Sea turtles have a deadly attraction to stinky plastic

Sea turtles around the world are threatened by marine plastic debris, mostly through ingestion and entanglement.…

Atomic fingerprint identifies emission sources of uranium

Uranium is not always the same: depending on whether this chemical element is released by the…

What MH17 has taught us about international disaster investigations

For the Dutch Safety Board (DSB), the investigation into the MH17 plane crash was unprecedented in…

Wearable devices powered by body motion using stretchable carbon nanotube thin films

A transparent, stretchable triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) with area up to 12 cm x 12 cm and…

Researchers reveal novel ethylene signaling mechanism in rice roots

Phytohormone ethylene plays essential roles in plant growth and development and response to stresses. In dicot…

Highly selective recovery of lanthanides via layered vanadate with acid and radiation resistance

With the development of nuclear energy, environmental concerns associated with the nuclear fuel cycle has attracted…

Charcoal particles from recent bushfires were transported 50 kilometers

When ANSTO environmental scientist Dr. Craig Woodward noticed large pieces of charcoal on his balcony in…

Study achieves a new record fiber QKD transmission distance of over 509 km

The sending-or-not-sending twin-field (SNS-TF) protocol has so far proved to be a highly promising strategy for…

Extremely active and selective immobilized catalyst for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction

Well-defined metal complexes with chemical stability and structural tunability are a promising class of electrocatalytic CO2…

Scientists prevent critical collapse of higher-order solitons

Solitons are stable objects balanced by diffraction or dispersion and nonlinearity. A fundamental challenge in this…