Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
How coral restoration could help rewrite the story of coral reefs
Coral restoration provides a promising tool for reversing ongoing declines in coral-reef ecosystems. A new study asks what it would take for restoration to increase reef growth enough for them to keep pace with projected sea-level rise and mitigate future storm-driven flooding on reef-lined coasts.
Exploring a Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna
Major new fossil sites don't turn up every day. This is the story behind the discovery and early investigation of Castle Bank (Wales, UK), by Joe Botting and Lucy Muir: a married couple who have an academic background but work mostly as amateurs.
A simple, yet effective, method to increase the yield of gel chromatography separation of single-chirality carbon nanotubes
Preparing high-concentration individualized carbon nanotubes for industrial separation of multiple single-chirality species-Nature Communications
Large-scale production of single-chirality carbon nanotubes has long been a major challenge. Liu et al. report a simple, yet effective method to incre....
An AI-powered wearable skin
We report an artificial intelligence powered resistive skin that can disentangle a single biosignal into multiple useful biometric data.
