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2+ hour, 56+ min ago   (610+ words) Yeast and gelatine could be used to create a sticky building material like concrete for constructing human habitats on Mars. How can frozen fruit help us build human habitats on Mars? Maybe not directly, but frozen fruit has sparked a…...

4+ hour, 24+ min ago   (88+ words) The history of human industry is, in many ways, a history of how we connect materials. From the earliest metallurgical bonds forged by ancient smiths to the complex multi-material assemblies of the modern era, the ability to join advanced or…...

6+ hour, 44+ min ago   (88+ words) Chemists at Shihezi University in China have shown that the shape of a catalyst can matter as much as its chemistry, reporting that hollow spherical alumina particles outperform conventional forms of the same material in a key industrial reaction. In…...

8+ hour, 6+ min ago   (522+ words) Packaging has always been a quiet workhorse of the modern food system. It tells us where a product came from, when it was made, what ingredients it contains, and how many calories it carries. But a team of researchers at…...

9+ hour, 4+ min ago   (548+ words) Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive pollutants on the planet, turning up everywhere from the deepest ocean trenches to the air we breathe....

11+ hour, 20+ min ago   (673+ words) Tannery wastewater is among the most stubborn industrial effluents to treat. Each tonne of processed hide can generate roughly 30 to 34 cubic meters of tannery industrial effluent, a complex cocktail of organic matter, ammonia, sulfides, oils, suspended solids, and chromium....

12+ hour, 5+ min ago   (86+ words) A pinch of graphene may be all it takes to make liquid crystals dramatically more useful in the infrared. Researchers in Japan have shown that dispersing tiny flakes of the one-atom-thick carbon material into a common nematic liquid crystal boosts…...

12+ hour, 5+ min ago   (563+ words) Researchers in Mexico have shown that the root-like network of the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, can bind a range of forestry and farm by-products into lightweight, biodegradable materials strong enough for protective packaging....

16+ hour, 42+ min ago   (714+ words) Heavy metal contamination of rivers, groundwater, and industrial effluents remains one of the most stubborn environmental problems of the modern era, and a new study from Brazilian researchers offers a fresh twist on an old idea: using polymer membranes to…...