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15-Jan-2025

Researchers make comfortable materials that generate power when worn

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have demonstrated new wearable technologies that both generate electricity from human movement and improve the comfort of the technology for the people wearing them. The work stems from an advanced understanding of materials that increase comfort in textiles and produce electricity when they rub against another surface.

Journal

Science Advances

Funder

U.S. National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Eye Institute

15-Jan-2025

Baleen whales in the northwest Atlantic are particularly vulnerable to boat injuries in densely inhabited regions, shipping routes, and fishing grounds

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Baleen whales in the northwest Atlantic are particularly vulnerable to boat injuries in densely inhabited regions, shipping routes, and fishing grounds, according to a spatiotemporal vulnerability analysis conducted under current and climate change conditions

Journal

PLOS One

15-Jan-2025

Examination of Large Language Model "red-teaming" defines it as a non-malicious team-effort activity to seek LLMs' limits and identifies 35 different techniques used to test them

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Examination of Large Language Model "red-teaming" defines it as a non-malicious team-effort activity to seek LLMs' limits and identifies 35 different techniques used to test them

Journal

PLOS One

15-Jan-2025

China makes progress in carbon neutrality and clean air efforts, report finds

Eurasia Academic Publishing Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

China has achieved notable progress in its dual goals of carbon neutrality and clean air, according to the 2023 Synergetic Roadmap report.

Journal

Environmental Science and Ecotechnology

15-Jan-2025

Sustainable plastic waste management: New insect-based bioconversion system shows promise

Eurasia Academic Publishing Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) and the University of Newcastle (Australia) has introduced a novel, two-stage bioconversion system that uses insect larvae to transform plastic waste into valuable by-products, offering a sustainable solution to two global environmental challenges—plastic pollution and organic waste management.

Journal

Environmental Science and Ecotechnology

15-Jan-2025

New research helps eliminate dead zones in desalination technology and beyond

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Engineers have found a way to eliminate the fluid flow “dead zones” that plague the types of electrodes used for battery-based seawater desalination. The new technique uses a physics-based tapered flow channel design within electrodes that moves fluids quickly and efficiently, potentially requiring less energy than reverse osmosis techniques currently require.

Journal

Electrochimica Acta

Funder

U.S. Office of Naval Research

15-Jan-2025

Breakthrough bioprocess turns CO2 and electricity into high-protein food

Eurasia Academic Publishing Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A pioneering study published in Environmental Science and Ecotechnology has unveiled a novel bioprocess that transforms carbon dioxide (CO2) and electricity into single-cell protein (SCP), a sustainable and nutrient-rich food source.

Journal

Environmental Science and Ecotechnology