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New material can 'capture toxic pollutants from air'

Posted: 17 May 2022 06:04 PM PDT

A new material is capable of capturing trace amounts of benzene, a toxic pollutant, from the air and crucially use less energy than existing materials to do so.

Seafloor animal cued to settle, transformed by a bacterial compound

Posted: 17 May 2022 06:04 PM PDT

A new study has revealed that a large, complex molecule, called lipopolysaccharide, produced by bacteria is responsible for inducing larval marine tubeworms, Hydroides elegans, to settle to the seafloor and begin the complex processes of metamorphosis.