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Filter “paper” made from titanium oxide nanowires is capable of trapping pathogens and destroying them with light. This discovery could be put to use in personal protective equipment, as well as in ventilation and air conditioning systems.

Researchers have used the Zhores supercomputer to perform a very precise sensitivity analysis to reveal crucial parameters for different crop yield in the chernozem region.

Scientists have unveiled a correlation between high blood lead levels in children and methylation of genes involved in haem synthesis and carcinogenesis, indicating a previously unknown mechanism for lead poisoning.

Plants recognize beneficial microbes and keep harmful ones out, which is important for healthy plant production and global food security. Scientists have now discovered how legumes use small, well-defined motifs in receptor proteins to read molecular signals produced by both pathogenic and symbiotic microbes.

As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology, Dan Luoma attended a scientific meeting in 1981 on Orcas Island in Washington. He went out one day of the meeting looking for the prized fungi and found a collection. Almost four decades later, with the help of new scientific technologies, Trappe and several other scientists confirmed that the truffle is unique

A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic, unknown ancestor.

Researchers warn that even with some lockdown measures staying in place to the end of 2021, without more structural interventions global temperatures will only be roughly 0.01°C lower than expected by 2030.

The enormous challenges that remain in doing clean-up on land in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011, even as some progress has been made offshore, are described.

As the world’s most popular shoe, flip-flops account for a troubling percentage of plastic waste that ends up in landfills, on seashores and in our oceans. Scientists have spent years working to resolve this problem, and now they have taken a step further toward accomplishing this mission.

Using CT scanning and examining fossils growth rings, scientists have been able to describe a new species of prehistoric sea creature. Tanystropheus hydroides, named after mythology's hydra, was a twenty-foot-long animal with a ten-foot-long neck.