Antimicrobial resistance is becoming a global burden in human health and food production, so affordable new materials are needed to overcome this growing problem.

To answer the call, a multidisciplinary research team led by Flinders University with UK experts has discovered a novel solution for safe and effective use in antimicrobial and antifungal applications.

Massive blooms of Sargassum seaweed that have inundated coastlines across the Atlantic since 2011 likely originate off the coast of West Africa—forming years before they are visible and overturning long-standing assumptions about where these events begin.

Few concepts in physics are as familiar, yet as enigmatic, as time. In Einstein’s theory of relativity, time is not absolute: its passage depends on motion and gravity. But when combined with quantum physics, this relativistic form of time becomes even more counterintuitive. According to quantum theory, the flow of time itself may exist in a genuine quantum superposition, ticking faster and slower at the same time. A new paper by physicists at Stevens Institute of Technology shows that this striking possibility may soon be tested in real life. 

At least seven individuals who lived about 100,000 years ago: the study—coordinated by researchers from the University of Bologna—is based on the analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA from eight teeth found in the Stajnia Cave in Poland