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A special combination of two extraordinary nanomaterials successfully results in a new hybrid product capable of turning light into electricity, and vice-versa, faster than conventional materials.

The environmental impacts of vegans are around a third of those with high-meat diets, a new study has found. The researchers also saw a 30% difference between high- and low-meat diets for most of the measures of environmental harm.

Using the pangolin as a model, researchers have developed a flexible medical robot made of soft and hard components that, just like the animal, can become a sphere in the blink of an eye. It can also emit heat when needed.

A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape—perhaps covered by trees and roaming woolly mammoths—in the recent geologic past, new research shows.

Plant geneticists have identified a mutation in a gene that causes the “weeping” architecture – branches growing downwards – in apple trees, a finding that could improve orchard fruit production.

Tourists acting as citizen scientists have helped a research team detect microplastics on remote Arctic beaches, revealing concentrated areas of plastic pollution.

Researchers demonstrate how a new catalyst can remove methane from engine exhaust at both the lower temperatures where engines start up ­­­and the higher temperatures where they operate most efficiently.

Priming crop plants with a microbe sourced from the roots of desert plants could be a powerful tool to boost crop plant's resilience to drought.

Plastic waste is a problem on our beaches. Hence, it is largely removed in a coordinated manner within a few weeks. However, it can litter other coasts of the world for many months to years due to unregulated waste disposal.

A team of chemists has developed a new method for generating fluorochemicals without using hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas.