Chemistry & Physics
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Where there’s fire, there’s smoke
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesPeer-Reviewed Publication
A new online platform, SMRT-Flames, can identify areas in need of land management in order to reduce future smoke exposures from uncontrolled fires. While most wildfire tools predict fire risk, SMRT-Flames explicitly considers smoke exposure across populations
- Journal
- Environmental Science & Technology
Tina Rost receives CAREER award to explore a new class of modern materials
Virginia TechGrant and Award Announcement
Platform feedstock chemicals from global warming gas: a new paradigm in carbon utilization
Cactus CommunicationsPeer-Reviewed Publication
In a bold stride toward carbon neutrality, seven researchers from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea, unveil a novel catalytic reaction which selectively produces value-added alcohols from CO2 using electrochemical conversion. The cutting-edge technology enables mass production of high value-added feedstock chemicals with world-class efficiency (four times higher efficiency than those achieved till date)—laying the groundwork for a zero-carbon future.
- Journal
- Nature Catalysis
European high school students emerge from isolation after groundbreaking explore analog space exploration mission
International Science Council Committee on Space ResearchBusiness Announcement
MONSARAZ, PORTUGAL – 30 June 2025 – The silence was broken by cheers and the snap of camera shutters as nine European high school students stepped out of a simulated Mars environment in Portugal, successfully completing the first-of-its-kind EXPLORE analog mission. From 23 to 27 June 2025, these students from Austria, Greece, and Portugal traded their everyday lives for a challenging five-day immersion in an isolated, Mars-like landscape near Monsaraz, in the wilds of the Alentejo province.
Breakthrough resins speed up 3D printing with built-in material control
University of Texas at AustinPeer-Reviewed Publication
A fast, precise new 3D printing advance samlessly merges soft and hard properties into a single object using different colors of light. The breakthrough technology could pave the way for next-generation prosthetics, flexible medical devices and stretchable electronics that move naturally with the body, much like a human joint or ligament.
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- Nature Materials
- Funder
- U.S. Department of Defense, Welch Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Elaborate search for a new force
ETH ZurichPeer-Reviewed Publication
In an international collaboration, researchers at ETH are searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model and for a particle that could explain dark matter.
The researchers are carrying out highly precise measurements on calcium isotopes, which they trap in an ion trap.
The combined study programme does not find evidence for new physics, but it sets limits on a hypothetical particle that could carry a force between neutrons and electrons.
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters