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…
Microbial super strains for high quality biofertilizer
Approximately one third of all food produced, about 1.3 billion tons at an estimated value of US$1 trillion, is thrown away annually by consumers or is spoiled during harvesting and transportation. In 2020 alone, Malaysia…
Pseudospin in antiferromagnets: new perspectives for information technologies
A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim have discovered an exciting method for…
Study suggests waters will become more turbulent as…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass(MIT news office) -- Eddies are often seen as the weather of the ocean. Like large-scale circulations in the atmosphere, eddies swirl through the ocean as slow-moving sea cyclones, sweeping up nutrients and heat, and…
To the Brain, Reading computer code is not…
Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers CAMBRIDGE, MA (MITnews office)-- In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires…