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Students turn research into award-winning ventures
University of Texas at ArlingtonDiscovery in the deep sea: Unique habitat at hydrothermal vents
Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)19 September 2025 / Kiel. An international research team led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has discovered a globally unique system on the seabed off the coast of Papua New Guinea. During their expedition aboard the research vessel SONNE, they came across the “Karambusel” field, where hydrothermal vents and methane seeps occur immediately adjacent to one another. The discovery is significant not only for geology but also provides new insights into the development of deep-sea communities. The study describing the discovery is published today in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Breaking the ice: why study Antarctica?
University of New South WalesFrom unique wildlife to resilient microbes, world-changing climate dynamics to untapped biotechnological potential – four UNSW scientists outline what makes Antarctica a laboratory like no other.
Climate, crisis, and crops: Why gene and seed banks are more essential than ever
Aarhus UniversityAdvanced AI links atomic structure to quantum tech
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory- Journal
- npj Computational Materials
Regulatory loopholes, endangered wild salmon and suffering farmed salmon
Norwegian University of Science and Technology- Journal
- Marine Policy
Further, higher, longer: how batteries are driving growth in the drone market
University of BirminghamPioneering recipe for conductive plastics – paves the way for your body to go online
Chalmers University of TechnologyIt’s mouldable, biocompatible and glitters like gold. Plastic that can conduct an electric charge is a material that can be used for everything from sensors that can monitor our health to self-cooling clothing or electronic adhesive plasters that can be applied to the skin and send data directly to a mobile phone. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden recently presented a ground-breaking ‘recipe’ that makes it easier to manufacture this kind of sought-after electrically conductive plastic in larger quantities – without the use of harmful chemicals, and in a much more cost-effective way.
“Once higher production volumes are achieved, it is possible to work with the material in a completely different way. Larger quantities are needed to enable the development of a range of applications, for example in biotechnology, energy storage, and wearable electronics,” says Christian Müller, Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers and co-author of a study recently published in Science Advances.
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- Science Advances
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- European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement, European Research Council (ERC), The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation., The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation