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Tuning Sulfur and Selenium Mix Unlocks Record Solar Hydrogen From Eco-Friendly Quantum Dots

Photoelectrochemical water splitting offers a clean path to produce hydrogen fuel directly from sunlight and water. Quantum dots – nanoscale semiconductor crystals – are highly promising for this application due to their tunable bandgaps and strong light absorption.

10 Oct 2026

Eco-Friendly Battery Binder Replaces Toxic Solvents with Natural Ingredients

A new battery binder — the glue that holds together a battery's internal parts — could make lithium-ion batteries more environmentally friendly and easier to recycle without sacrificing performance.

10 Oct 2026

Direct Isotopic Tracking Eliminates Uncertainties Inherent in Indirect Nitrogen Flux Estimations

"The lake surface is calm, and the still air is glorious on this cool, cloudless August morning," Iowa State University's Elizabeth Swanner wrote about a research trip to a 60-foot deep, 13-acre lake within Itasca State Park and the Mississippi River headwaters of north-central Minnesota.

10 Oct 2026

Scientists Find Ancient Microbial Blueprint to Slash Agricultural Chemical Pollution

In a new study published in Nature, Saint Louis University School of Medicine researchers reveal an entirely unexpected blueprint for how one of the oldest microbes on Earth processes nitrogen to create ammonia, the building block of fertilizer.

10 Oct 2026

Metal-Organic Frameworks Offer a Green Alternative to Fossil-Derived Lactic Acid

Lactic acid is used in food, pharmaceuticals and the production of polylactic acid, a biodegradable polymer. It is commonly made through fermentation, which requires controlled conditions and can take considerable time, while chemical production can depend on fossil-derived feedstocks.

10 Oct 2026

Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive Enforces Extended Producer Responsibility on Pharmaceutical Firms

Several reforms to EU chemicals policy and legislation have been introduced in recent years, with the aim of promoting the green transformation. Many of these reforms also affect the pharmaceutical sector and its stakeholders. A study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland found that changes to EU chemicals legislation create both opportunities and challenges for the green transformation in the pharmaceutical sector.

10 Oct 2026

Socio-Economic Factors Drive Urban Heat Vulnerability Across Diverse Regional Spanish Climates

The methodology, applied in Bilbao, Madrid and Caceres, has shown that socio-economic conditions and the characteristics of the urban fabric have a significant influence on vulnerability. The tool generates vulnerability maps that help determine where adaptation measures to combat heatwaves should be prioritised.

10 Oct 2026

Decade-Long Study Confirms Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Optoelectronic Material Pollutants

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are regulated under the Stockholm Convention because of their long-term risks to ecosystems and human health. Assessing environmental persistence and long-range transport potential (LRTP) is therefore essential for identifying new candidate POPs.

10 Oct 2026

Study Highlights Life-Cycle Impacts of Trading Feed Versus Animal-Derived Food

The United States currently exports large quantities of soybeans, maize and other feed crops to China, where they support livestock production. This arrangement has advantages: growing the feed in the United States causes less global nitrogen loss than producing the same feed entirely in China, according to the study. Yet the feed and the animals that consume it are largely separated across two countries.

10 Oct 2026

Engineers Design Wave-Shaped Building Facades to Mitigate Aerodynamic Wind Loads

Florida State University faculty are helping build stronger structures by examining how wave-shaped patterns on exterior walls and roofs reduce wind loads on low-rise buildings by up to 60%.

10 Oct 2026

Global Marine Mapping Identifies Vast Potential Area for Scalable Carbon Sequestration

Seaweed aquaculture is a nature-based climate solution. Macroalgae contribute roughly 1.5 petagrams of carbon (PgC) to global annual net primary production, and farm sediments can bury about 1.87 ± 0.73 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per hectare per year—about twice the rate of adjacent non-farmed areas.

10 Oct 2026

The French Paper Industry Cuts Biocide Use by 1,000 Metric Tons Per Year Thanks to BWT Technology

BWT France, a subsidiary of the Austrian group Best Water Technology, Europe's leader in water treatment, reviews six years of supporting France's paper and board industry, driving increasingly sustainable industrial water treatment.

9 Oct 2026

Hearing Tests Reveal How Sea Lions and Fur Seals Hear Human-Made Noise

Curtin University and Taronga Conservation Society Australia researchers have conducted the first hearing tests on Australian sea lions and long-nosed fur seals, revealing what sounds these marine mammals can hear and helping assess how human-made noise could affect them.

9 Oct 2026

Electric Vehicle Batteries Get a Longer Lifespan When Weak Cells are Bypassed

In today's electric vehicle batteries, a single weak cell can limit the life of the entire battery pack, even when the other cells are still working well.

9 Oct 2026