Electric Fields Strip Toxic Metals From Contaminated Soil in Just Five Hours
Researchers in Nigeria used a low-voltage electric field to strip cobalt, lead, zinc, copper and cadmium from contaminated loamy soil ...
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Scientists Forge Impossible Copper-Vanadium Alloy at Room Temperature Using Extreme Torsion
Researchers used high-pressure torsion to force nearly immiscible copper and vanadium into a nanostructured alloy with record strength of about ...
Mathematical Model Reveals How Copper and Zinc Drive Alzheimer’s Plaque Formation
A Mississippi State mathematician has built a validated computational model showing how copper and zinc ions influence amyloid-beta plaque formation ...
Organic Farming’s Hidden Risk: Chicken Manure Can Load Cockscomb With Toxic Metals
A Nigerian study finds that manure from battery-cage chickens carries far more copper, cadmium and manganese into soils and edible ...
Giant Land Snails Reveal Hidden Limits of Soil Metal Contamination in Abidjan
A new study of giant African land snails in Abidjan shows that soil metal contamination does not translate predictably into ...
Iron-Manganese Phosphate Composites Lock Away Toxic Metals in Mining Soils
Iron-manganese (hydr)oxide-phosphate composites reduced bioavailable cadmium, lead, copper, and zinc in mining soil by up to 99.8 percent while rebuilding ...
Shape-Shifting Copper Atoms Turn Methane Directly Into Acetic Acid
Copper single atoms anchored on boron nanosheets reversibly switch into clusters that convert methane to acetic acid with 97% selectivity, ...
Blow-Spun PVDF–Clay Nanofiber Membranes Strip Lead and Copper From Water
Brazilian researchers used solution blow spinning to fabricate PVDF–montmorillonite clay nanofiber membranes that removed over 90 percent of lead and ...
Micronutrients shape plant root defense through microbiomes and pathogen evasion
Micronutrients such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese and boron have long been treated by agricultural science as little more than ...
Study traces heavy metals across lakes and rivers in Qaidam Basin watershed
A hidden chemical story is unfolding beneath the waters of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, where sediments in lakes, rivers and salt ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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