IN THE LAB
Antibiotic Resistance Linked To Corruption, Not Wealth
Tackling corruption could have the unexpected benefit of also addressing antibiotic resistance, study says.
Metal Foam Electrodes Split Water With Unprecedented Efficiency
By coating nickel foam with a nickel-iron nanosheets, scientists have made an efficient catalyst that could be used to produce hydrogen at the industrial scale.
Electric Cars Are Literally Cooler
If all the drivers in Beijing switched to electric cars, the city would be 1°C cooler, scientists estimate.
Higher Order Modes The Key To Fast Optical Manipulation
The ability to manipulate particles with light could one day be used to deliver drugs to specific cells and even build a quantum computer.
Obtaining Benzenes From Biomass
A catalyst that can selectively cleave the carbon-oxygen single bonds in lignin could lead to a new way to produce aromatic chemicals such as benzene.
Fancy A Remote Controlled Beetle To Do Your Bidding?
Self-steering remote controlled beetles could prove to be more useful than drones for entering small nooks and crevices.
Scientists Unknowingly Tweak Experiments
Although fairly common, p-hacking nonetheless probably does not drastically alter scientific consensus, scientists say.
Bacteria Could Help Clean Up Radioactive Soil
A highly acidic protein from salt-loving bacteria could be used to remove radioactive cesium from contaminated soil.
Optogenetics Down To A Whisker
Scientists have demonstrated that optogenetic techniques can be restricted to selected neural circuits, specifically the D2 whisker in rats.
