As the electric vehicle market booms, the demand for lithium—the mineral required for lithium-ion batteries—has also soared. Global lithium production has more than tripled in the last decade. But ...

Let's face it, we are a results-driven society. Too focused on the outcome, people don't often think about the "how." For instance, did you think about "how" you got to work this morning or did you ...

Have you ever wondered why companies are so eager for your old electronics? It's not because they want your previous iPhone ...

Solvent extraction supports the migration of lithium ions from brine into an organic liquid phase that contains a specific extractant. This extractant forms compounds with lithium, facilitating the ...

Researchers have developed a new method to prepare bone powder for ancient DNA extraction. The method outperformed previous techniques of decontaminating ancient bones. Researchers from Max Planck ...

Optimised methods of extracting the food colourant carmine could offer industry lower allergenicity and higher stability than currently used extraction techniques, say researchers. Writing in Food ...

From medicine to make-up, plastics to paper -- hardly a day goes by when we don't use titanium dioxide. Now researchers have developed a simpler, cheaper and greener method of extracting higher yields ...

Take a look behind the scenes of a recent Reports article, entitled: ‘Rapid extraction of DNA suitable for NGS workflows from bacterial cultures using the PDQeX’, as we ask authors about PDQeX, a new ...

For automated capture of end points, aims were to (1) develop and test methods to collect end point–defining image files for patients participating in clinical trials, (2) develop a data model and ...

Explore economical honey extraction methods for small-scale beekeepers and learn how one apiary uses a unique system to extract honey from frames. How does a small beekeeping operation get all that ...