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Marine Science
Smart skin for flexible monitoring
An electronic tag that stretches and flexes while it records location and environmental data can monitor marine animals in their natural habitat.
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Marine Science
An electronic tag that stretches and flexes while it records location and environmental data can monitor marine animals in their natural habitat.
Earth Science and Engineering
Color changes in the northern Red Sea indicate rising sea temperatures could significantly impact tropical marine ecosystems.
Chemistry
Custom-made gas-sensing material could lead to inexpensive devices for real-time air-quality analysis.
Electrical Engineering
Precise control of the atomic structure of gallium oxide layers improves the development of high-power electronic devices.
Marine Science
Turbulence and nutrient availability drive changes in Red Sea microbes.
Electrical Engineering
Ultrathin films curve up into long, light and cost-effective heat-harvesting tubes for high-power generation.
Material Science and Engineering
Perovskite particles could improve the performance of solar cells and light-emitting diodes via a simple process to stabilize the nanocrystal surface.
Bioscience
A new malaria metabolic model may uncover better ways to treat a highly deadly disease.
Chemistry
A porous cerium-based coating boosts the durability of oxygen-forming catalysts while maintaining their inherent water-splitting activity.
Electrical Engineering
An innovative chemical reactor for depositing semiconductors at very high temperatures draws on the strength of Saudi Arabia’s chemical industry.
Chemistry
A risk-based optimization scheme boosts confidence and profitability for future mixed-technology power plants.
Material Science and Engineering
Standalone power modules that harvest and convert vibrations from their surroundings into electricity could soon fuel future microsystems.
Electrical Engineering
A new ink containing iron oxide nanoparticles can be turned into fully printed and versatile components for cellular networks.
Environmental Science and Engineering
A grimy layer on wastewater filters could slow the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Statistics
Faster computations will allow researchers to see the finer details of brain activity in functional brain imaging.
Mechanical Engineering
A technique modeling the combustion characteristics of gasoline blended with biofuels for cleaner and more efficient fuels.
Material Science and Engineering
New method offers a means of efficient and high-throughput technique to study the structure of DNA.
Electrical Engineering
Unveiling new strategies to improve future wireless underwater sensing networks for marine research and communication.
Bioscience
Understanding how bacteria help convert glacier bedrock into soil could help address desertification.
Electrical Engineering
A simple chemical surface treatment improves the performance of nanowire ultraviolet light-emitting diodes.
Material Science and Engineering
Materials that normally become damaged inside electron microscopes can now be imaged with atom-scale resolution.
Bioscience
Corals living in highly saline waters may be more tolerant to rising water temperatures.
Material Science and Engineering
A technique of microwave synthesis of layered oxides enables high-capacity aqueous zinc-ion batteries.
Statistics
More accurate statistical modeling of extreme weather will improve forecasting and disaster mitigation.
Statistics
A technique that uses the power of computing could solve statistical problems cheaper and faster than current methods.
Bioscience
Seagrass meadows play a pivotal role in protecting coasts against rising sea levels.
Chemistry
Nanomaterial coating enables efficient delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into the cell.
Plant Science
Genetic analyses of a desert bacterium show it could help to improve crop production in arid lands.
Electrical Engineering
A metal-organic framework that can take up twice its weight in water and then release it when humidity falls.
Electrical Engineering
Innovative diode design uses ultrafast quantum tunneling to harvest infrared energy from the environment.
Electrical Engineering
Ultrathin, rigid silicon segments that are wired through interdigitated metal contacts produce ultraflexible high-performance solar cells.
Bioscience
A comparison of the genomes of two species of coral demonstrates unexpected genetic diversity.
Statistics
A method to visualize hidden statistical structure helps make sense of environmental data.
Bioscience
The protein CD34 is predominantly regarded as a marker of blood-forming stem cells but it helps with migration to the bone marrow too.
Electrical Engineering
Fine tuning the composition of nitride alloys can further the development of optical and electronic interface devices.
Bioscience
Genomes of single microbial cells isolated from the Red Sea could yield a goldmine for biotechnology.
Electrical Engineering
Wavy transistors that vertically gain width without increasing their on-chip footprint could drive future flexible displays.
Earth Science and Engineering
A model incorporating the physics of ruptures provides valuable information about human-induced earthquakes.
Statistics
A new statistical technique could be used to more accurately locate global wind resources.
Mechanical Engineering
Theoretical simulations reveal how subtle changes in friction on an object’s surface can have a large effect on drag.
Marine Science
The Red Sea has relatively low amounts of floating plastic debris in its surface waters due to fewer sources or faster removal.
Statistics
Coordinated robot swarms can achieve amazing feats, but even a single faulty unit can have serious consequences.
Chemical Engineering
Synchrotron study reveals oxygen’s influence on the chemistry that surrounds us.
Marine Science
Jumping genes could make an alga, and its coral host, more tolerant to warming sea temperatures.
Electrical Engineering
An easy and reliable assembly approach, inspired by building blocks, challenges the current fabrication of electronic systems.
Marine Science
Some species of fish have special adaptive mechanisms that could improve their chances of surviving the greenhouse effect.
Mechanical Engineering
Creating teardrop-like gas cavities around metal spheres enables practically friction-free travel through liquids.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Trapping molecules on custom-designed porous surfaces becomes easier with a new model that unifies previous theories of adsorption.
Mechanical Engineering
Silicon microelectronics and biomedical fields could benefit from a safe and cost-effective way to synthesize nanoparticles.
Electrical Engineering
High-speed communication systems based on ultraviolet radiation are now in sight.
Material Science and Engineering
Large-area, two-dimensional semiconductors wired through transparent oxide conductors produce high-performance see-through electronics.
Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences
A loudspeaker design could allow small devices to produce powerful low-frequency sounds.
Mechanical Engineering
Simple two-component mixtures are good surrogates for studying the ignition properties of next-generation gasolines.
Chemical Engineering
Cone-shaped sugar structures can be connected together to form selectively porous nanofiltration membranes.
Earth Science and Engineering
Physicists are playing unexpected roles in meeting future global energy challenges by modeling technologies such as fracking.
Earth Science and Engineering
Study design allows more rigorous evaluation of complex healthcare interventions.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Treating wastewater with solar irradiation shows promise in reducing two E. coli strains but a resilient strain persists.
Marine Science
Efficiency gains come from tuning the properties of semiconducting materials by combining layers of different composition.
Material Science and Engineering
A mild post-fabrication doping approach can boost the solar conversion of quantum dot-based photovoltaic cells.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Promising electrochemical technologies for cleaning wastewater are boosted by discovery of extremophilic microbes in the Red Sea.
Electrical Engineering
A method for creating nanoparticles without using solvents could lead to environmentally friendly electronics.
Statistics
Study of the mismatch between spatial environmental data and a commonly used statistical analysis suggests simpler statistics are sufficient in many cases.
Marine Science
The world’s warmest sea is heating up faster than the global average, which could challenge the ability of the Red Sea’s organisms to cope.
Statistics
A powerful statistical tool could significantly reduce the burden of analyzing very large datasets.
Electrical Engineering
Redesigned lithium-ion batteries could help improve the efficiency of orthodontic devices.
Computer Science
A new computational framework marries ideas from computer graphics with civil engineering to reduce times and costs of constructing frame-based structures.
Marine Science
A combination of morphological and molecular approaches gives researchers a first glimpse of Red Sea larval fish communities.
Electrical Engineering
The side-by-side deposition of atomically flat semiconductor sheets enhances solar cell conversion efficiency.
Earth Science and Engineering
Wind turbines suspended high in the sky have potential as an alternative power source for Saudi Arabia.
Marine Science
Microbes are dispersed widely over the oceans with islands acting as stepping-stones to help transport of land-based organisms.
Statistics
A statistical technique for modeling large datasets improves interpretation of climate and environmental data.
Material Science and Engineering
A perovskite crystal’s powerful light-emitting capabilities could be due to missing atoms in its structure.
Marine Science
Symbiotic giant bacteria enable Red Sea surgeonfish to specialize their diets.
Electrical Engineering
The molten surface of a sodium-based material could assist the direct conversion of methane to useful building blocks.
Marine Science
Satellite imagery shows how currents shape the Red Sea ecosystem.
Mechanical Engineering
A vibration-driven logic gate could form the basis for the next generation of efficient, low-power computers.
Material Science and Engineering
A novel type of electronic component made from a blend of polymer materials could enable more effective circuitry.
Material Science and Engineering
New evidence of surface-initiated crystallization may improve the efficiency of printable photovoltaic materials.
Mechanical Engineering
Insight into the thermal decomposition of a potential fuel additive shows it could promote cleaner and more efficient combustion.
Material Science and Engineering
Simple chemicals called glycol ethers help make better perovskite thin films for solar cells.
Electrical Engineering
An underwater wireless optical communications system for streaming high-quality, live video.
Mechanical Engineering
New 3D visualizations that reveal how flames respond to electric fields could help improve combustion efficiency and reduce pollution.
Statistics
A new statistical approach for environmental measurements lets the data determine how to model extreme events.
Chemistry
Introducing asymmetry across the two sides of atomically thin materials brings new opportunities in semiconductors.
Chemistry
Photosensitive perovskites change shape when exposed to light.
Electrical Engineering
Metallic nanostructures that slow down light dramatically can triple the efficiency of solar-based hydrogen fuel generation.
Marine Science
When faced with high salinity, the tiny plant cells within coral tissue alter their metabolites to better cope with stress.
Mechanical Engineering
Smartphones put state-of-the-art 3D particle tracking in the hands of the masses.
Electrical Engineering
A faster approach for computer detection of moving objects in video takes us a step closer to mimicking the reflexive detection ability of the animal visual system.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Surface wettability has little effect on atmospheric water gathering, but edge structure is crucial.
Material Science and Engineering
Flatter materials have fewer imperfections, which makes for better solar cells and light sensors.
Bioscience
Herbal remedy plants native to Saudi Arabia are shown to have potential as treatments for cancer.
Chemistry
Dual-functioning MOF material autonomously ensures indoor humidity is just right.
Earth Science and Engineering
Modeling leads to a better understanding of the role El Niño plays in increasing rainfall along the coast of the Red Sea.
Environmental Science and Engineering
A nature-based technique paves the way for cheaper and environmentally friendly liquid-repellent materials.
Plant Science
Plants can reprogram their genetic material to mount a defensive response against pathogens, which may have applications for agriculture.
Electrical Engineering
3D-printed, disposable sensors capable of detecting noxious gases and changes in temperature and humidity could revolutionize environmental monitoring.
Electrical Engineering
Synchronized emissions from innovative on-chip lasers create possibilities for inexpensive artificial neural networks.
Statistics
A systematic approach to selecting and configuring statistical models improves predictions of extreme events.
Chemistry
Spiky-shaped additives help antimicrobial coatings sense and inhibit bacteria growth on dental devices.