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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered that the frass of the horned passalus beetle is teeming with antibiotic and antifungal chemicals similar to the ones that humans use to ward off bacterial and fungal infections. Understanding the symbiotic relationship between bessbug beetles, actinomycetes and their antimicrobial compounds could help speed the search for new antibiotic drugs, and help doctors create better strategies for preventing the rise of antibiotic-res...

By Lorena Anderson, UC Merced May 17, 2021 Looking below the topsoil allows researchers to see a fuller picture of climate warmings effects. Scientists often study the relationship of global warming and topsoil because soil is an important mediator of climate change. A newly released study indicates it’s critical to consider subsoil in climate-change research, too. A new paper in the prestigious journal Nature Communications by Professor Stephen Hart, his former graduate student Nicholas D...

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When I was small, my father would conduct experiments around the house. When you blow across the top of a wine bottle, how many modes of vibration are there? How do you get the higher notes? Another time, the matter under investigation might be...

 E-Mail Neonatal hypothermia -- which occurs when an infants core body temperature falls below the normal range needed to maintain health -- contributes to approximately one million deaths each year, and countless cases of stunted growth, almost exclusively in low- and middle-income countries. To address this common but preventable condition, researchers from Boston Childrens Hospital, engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and colleagues in Rwanda developed the Dream Warmer, a lo...

NationofChange Scientists develop truly biodegradable plastics While biodegradable plastics have been touted as a solution to plastic pollution, in practice they dont work as advertised. A research team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley has found a way to make biodegradable plastics actually disappear. While biodegradable plastics have been touted as a solution to plastic pollu...

Im not interested. But Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said the riskiest process related to fracking is the drilling of new wells, and that will stop in 2024. Existing permits for wells must be used within one year, he said. “Those wells that have been fracked presumably will continue to produce oil in coming years. But the impact or the activities that we’re concerned about, which is essentially the violent explosion of chemicals through the subsurface, will end,” he said. “P...

Inside Clean Energy: The Rooftop Solar Income Gap Is (Slowly) Shrinking Research shows that falling costs are helping to make solar accessible to people with lower incomes. April 15, 2021 Contractors install SunRun Inc. solar panels on the roof of a new home at the Westline Homes Willowood Cottages community in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 15, 2018. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Related Share this article One of the most common arguments against subsidizing rooftop sol...

Nanotechnology Now Home > Press > Better solutions for making hydrogen may lie just at the surface The unique interactions between perovskite oxide, its changing surface layer, and iron species that are active toward the OER paves a new path for the design of active and stable materials, bringing us one step closer to efficient and affordable green hydrogen production. CREDIT Argonne National Laboratory Abstract: A clean energy future propelled by hydrogen fuel depends on figuring out how to re...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The unique interactions between perovskite oxide, its changing surface layer, and iron species that are active toward the OER paves a new path for the design of active and stable... view more  Credit: Argonne National Laboratory A clean energy future propelled by hydrogen fuel depends on figuring out how to reliably and efficiently split water. Thats because, even though hydrogen is abundant, it must be derived from another substance that contains it -- and today, that ...