Rice University researchers have developed an electrochemical reactor that has the potential to drastically reduce energy consumption for direct air capture, the removal of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. The new reactor design could be a part of the solution to the pressing problem of emission impacts on the climate and biosphere by enabling … Read more
The idea of turning the air around us into drinking water is a marvel on its own. And grabbing a sustainable amount of it from low-humidity environments has long been closer to science fiction than reality. As a megadrought stresses the water supply throughout the Southwest, revolutionary research out of UNLV is answering this problem … Read more
Steps Involved in Pro-σK Cleavage by SpoIVFB. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52634-6 When Ben Orlando delivered a 2019 research talk at Michigan state University’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, it set the stage for a collaborative breakthrough that was decades in the making. In the lecture hall that day was Professor Emeritus Lee … Read more