The Super Steel project led by Professor Huang Mingxin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong (HKU) along with collaborators at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) have made an important breakthrough in its new super D&P steel (produced using a new deformed and partitioned method) to greatly enhance its fracture resistance while maintaining super strong in strength for advanced industrial applications.

PEC can convert sunlight into fuels, but often has stability problems. A team from Uni Hamburg, Desy & LMU developed a setup in the BMBF project Lucent to analyze changes of PEC materials in all length scales.

Researchers have developed a unique wooden robotic gripper that is driven by changes in moisture, temperature and lighting in the environment, thus leading to lower energy consumption. The gripper can also withstand high temperatures.

Plastic made from cane sugar also threatens the environment. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg have found that perch change their behaviour when exposed to so-called bioplastic.

Researchers have developed a low-cost and easy to produce wood tongue depressor that has the capability to check the levels of glucose and other biomarkers in the saliva. In the future, this solution may also help doctors to examine numerous health conditions.

Scientists at .NeuroRestore, Switzerland, report in Science that they have developed a gene therapy that was proven in mice to stimulate nerve regrowth across spinal cord injuries and guide nerves to reconnect to their natural targets to restore mobility.

Scent dogs may represent a cheaper, faster and more effective way to detect Covid-19, and could be a key tool in future pandemics, a new review of recent research suggests. The review, published in De Gruyter’s Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, found that scent dogs are as effective, or even more effective, than conventional Covid-19 tests such as RT-PCR.

As food costs continue to rise and a global food crisis looms on the horizon, it’s staggering to think that some 30-40 percent of America’s food supply ends up in landfills, mostly due to spoilage. At the same time, the World Health Organization estimates that foodborne illness from microbial contamination causes about 420,000 deaths per year worldwide.

Turning unused waste from food production into clean energy: Researchers at ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University Singapore are using chicken feathers to make fuel cells more cost-effective and sustainable.

For the first time, researchers at the University of Bayreuth have succeeded in synthesising a compound that contains aromatic rings of nitrogen atoms. The newly synthesised hexazine ring bears a striking resemblance to benzene, the aromatic carbon compound that is omnipresent in nature.