Agilent Technologies announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art facility for spectroscopy research and development at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, UK.

Researchers have developed a new metasurface-based antenna that represents an important step toward making it practical to harvest energy from radio waves, such as the ones used in cell phone networks or Bluetooth connections. This technology could potentially provide wireless power to sensors, LEDs and other simple devices with low energy requirements.

A Norwegian-German collaboration has developed a new, rapid monitoring system for checking indoor air quality in the space station, 400 km above the Earth.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has elected Ruby Chandy to its board of directors. She has previously worked for various leading companies such as Dow Chemical Company, Rohm, Haas Corporation, DuPont de Nemours, Flowserve Corporation and Pall Corporation.

Use of saline water to irrigate crops would bolster food security for many arid countries; however, this has not been possible due to the detrimental effects of salt on plants. Now, researchers at Kaust, along with scientists in Egypt, have shown that saline irrigation of tomato is possible with the help of a beneficial desert root fungus.

An international team of scientists including Rutgers researchers has found that modern rates of sea level rise began emerging in 1863 as the Industrial Age intensified, coinciding with evidence for early ocean warming and glacier melt.

UCSC chemists developed a simple method to make aluminum nanoparticles that split water and generate hydrogen gas rapidly under ambient conditions.

Low-cost jelly-like materials, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can sense strain, temperature and humidity. And unlike earlier self-healing robots, they can also partially repair themselves at room temperature.

Viking Pump company announced an investment of $ 1.75 million to expand their full-service research and testing laboratory.

Under a 15-year strategic collaboration agreement signed between Moderna and Thermo Fisher Scientific, both the firms will work together to ensure large-scale manufacturing of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, and other investigational mRNA drugs in the USA.