Researchers in Japan say they have found a way to recycle coloured plastics without losing quality — a breakthrough that could help tackle growing waste problems. Packaging often uses bright colours to attract buyers, but…
High-speed atomic force microscopy takes on intrinsically disordered…
Kanazawa University’s pioneering high-speed atomic force microscope technology has now shed light on the structure and dynamics of some of life’s most ubiquitous and inscrutable molecules – intrinsically disordered proteins. The study is reported in…
Good News for World’s Most Endangered Turtle
HA NOI, Viet Nam--The Ha Noi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in collaboration with the Asian Turtle Program (ATP) of Indo-Myanmar Conservation (IMC) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have made dramatic progress to…
Looking for dark matter near neutron stars
In the 1970s, physicists uncovered a problem with the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes three of the four fundamental forces of nature (electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions; the fourth is gravity). They…
How to communicate with students about COVID-19, according…
By Eric Hamilton As universities look to welcome students back for another pandemic-era semester, they can turn to new insights from the National Academy of Sciences backed by research on how to effectively communicate about…