Les moules, expertes en liaisons de matériaux
À quoi ressembleront les futures interfaces entre neurones et circuits électroniques ? Pour une équipe de l’Université McGill, la réponse viendra peut-être d’une moule !
Read More >>À quoi ressembleront les futures interfaces entre neurones et circuits électroniques ? Pour une équipe de l’Université McGill, la réponse viendra peut-être d’une moule !
Read More >>University of Washington biogeochemists get closer to solving the “phosphate problem” – that life needs a lot of it, but it’s typically rare.
Read More >>Harmful pollutants found in oil spills, burning coal and forest fire smoke have been detected in orcas in British Columbia waters, including the in-utero transfer of the chemicals from mother to fetus.
Read More >>Permeable pavements show promise for adsorbing car tire particles and their associated chemicals, and could be more widely used to keep these contaminants from harming coho salmon.
Read More >>A funny thing happened when Sergio de la Barrera and his colleagues started playing around with sheets of graphene – they created a new type of “quasicrystal” with fascinating properties that could help scientists explore exotic kinds of physics.
Read More >>Mining is an expensive business, which is why you want as much information as possible about potential mineral deposits before you start drilling.
Read More >>Une équipe de l’Université McGill et de l’Université du Québec à Montréal révèle que la bave d’un ver tropical cache une chimie unique dans le monde animal.
Read More >>Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a filter that traps virtually all micro and nano plastics from water using bark and sawdust.
Read More >>Over the past decade, however, a promising new class of photovoltaic material has come to the fore – perovskite crystals made of a combination of organic and inorganic materials, such as lead-halide.
Read More >>Au Canada, l’été 2023 a été marqué par la fumée des feux de forêt. Mais au-delà des avertissements sur la qualité de l’air, beaucoup de questions sur la nature même de cette fumée restent sans réponse. Des chercheurs tentent de dissiper ce brouillard.
Read More >>At the levels surveyed, aquatic wildlife are at risk of ingesting enough microplastics to fill their guts, diluting their regular food and its nutritional value.
Read More >>In 2018, scientists deliberately poured dilbit into a freshwater lake, and now their findings – which they hope will inform future clean up efforts – are starting to come out.
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