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10-Aug-2026

KAIST shapes a "templates a ‘gas lattice’ in porous materials”: the moment gas forms a crystal-like lattice

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

- Professor Jihan Kim's team in KAIST's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has demonstrated for the first time that a porous material can arrange disordered gas molecules into a crystal-like structure.

- The team discovered a new principle for controlling both adsorption and separation simultaneously, with potential applications in next-generation carbon-capture and hydrogen-storage materials

- Using machine learning, the team computationally designed candidate materials that induce a desired gas lattice, confirming that gas lattices are a "designable" adsorption state.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Science and ICT

10-Aug-2026

But is it natural? How our affinity for ‘naturalness’ can save or sink new climate solutions

University of Colorado at Boulder
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Across political ideologies, people in the U.S. overwhelmingly gravitate toward technologies presented as natural and reject those that seem unnatural. The findings offer insight on why some proposed climate solutions fail and help explain how greenwashing can take hold.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment

10-Aug-2026

Biochar made from brewery waste could help trap harmful bacteria in sandy filtration systems

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Patras have found that biochar made from a common brewery byproduct can substantially improve the ability of sand to retain Escherichia coli, pointing to a potential new use for brewing waste in water filtration and groundwater protection.

Journal: Biochar

10-Aug-2026

New technique reveals on a large scale how thousands of proteins change shape and move

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Led by a Brazilian researcher, a study published in Nature shows that molecules with nearly identical three-dimensional structures can exhibit completely different behaviors over time.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

10-Aug-2026

Corn stalks. It’s what’s for dinner … If you’re a microbe.

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of California San Diego bioegineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the three major sugars present in corn stalks. While the new multiple-sugar-consuming strain of the bacteria Pseudomonas putida is interesting in its own right, a new paper published in Nature Communications on July 29, 2026 outlines the broader implications of this project for the future of biomanufacturing.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

10-Aug-2026

Subsidies, fragmented enforcement hamper progress on illegal fishing: New research

University of British Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Industrial-scale illegal fishing continues to undermine ocean sustainability, coastal livelihoods, and global seafood markets—despite decades of regulation and recent advances in surveillance technology, according to new University of British Columbia research. A comprehensive analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that industrial-scale illegal and unreported fishing accounts for approximately eight to 15 per cent of global marine wild capture, underpinning an illicit seafood trade worth US$6.2 to 12.2 billion annually.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

10-Aug-2026

Computing professor wins $584K NSF CAREER Award for ‘smart cities’ research

Binghamton University
Grant and Award Announcement

A professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York has won a $584,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to create AI models to improve commute times, traffic safety, and more in urban areas.

10-Aug-2026

Baylor College of Medicine signs multi-million-dollar agreement to advance xenoliver transplantation research

Baylor College of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

Baylor College of Medicine today announced that a new research agreement with United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR), a public benefit corporation, will provide up to $5 million a year for five years to establish the Baylor College of Medicine Center for Xenoliver Transplantation and Immunomodulation (XTI), dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of xenoliver transplantation.

10-Aug-2026

Discovery of ‘slow’ electrons in 2D material could lead to new memory device

University of Chicago
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Over the last decade, researchers have developed two-dimensional materials with fascinating quantum effects that could be harnessed for next-generation technologies. At the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), a research team discovered that one such new material, Fe₅GeTe₂, exhibits a charge-ordered state in which electrons move collectively and unusually slowly while remaining quantum coherent. The research, published in Science Advances and conducted in the lab of Asst. Prof. Shuolong Yang, rewrites current knowledge of the material and unlocks new technological applications. This paper was one of the final research publications of Peter Littlewood, a distinguished physicist at UChicago who died on June 15.

Journal: Science Advances