Collaborate Disseminate
For many years now, people in parts of Africa have used a tea made from the crushed leaves of a certain plant to treat malaria. Scientists recently identified the active ingredient, and believe that it could be used in alternative pharmaceutical treatm… Continue reading Plant extract could treat malaria when conventional drugs fail
If you’re trying to make a wound dressing that will be well-tolerated by the human body, you may be best off using human-derived materials. That’s the approach that German researchers have taken, creating a tropoelastin-based bandage.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Experimental chronic wound dressing made from human protein
As a widely used material across the globe, cement has a massive environmental footprint and accounts for around eight percent of our CO2 emissions, but scientists hope to eat into this problem by making tweaks to the recipe. A research team has now co… Continue reading Novel cement uses discarded clay to cut carbon footprint by two thirds
Although some people may think that electric cars can run forever, their motors do wear out over time. According to a new study, special dyes could allow drivers and mechanics to know when that time is about to come.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTag… Continue reading Color-changing dye could warn of motor failure in electric cars
Ordinarily, if you want to make a 3D-printed liquid-filled object, you have to inject the liquid after the object has been printed. A new process, however, allows such items to be printed all in one step – and the technology could have some valuable ap… Continue reading Hybrid 3D printing technique produces liquid-filled objects
The wonder material graphene can take many forms for many different purposes, from transparent films that repel mosquitoes to crumpled balls that could boost the safety of batteries. One that has scientists particularly excited is nanoribbons for appli… Continue reading Atom-by-atom assembly makes for cheap, tuneable graphene nanoribbons