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Could sewage and alum sludge hold the answer to safer fertilisers? Learn how new methods are recovering phosphorus without harmful heavy metals. By Satya Tiwari

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Alum Sludge Revolutionises Phosphorus Recovery - The Science Matters

Could sewage and alum sludge hold the answer to safer fertilisers? Learn how new methods are recovering phosphorus without harmful heavy metals.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 1d

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The Inca Blueprint For Climate-smart Farming – The Science Matters

Long before modern sustainability, Inca farmers tamed the Andes. Could their water-wise terraces and llamas show us how to farm in a changing climate?

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 1d

Long before modern sustainability, Inca farmers tamed the Andes. Could their water-wise terraces and llamas show us how to farm in a changing climate? By Alex Chepstow Lusty, @sussex.ac.uk

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 2d

Could sewage and alum sludge hold the answer to safer fertilisers? Learn how new methods are recovering phosphorus without harmful heavy metals.

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Alum sludge revolutionises phosphorus recovery – The Science Matters

Could sewage and alum sludge hold the answer to safer fertilisers? Learn how new methods are recovering phosphorus without harmful heavy metals.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 3d

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 3d

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From Herbs To Robots The Remarkable Story Of ENT Medicine – The Science Matters

How did surgery evolve from herbal cures to AI-driven robots in ENT? Discover the fascinating journey of medicine from ancient papyrus to nanotech.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 3d

How did surgery evolve from herbal cures to AI-driven robots in ENT? Discover the fascinating journey of medicine from ancient papyrus to nanotech. By Sanjay Kumar

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 3d

Can societies stay dynamic when old systems crumble? Discover how Nobel laureates explain the power of creative destruction in shaping modern economies.

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Creative Destruction And The Roots of Prosperity: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries on How Innovation Drives Growth – The Science Matters

Can societies stay dynamic when old systems crumble? Discover how Nobel laureates explain the power of creative destruction in shaping modern economies.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 3d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences honours Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress. @northwesternu @brownu @londonschoolofeconomics
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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 6d

citing her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

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María Corina Machado: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours The Woman Who Chose Ballots Over Bullets – The Science Matters

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize honours Venezuela’s unyielding defender of democracy, whose courage has rekindled hope amid authoritarian darkness.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 6d

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize honours Venezuela’s unyielding defender of democracy, whose courage has rekindled hope amid authoritarian darkness.

Her voice was heard around the world as the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Machado as the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize,

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 7d

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The Apocalypse And The Artist As The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours László Krasznahorkai’s Visionary World – The Science Matters

Krasznahorkai’s world of ruin made luminous and ask can creativity outlive despair. His Nobel recognition resonates globally.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 7d

Krasznahorkai’s fiction is not for the hurried reader. His sentences spiral and stretch endlessly, creating a rhythm that mirrors the anxious pulse of the human mind. They draw readers into worlds that seem to decay as one watches, only to reveal, at their core, an indestructible spark of beauty.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 7d

This year, the Swedish Academy awarded László Krasznahorkai the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 8d

These crystalline materials, known as metal–organic frameworks (MOF), are intricate molecular lattices that can trap, filter, or store specific molecules with extraordinary precision.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 8d

The chemistry laureates, Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University ), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne), and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley), were honoured “for the development of metal–organic frameworks”.

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The Architects Of Empty Space: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries In Metal-Organic Frameworks – The Science Matters

What if invisible materials could store hydrogen or trap pollutants? Meet the Nobel winners who built chemistry’s most powerful frameworks.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 9d

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From Atoms To Circuits: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries Showing How Quantum Physics Leapt To Human Scale – The Science Matters

How can a simple circuit behave like a giant quantum particle? Explore the Nobel 2025 discovery that brings quantum mechanics to human scale.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 9d

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

Their achievement bridged the gulf between the atomic and the tangible, proving that even circuits visible to the naked eye can behave like giant quantum particles.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 9d

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University and University of California Santa Barbara), and John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara)

From Atoms To Circuits: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries Showing How Quantum Physics Leapt To Human Scale – The Science Matters

How can a simple circuit behave like a giant quantum particle? Explore the Nobel 2025 discovery that brings quantum mechanics to human scale.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 10d

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 10d

Their discovery of regulatory T cells and the FOXP3 gene has reshaped immunology and opened pathways to next-generation treatments for autoimmune diseases, cancer, and organ transplantation. Learn more on The Science Matters.

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Guardians of The Immune System: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries That Keep Our Defences In Check – The Science Matters

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine honours discoveries that reveal how the immune system keeps itself in check, unlocking cures for autoimmunity and cancer.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 10d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for uncovering peripheral immune tolerance — the mechanism that prevents our immune system from attacking our own tissues.

Guardians of The Immune System: The 2025 Nobel Prize Honours Discoveries That Keep Our Defences In Check – The Science Matters

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine honours discoveries that reveal how the immune system keeps itself in check, unlocking cures for autoimmunity and cancer.

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 10d

From science to peace, these prestigious awards recognise life-changing work. Who will leave their mark on history next?

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The World’s Most Prestigious Prizes – The Science Matters

From science to peace, these prestigious awards recognise life-changing work. Who will leave their mark on history next?

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The Science Matters @tscimat.bsky.social · 13d

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Chemical Engineering Journal, Elsevier

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High capacity aluminium substituted hydroxyapatite incorporated granular wood charcoal (Al-HApC) for fluoride removal from aqueous medium: Batch and column study

In this study, aluminium substituted hydroxyapatite (Al-HAp) was synthesized in-situ on granular commercial wood charcoal at room temperature for fluo…

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