University of Bonn and Breakthrough Institute: Genetically modified crops in Europe could reduce greenhouse gas emissionsThe use of genetically modified (GM) crops in agriculture remains contentious, especially in Europe. According to surveys, many people fear that these could have negative effects for human health and the environment. Howeve...

Study by the University of Bonn and the TU Darmstadt suggests errors in the interpretation of older measurementsA few years ago, a novel measurement technique showed that protons are probably smaller than had been assumed since the 1990s. The discrepancy surprised the scientific community; some researchers even believed that the Standard Model of p...

That glass can have a significant impact on a building's insulation is well known – just ask anyone that has ever sat through a pitch from a double-glazing salesman.But the material could soon find a surprising new use in 3D-printed buildings after researchers demonstrated that concrete made with ground-up recycled glass has significantly better in...

Seaford Head, a nationally important heritage site at increasing risk of coastal erosion related to accelerating climate change, is being investigated and recorded under a new initiative involving Archaeology South-East, part of UCL's Institute of Archaeology.Improved understanding is a necessary first step in the process of managing the loss of an...

- £1.6m awarded to Aston University to develop new optical frequency technology- Project will target applications of new technology such as food industry, agri-tech and telecommunications- Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies will lead the new UKRI-funded researchAston University is heading up a European collaboration that will explore new opti...

The Maritime Engineering Laboratory (LIM) of the UPC is leading a European project to restore the coast and adapt it to climate change. It is a shock plan for the next four years funded by the European Union under the European Green Deal. Pilot projects will be carried out on the Ebro Delta and other locations in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, the ...

 The peculiar characteristics of Uranus' moons have been a topic of debate in astronomy for decades. Using of state-of-the-art supercomputing and interdisciplinary expertise, researchers of the University of Zurich, who are part of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, have proposed a detailed answer in a new study.There is on...

Groundwater is a vital resource for humans and ecosystems. Submarine groundwater discharge is a process by which water exits coastal aquifers and enters the ocean. This can be terrestrial freshwater or salty seawater that intruded into the porous aquifer at the ocean's edge. While precipitation and sea level drive coastal groundwater levels, it is ...

 New processing methods developed by MIT researchers could help ease looming shortages of the essential metals that power everything from phones to automotive batteries, by making it easier to separate these rare metals from mining ores and recycled materials.Selective adjustments within a chemical process called sulfidation allowed professor ...

The noise created by the Earth's movements has been used to build up a detailed picture of the geological conditions beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet and the impact on ice flow, in new research led by Swansea University.The team studied Rayleigh waves – seismic waves generated by movements such as earthquakes – to produce high-resolution images of t...

Krypton from the Earth's mantle, collected from geologic hot spots in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, reveals a clearer picture of how our planet formed, according to new research from the University of California, Davis.The different isotopes of krypton are chemical fingerprints for scientists sleuthing out the ingredients that made the Earth, ...

 Rapidly thawing Arctic permafrost has the potential to release radioactive waste from cold war nuclear submarines and reactors, antibiotic resistant bacteria and potentially undiscovered viruses, an Aberystwyth University researcher has jointly found.Writing in Nature Climate Change, Dr Arwyn Edwards, from the Institute of Biological, Environ...

 The German Research Foun­da­tion (DFG) announced a further renewal of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC)/Trans­re­gio 142, "Tailor-made nonlinear photonics: From fundamental concepts to functional structures". This collaborative proj­ect at Pa­der­bornUni­ver­sity and TU Dort­mundUni­ver­sity focuses on the basic principles of photonics ...

Despite the advancement of vaccines as a protective measure, the emergence of newly evolved strains of Covid mean that its threat to public health continues, so finding other suitable treatments remains a priority.Professor Milan Radosavljevic, Vice-Principal of Research, Innovation and EngagementNew antiviral drugs – including Covid treatments – c...

 The human genome can be thought of as a massive library, containing over 20,000 different "instruction manuals": your genes. For example, there are genes which contain information to build a brain cell, a skin cell, a white blood cell, and so on. There are even genes that contain information about regulating the genome itself—like books that ...

 Researchers at the University of Adelaide's Adelaide Law School are surveying Murray Darling Basin stakeholders about their beliefs regarding water trading and ownership of water rights to help inform future policy."There has been much consultation about the legal rights regarding water allocation and ownership but very little research has be...

In the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California, MARUM researchers detected hydrocarbon gas patterns that could not have been generated by known formation pathways. They were able to simulate the hydrocarbon formation in the laboratory. Their study has now been published.Hydrocarbons, which are an essential component of crude oil and natural gas, fo...

 - Innovative Far-UVC light technology could play a critical role in the fight against Covid-19, destroying the virus at a genetic level and reducing the risk of new variants emerging- Lab testing by Professor Michael Themis at Brunel University London used a new and highly sensitive detection technique to measure destruction of SARS-CoV-2 on ...

 Chemical reactions can be controlled using coloured light by means of an intelligent photocatalyst developed by researchers at the Chair of Physical Chemistry at FAU and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. The colour of the light determines which programmed chemical reactions are triggered by the photocatalyst. The researcher...

 An international team of astrophysicists has reported the discovery of a structure, or 'protocluster', dating from the most active epoch of the Universe ten billion years ago, and which is expected to develop into a galaxy supercluster. The team includes scientists* from Université Paris-Saclay, the French National Centre for Scientific Resea...