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Researchers create new 'smart' material with potential biomedical, environmental uses

“One limiting factor in the use of alginate hydrogels is that they're very fragile — they tend to fall apart under mechanical load or in low salt solutions,”…

Chinese scientists unlock structural secrets of whale baleen

In a recent publication, Dr. Bin Wang from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Professors…

How Unknown Glaciers Contributed to Rising Sea Levels

The rising sea levels have several causes: thermal expansion of the water as it warms, melting glaciers and ice sheets, and finally the extraction of…

Finding plastic litter from afar

Ghost nets and other plastic garbage drifting in the sea could soon be detected automatically by planes, drones or satellites. The basis for this has been laid…

Research icebreaker Polarstern begins the Antarctic season

On Saturday, 10 November 2018, the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport of Bremerhaven, bound for Cape Town, South Africa.

A shortcut in the global sulphur cycle

Sulphur is found in many different compounds throughout the world – not only in the atmosphere, but also in the oceans and on land. All these manifestations…

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