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Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste.

In a new study, Northwestern University researchers demonstrated that brewing tea naturally adsorbs heavy metals like lead and cadmium, effectively filtering dangerous contaminants out of drinks. Heavy metal ions stick to, or adsorb to, the surface of the tea leaves, where they stay trapped.

The sponge, coated with nanoparticles that have an affinity for pollutants, can collect metals like zinc and copper, as well as phosphate, and in previous iterations has successfully pulled lead from water, and microplastics and oil from lakes and oceans.

Northwestern Medicine scientists measure heart contraction and electrical activity in engineered human heart tissues

Northwestern Medicine investigators target a protein that increases pediatric brain cancer survival

A crucial component in joints, cartilage is notoriously difficult to repair

Researchers used tunable polymer transistors with off-on-off outputs that can make artificial spiking neurons

Advances ‘get us one step closer to the ultimate goal of targeted biological drug delivery’

Carbonated concrete offers potential to offset emissions from cement manufacturing

Researchers used stable materials alleviate the issue of cations moving within a material

Professors Guillermo Ameer and Cheng Sun developed a stent showing similar efficacy to commercial versions

New algorithm improves resolution of resistivity maps

Innovative technique leads to perovskite-based solar cells with record-breaking efficiency

Northwestern Medicine study discovers molecular mechanisms supporting antitumor response and cell survival in cytotoxic immune cells