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Latest articles

16 Jan 2025

Bioscience

How a multitasking protein keeps the body’s clock in sync

EZH1 steadies gene-reading machinery and adjusts DNA packaging, ensuring genes activate on time to maintain 24-hour rhythms.

15 Jan 2025

Computer Science

AI tool maps hidden links between diseases

Understanding how diseases trigger one another could lead to better treatments, prevention strategies and improved genetic risk prediction.

13 Jan 2025

Chemistry

Maximizing methane

Rather than just burning natural gas as a fuel, a mild new method could turn it into a valuable chemical commodity.

9 Jan 2025

Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Accounting for extreme weather to boost energy system reliability

A computer model that factors in extreme weather events offers insights to improve the design of NEOM’s integrated renewable power, water and heating sectors.

26 Dec 2024

Chemistry

Beating the dark current for safer X-ray imaging

Cascade engineering suppresses background noise to boost the sensitivity of X-ray imaging detectors.

19 Dec 2024

Earth Science and Engineering

Feeling the heat across the Middle East

Climate research highlights future warming scenarios for the Arabian Peninsula.

15 Dec 2024

Chemical Engineering

Precision separations with perfect pores

Nanofiltration membranes with bespoke porous architectures enable ultra-selective and energy-efficient separation of complex mixtures.

11 Dec 2024

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

8 Dec 2024

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.

4 Dec 2024

Chemical Engineering

Catalyst generates hydrogen from toxic waste

Understanding hydrogen sulfide decomposition provides a design strategy to improve catalyst activity.

1 Dec 2024

Marine Science

Giving coral reefs a fighting chance for survival

Coral reef restoration is a vital tool for protecting these vital ecosystems.

27 Nov 2024

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.

24 Nov 2024

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.

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Latest videos

19 Feb 2024

Bioengineering

Giving voice to the voiceless through assistive technology

Artificial skin coupled with sensors and machine learning technology allows people with voice disorders to communicate using soundless mouth movements.

10 Oct 2023

Bioengineering

A new approach to rare disease diagnosis

An innovative AI-based tool leverages varied symptom descriptions, along with evidence from the scientific literature and genomic datasets, to pinpoint disease-associated gene variants.