Researchers from TU Wien and the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) have created unique titanium oxide nanoparticles that can be added to standard, commercially available wall paint to provide self-cleaning properties.
The loss of biodiversity and the demand for clean, renewable energy are both being exacerbated by climate change. It is also changing the predicted future habitats of species.
The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 has adapted to spread between birds and marine mammals, posing an immediate threat to wildlife conservation, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, and the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in Argentina.
A research group headed by Professor Wang Cheng of City University of Hong Kong's (CityUHK) Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) has created a cutting-edge microwave photonic device that can process analog electronic signals and compute using optics at ultrafast speeds.