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“#Purifying water with the help of wood, bacteria and the sun” A solar steam generator has an upper layer (black) of light-absorbing carbon nanotubes, a middle layer (grey) of heat-insulating glass bubbles, and a bottom layer (brown) of water-transporting wood. Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01088 According to the United Nations, about one-fifth…
“#Graphene: It is all about the toppings” Indium oxide on a graphene layer. Credit: Vienna University of Technology Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms. Exceptional electronic, thermal, mechanical, and optical properties have made graphene one of the most studied materials at the moment. For many applications in electronics and energy technology, however,…
“#Tobacco budworm moths have receptors in their eggs, laying organs that detect odorants” Credit: CC0 Public Domain When most insects reproduce, they lay eggs that hatch into juveniles known as larvae. To provide good sources of food for the larvae, the adult insects have to carefully select where to lay the eggs. Host plants produce…
“#Novel major locus regulates beak evolution of ground tit” Fig. Comparison of beak morphology across 14 parid species. Credit: IOZ Classical quantitative genetics has found that most phenotypes are polygenic traits. Under this polygenic model, natural selection often acts on many loci simultaneously, resulting in the combination of a few loci with major effects and…
“#Shock waves from stellar explosions take preferential direction” Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant. Credit: public domain In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team led by researchers at École Polytechnique have paved the way to unraveling the mystery as to why many supernova remnants that we observe from Earth are axisymmetric (elongated along…
“#Detecting hidden nanostructures by converting light into sound” A femtosecond pump laser ‘knocks’ at the opaque material (1), causing a high frequency acoustic wave to travel through the layers (2) until it reaches the buried grating lines. The acoustic waves are reflected at the grating and travel back (3) as a grating shaped wave. When…
“#Researchers develop a unique method for creating powder composites” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists from South Ural State University have developed a new method for creating powder metal composites. The method can reduce waste and improve the quality of electrical products and, as a result, increase the economic efficiency of production by 30%. The study…
“#Spider silk made by photosynthetic bacteria” Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads made from silk proteins, which can be used to manufacture useful materials. Researchers succeeded in producing the spider silk using photosynthetic bacteria. Credit: RIKEN Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads called draglines that are made from silk proteins. Although they can…
“#Researchers discover a novel mechanism regulating planar cell polarity” Transport vehicles carrying Frizzled-6. Credit: HKUST Planar cell polarity (PCP), a process in which the epithelial tissues are polarized within the plane of the epithelium, plays an important role in development and organ function. Defects in PCP are associated with a variety of human diseases including…
“#Milk lipids follow the evolution of mammals” Skoltech scientists conducted a study of milk lipids and described the unique features of human breast milk as compared to bovids, pigs, and closely related primates. Their findings could be indicative of co-evolution of milk composition and the specific needs of the developing organism. Credit: Skoltech Skoltech scientists…