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Elsevier Foundation Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge 2026: turning waste into climate action
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (670+ words) The winners of the Elsevier Foundation Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge have been announced at the 10 th Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference in Dresden, Germany. The two winning projects deliver innovative, concrete and scalable responses to climate change. Selected from 285 proposals,…...
Improving X-ray resolution with less radiation
6+ hour, 56+ min ago (100+ words) A moldable glass screen could be used in applications ranging from underwater scans to more comfortable mammograms. image: The inside of this memory card (left) is viewed in an X-ray image (right) captured with a new resolution-boosting glassscreen. view more…...
Two Committee members elected as Fellows of the Royal Society
8+ hour, 34+ min ago (83+ words) Professor Hayley Fowler and Professor Piers Forster have been'elected'Fellows of the Royal Society. Professor Fowler has served on the Adaptation Committee since February 2025, and Professor Forster has been a member of the Mitigation Committee since December 2018.' Fellowship of the Royal…...
New silk-based supermaterial is almost as strong as Kevlar
11+ hour, 39+ min ago (416+ words) Thomas Angus / Imperial College London The material also has optical transparency and is biodegradable, and could be used in the future for temporary implants or bioengineering devices. A new published in Nature Sustainability reports the creation of a new silk-based…...
Two Manchester Professors elected to prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society
9+ hour, 6+ min ago (212+ words) Two "outstanding researchers" from The University of Manchester have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences. Professor Chris Parkes, an experimental particle physicist'at the University, and Professor Jeff Forshaw, a theoretical particle…...
A breakthrough year for batteries in Australia but solar and wind lag
20+ hour, 9+ min ago (897+ words) Australia is now the third-largest utility-scale battery market in the world, behind China and the US, but structural barriers are impeding i__nvestment in big solar and wind projects. The Clean Energy Council's Clean Energy Australia 2026 report, published 26 May 2026, details a "breakthrough…...
New Seaweed Plastic Developed to Package Food
11+ hour, 58+ min ago (406+ words) Food could be wrapped in packaging made from seaweed instead of artificial plastic in the future, thanks to new research. In a paper published in the journal Algal Research, academics at Aberystwyth University's Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences…...
NASA discovers lava-like material that could help astronauts 'live off the land' on the Moon
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (661+ words) starlust. org NASA discovers lava-like material that could help astronauts 'live off the land' on the Moon At NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, a research team converted a mixture of simulated Moon dust and scandium oxide into something that…...
Singapore developes 10nm semi window transparent solar cell
13+ hour, 24+ min ago (237+ words) In a breakthrough for urban renewable energy, scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore have developed ultra-thin, semi-transparent solar cells that can transform ordinary building windows and glass facades into active electricity generators. Published in the scientific journal ACS Energy…...
Science's Self-Correction Mechanism Highlighted in May 27, 2026, Commentary
10+ hour, 39+ min ago (113+ words) geneonline. com Science's Self-Correction Mechanism Highlighted in May 27, 2026, Commentary Jonathan Jackson reported on the inherent resilience of science, highlighting its self-correcting nature. The article suggests that science is capable of overcoming challenges and maintaining its integrity. Jackson's commentary, published on…...