Agriculture Research update Biochar could boost US crops Charcoal made from plant remains improves soil and offers gains in yield Read article: Biochar could boost US crops
Diagnostic imaging Research update Low-cost eye scanner could increase worldwide access to retinal imaging An affordable optical coherence tomography scanner could improve worldwide access to retinal screening and early detection of eye disease Read article: Low-cost eye scanner could increase worldwide access to retinal imaging
Biomaterials Research update Amino acid orchestra trains machine learning algorithms to design proteins Music encoding protein properties provides a new route to AI materials design Read article: Amino acid orchestra trains machine learning algorithms to design proteins
Climate Research update Climate impact of aircraft contrails could treble by mid-century Lowering soot emissions from jet engines could help reduce cloud formation Read article: Climate impact of aircraft contrails could treble by mid-century
Biofabrication Research update Towards in vitro blood vessel fabrication Magnetic stacking of tissue micro-rings enables fabrication of biological tubular microstructures Read article: Towards in vitro blood vessel fabrication
Spectroscopy Research update Weak measurements track single nuclear spins New NMR spectroscopy approach overcomes the quantum back-action effect Read article: Weak measurements track single nuclear spins
Optical physics Research update Twisted light gains angular momentum through ‘self-torque’ New optical effect could manipulate molecules and nanostructures Read article: Twisted light gains angular momentum through ‘self-torque’
Climate Research update Ice-free Greenland possible in 1000 years Look far enough ahead and in a millennium an ice-free Greenland is a possibility, scientists say. Sea levels too will be a lot higher by then Read article: Ice-free Greenland possible in 1000 years
Particle therapy Research update Gamma spectroscopy cuts beam-range uncertainty Photons emitted when charged particles interact with tissue show beam energy and residual range, revealing how deeply dose is delivered during particle therapy Read article: Gamma spectroscopy cuts beam-range uncertainty
Materials Research update Giant vortex clusters appear in 2D superfluids Onsager’s theory of turbulence has been confirmed in experiments for the first time Read article: Giant vortex clusters appear in 2D superfluids