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 E-Mail IMAGE: In terms of efficiency, perovskite solar cells have caught up on silicon solar cells, but some of their properties are not yet understood completely. view more  Credit: Markus Breig, KIT Photovoltaics decisively contributes to sustainable energy supply. The efficiency of solar cells in directly converting light energy into electrical energy depends on the material used. Metal-halide perovskites are considered very promising materials for solar cells of the next generati...

By Yoni Nazarathy, Associate Professor of Data Science, The University of Queensland Shutterstock One of the biggest challenges in managing the coronavirus pandemic has been a lack of real-time information about the virus’s spread. While the goal of well-intentioned governments is clear — to mitigate spread with minimal economic and social impact — it is very difficult to decide on the best policy to achieve this. In Australia, public health authorities have been consistent...

Credit: Carsten A. Skjøth Grass pollen is a major outdoor allergen, responsible for widespread and costly respiratory conditions including allergic asthma and hay fever (rhinitis). Now, researchers re-porting in the journal Current Biology on March 11 suggest that environmental DNA could help to better understand which grasses are the worst offenders. "These findings represent a first step towards changing and improving our understanding of the complex relationships between pollen and populat...

Credit: The Nature Conservancy and American Forests Reforestation could help to combat climate change, but whether and where to plant trees is a complex choice with many conflicting factors. To combat this problem, researchers reporting in the journal One Earth on December 18 have created the Reforestation Hub, an interactive map of reforestation opportunity in the United States. The tool will help foresters, legislators, and natural resource agency staff weigh the options while developing str...

The first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was found to be 85 per cent effective against Covid-19.- ST SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Researchers here have found that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can help the body to produce specific types of antibodies and immune cells against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which may explain why it is able to offer protection from Covid-19 as early as 12 days after a single dose. According to an Israeli study conducted among healthcare workers, the first dose of ...

The Straits Times Local researchers say its due to early development of antibodies, immune cells targeting virus A healthcare assistant from Ren Ci @ Bukit Batok Street 52 getting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in January. Researchers tracked the immune response of 20 healthcare workers here who took the vaccine in January, and found that 16 developed antibodies against the spike protein of the virus after 12 days. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with a known efficacy rate of 95 p...

The cryptocurrency market has been abuzz as Bitcoin gains popularity with investors, reaching an all-time high of over $58,000 apiece in February. In a commentary published March 10 in the journal

Credit: Jilin University Scientists have developed a see-through glass display with a high white light contrast ratio that smoothly transitions between a broad spectrum of colors when electrically charged. The technology, from researchers at Jilin University in Changchun, China, overcomes limitations of existing electrochromic devices by harnessing interactions between metal ions and ligands, opening the door for numerous future applications. The work appears March 10 in the journal Chem. "We ...

Researchers at Nara Women's University have discovered sea slugs that can sever their own heads…and then grow entirely new bodies.

Does that make them the Terminators of the animal world?