A research team at the Politecnico di Milano has developed an innovative single-atom catalyst capable of selectively adapting its chemical activity. This is a crucial step forward in sustainable chemistry and the design of more efficient and programmable industrial processes.

The study was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, one of the world’s most authoritative scientific journals in chemistry.

Even a toddler knows that plants need water. It’s perhaps the first thing we learn about these green lifeforms. But how plants budget this resource varies considerably. The kapok trees of the Amazon have adopted vastly different strategies than the switchgrass of the American plains. Unfortunately, it’s hard to directly measure which ones prevail in different ecosystem types and how they shift under changing conditions.

A study of migrants in Italy has shown how statistical modelling can help improve the identification of Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) infections.

Research in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases focussed on soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections using a case study of migrants in Italy’s Campania region.

STH is a type of worm infection caused by different species of roundworms with three types caused by A. lumbricoides, hookworms, and T. trichiura.

The data included 3,830 migrants from 64 countries, with over 87% male and with a median age of 27.