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On June 16, Empa inaugurated its novel methanation plant. The move-MEGA research project is the first to demonstrate so-called sorption-enhanced methanation at pilot scale - a technology developed at Empa that makes the power-to-gas process more flexible and robust.

To you, it might just look like leftovers from your morning cup of joe. But a University of Calgary researcher says this staple of many morning routines is helping track toxins in drinking water.

"Matrix First" is a new approach to the design and production of composite materials, developed for applications in the catalytic, aerospace, and energy fields-where optimizing the thermo-mechanical, chemical, and structural properties of materials is essential.

Research Team 2 at the Ilmenau School of Green Electronics (ISGE) is working on polymers as a sustainable alternative to limited raw materials in microelectronics.

Battery electrodes thicken as a result of the accelerated transport of lithium ions via metal fleeces, making them particularly efficient and cost-effective To the point: Lithium-ion batteries: Elect

The Los Angeles region has some of the most polluted air in the United States, failing to meet standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency for the last decade. Now, Caltech researchers have quantified the levels of a component of smog called ammonium nitrate, a molecule that has been notoriously difficult to measure, and have found that there is much more of it than previously calculated, especially on the most polluted days.

Organoids are a promising breakthrough that scientists have been exploring over the past 15 years. These three-dimensional tissue cultures grown from human stem cells stand to revolutionize some aspects of biomedical research, but they won't do away entirely with the need for animal testing.

Biotech The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically.

A study led by the University of Bonn has illuminated the mechanism by which this marine creature produces the detergent The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases.

From biomolecules to legal aspects: the BIOSTORE project features collaborations from a range of disciplines Thinking further afield in battery research: the scientists working on the BIOSTORE projec

A study conducted by CNRS 1 researchers describes a new method of recycling silicone waste (caulk, sealants, gels, adhesives, cosmetics, etc.

If Quebecers are now aware of the health risks of perand polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), it's largely thanks to the work of UdeM's muckraking environmental chemistry professor.

Five research projects by researchers from Radboud University have received a grant in the new round of the Open Competition Domain Science-M programme.

McGill researchers have developed an AI-powered method to verify the origin of honey, ensuring that what's on the label matches what's in the jar.

A waste gum produced by trees found in India could be the key to unlocking a new generation of better-performing, more eco-friendly supercapacitors, researchers say. Scientists from universities in Scotland, South Korea and India are behind the development, which harnesses the unique properties of the otherwise useless tree gum to prevent supercapacitors from degrading over tens of thousands of charging cycles.

From social media to AI, online technologies are changing too fast for the scientific infrastructure used to gauge its public health harms, say two leaders in the field.

Physiologists at Jena University Hospital have used single-channel measurements to investigate the conductivity of pacemaker ion channels, which control the rhythmic activity of nerve or heart muscle cells.

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: The increasing electrification of the chemical industry and the transport sector is increasing the global demand for sustainable and regionally available starting materials for electrochemical energy storage systems.

FMI researchers have shed light on how intestinal organoids form crypts, the pockets that house stem cells for gut regeneration and long-term stability.

On World Water Day , let's talk about the "forever chemicals" that made a splash when the Forever Pollution Project published the map of nearly 23,000 contaminated sites all'over Europe and again whe

In a new study, business chemists at the University of Münster assess the costs of hydrogen-powered cargo ships Cargo transport is responsible for an enormous carbon footprint.

Increasing energy demands and problems associated with burning fossil fuels have heightened interest in more sustainable energy sources, such as sunlight.

Polymers are everywhere in modern life, from cars to mobile phones, but their ubiquity comes at a steep cost.

Lithium can be harvested efficiently from brines thanks to an innovative membrane developed at Imperial.

A power grid that is becoming ever more overloaded, melting glaciers threatening our freshwater supply, and an increasing demand for resources like lithium, uranium, and cobalt.

Millions of different organic compounds are found in the soil and in bodies of water. New methods are making it possible to analyse these molecules more accurately than ever before - and to decipher their role in the functioning of ecosystems and species communities. In a scientific journal, a research team from Eawag and University of Zurich therefore calls for a new "ecology of molecules".