10+ hour, 52+ min ago   (749+ words) HERE are the latest Bridgwater and wider Somerset offenders who have appeared in Magistrates’ Court this week. James Hawkins, 59, of Lyndale Avenue, Bridgwater, Somerset, pleaded guilty to assaulting a man by beating him in Bridgwater on May 30 of this year....

12+ hour, 59+ min ago   (720+ words) Every year, roughly 2.3 million tons of flame retardants are applied worldwide, and demand keeps climbing, especially in construction. Most are made from petroleum, mined minerals, or halogenated chemistry that works well in fires but lingers in the environment and raises…...

5+ hour, 45+ min ago   (75+ words) A new comprehensive review published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research surveys one of the most quietly promising corners of nanomedicine: carbon dots, nanoscale specks of carbon that are showing remarkable ability to kill bacteria and dismantle the sticky biofilms…...

7+ hour, 44+ min ago   (96+ words) A cobalt-based metal-organic framework that can flag the chemical fingerprint of anthrax spores in drinking water within a single minute has been developed by researchers seeking a faster, cheaper alternative to laboratory chromatography. The material, described in the journal Results…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (534+ words) Mapping the wiring of the brain at nanometer resolution has long demanded a punishing trade-off: electron microscopy can reveal every synaptic cleft and organelle, but imaging even a cubic millimeter of neural tissue this way takes months or years of…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (80+ words) A team of researchers at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad has shown that an ordinary kitchen staple, corn starch, can be transformed into a surprisingly capable solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries when it is combined with the right additives. In work…...

10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (715+ words) Enzymes are the quiet workhorses of the modern food industry, quietly cleaving sugars, clarifying juices, and softening doughs in plants around the world. Yet they have always carried an awkward industrial weakness: used once, they are typically discarded along with…...

11+ hour, 5+ min ago   (617+ words) A team of materials scientists has shown that ordinary green tea can do far more than steep a soothing drink: its polyphenol-rich extract can grow phase-pure nickel oxide nanoparticles that, when embedded in a biodegradable chitosan matrix, transform a humble…...

11+ hour, 22+ min ago   (79+ words) A sweeping review published in Discover Electrochemistry has consolidated more than a decade of progress on MXenes, a family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides that many researchers now regard as the most versatile nanoarchitecture in modern energy…...

11+ hour, 42+ min ago   (351+ words) Hydrogen produced by splitting water with sunlight has long been one of the most attractive goals in sustainable energy research, offering a clean fuel whose only byproduct when burned is water. Photocatalytic water splitting, in which semiconductor materials absorb light…...