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Tag: Nanotechnology

Brewery waste can be repurposed to make nanoparticles that can fight bacteria

Alcina Johnson Sudagar, Washington University in St. Louis Modern beer production is a US$117 billion business in the United...

Quantum dots are part of a revolution in engineering atoms in...

Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry isn’t the first Nobel awarded for research in...

Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices

Julio M. D'Arcy, Washington University in St Louis The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea In my synthetic chemistry lab,...

A hangover pill? Tests on drunk mice show promise

Yunfeng Lu, University of California, Los Angeles “Civilization begins with distillation,” said William Faulkner, a writer and drinker. Although our thirst for alcohol dates back...

EXPLORING NATURE

How climate finance to help poor countries became a global shell...

Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences When Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean in October...
A fisherman looks at the Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Cilegon, Indonesia, in 2023. Ronald Siagian/AFP via Getty Images

Can the world quit coal?