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Beating the dark current for safer X-ray imaging
Cascade engineering suppresses background noise to boost the sensitivity of X-ray imaging detectors
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Feeling the heat across the Middle East
Climate research highlights future warming scenarios for the Arabian Peninsula.
Chemical Engineering
Precision separations with perfect pores
Nanofiltration membranes with bespoke porous architectures enable ultra-selective and energy-efficient separation of complex mixtures.
Chemical Engineering
Net benefits for advanced materials design
Highly complex MOF materials made for sustainability applications such as carbon capture can be rationally devised using a new “merged nets” design framework
Mechanical Engineering
Turbulent flow shows surprise patterns that could help boost efficiency
High-speed cameras show that vortices generated in turbulent fluids are more predictable and less chaotic than expected.
Chemical Engineering
Catalyst generates hydrogen from toxic waste
Understanding hydrogen sulfide decomposition provides a design strategy to improve catalyst activity.
Marine Science
Giving coral reefs a fighting chance for survival
Coral reef restoration is a vital tool for protecting these vital ecosystems.
Material Science and Engineering
Atom-thin insulator grown into perfect films
Hexagons of hexagonal boron nitride join up to form two-dimensional insulator for next-generation electronic devices.
Bioscience
The theory of everything that wasn’t
A much-hyped new theory that purports to provide a universal explanation of natural phenomena merely repackages existing theoretical tools.
Material Science and Engineering
Organic solar cells stand the test of time
Multiple strategies for improving the stability of organic solar cells will be needed to make the technology more commercially viable.
Mechanical Engineering
Machine learning model identifies gas molecules
Automated system could be used to spot toxic emissions, air pollutants or diagnostic biomarkers.
Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences
Past and future drought patterns across the Arabian Peninsula
Higher temperatures have increased drought frequency and intensity over the last two decades, but the trend could be reversed in the next 20 years.
Applied Physics
2D materials could boost magnetic data storage
An unconventional 2D ferromagnet might enable smaller and more reliable devices for data storage.
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