The fact that like charges repel and opposites attract is basic electromagnetism. But for decades scientists have occasionally made a counterintuitive, and controversial, observation: similarly ...

In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves ...

Upon intravenous administration, NPs and NMs enter the vascular system and are distributed to the organs and peripheral tissues of the body. Within the vascular compartment these particles or ...

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when exposed to the crushing pressure of the deep sea.

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Share on Pinterest Pictured: Director of the Marine Institute of Plymouth Prof. Richard Thompson analyses nurdles and other micro-plastics in a laboratory at the University of Plymouth, south western ...