Graphite nanoplatelets integrated into plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections, killing 99.99 % of bacteria which try to attach – a cheap and viable potential solution to a problem which affects millions, costs huge amounts of time and money, and accelerates antibiotic resistance. This is according to research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in the journal Small.

MIT researchers have developed a bubble-capturing surface of specially textured mesh which proves to be an asset in industrial processes where foamy bubbles occupy significant space and in some cases also damage living cells.

The aim of the European Plastics Pact is to improve the use of plastics as well as its recycling. Signatories of this pact are expected to develop new techniques and approaches, share knowledge, harmonise guidelines and standards, and reduce current barriers for this purpose.

Drop collision is integral to technology such as 3D printing and spray cooling of next-generation electronics. A discovery by researchers at the University of Warwick allows to make the design and engineering of future droplet technologies more precise and efficient.

Fifteen months after the successful landing of the Nasa Insight mission on Mars, first scientific analyses of ETH Zurich researchers and their partners reveal that the planet is seismically active. The recorded data enables to better constrain the interior of Mars, the primary goal of the Insight mission.

Plant based food and feed can contain toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) due to co-harvesting of weeds that contain PAs. Experts therefore recommend testing crops known to co-exist with PA containing weeds before use in food or feed.

An international study has successfully identified an optimal material for capturing CO2. The work was recently published in Nature.

A team of MIT chemists has discovered the structure of a key influenza protein. Their finding could help researchers design drugs that block the protein and prevent the virus from spreading.

Actually a team of Austrian scientists had been looking for something completely different, but they found a previously unknown quasi-particle: A bound state of two electrons, two holes and light. The so-called pi-ton has been discovered and verified by computer simulations.

Carbon dioxide emissions are harmful for the environment as well as for animals such as polar bears whose habitats i.e. sea ice is being melted away by the release of this dangerous gas. A dedicated group of polar bear researchers have calculated and revealed how much summer sea ice is melted per metric tonne of CO2 emissions discharged into the atmosphere.