Saudi Arabia

Unveiling new strategies to improve future wireless underwater sensing networks for marine research and communication.

A simple chemical surface treatment improves the performance of nanowire ultraviolet light-emitting diodes.

Understanding how bacteria help convert glacier bedrock into soil could help address desertification.

More accurate statistical modeling of extreme weather will improve forecasting and disaster mitigation.

A technique of microwave synthesis of layered oxides enables high-capacity aqueous zinc-ion batteries.

Corals living in highly saline waters may be more tolerant to rising water temperatures.

A technique that uses the power of computing could solve statistical problems cheaper and faster than current methods.

Seagrass meadows play a pivotal role in protecting coasts against rising sea levels.

Nanomaterial coating enables efficient delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into the cell.

A metal-organic framework that can take up twice its weight in water and then release it when humidity falls.

Innovative diode design uses ultrafast quantum tunneling to harvest infrared energy from the environment.

Genetic analyses of a desert bacterium show it could help to improve crop production in arid lands.

A method to visualize hidden statistical structure helps make sense of environmental data.

Ultrathin, rigid silicon segments that are wired through interdigitated metal contacts produce ultraflexible high-performance solar cells.

A comparison of the genomes of two species of coral demonstrates unexpected genetic diversity.

Geophysical modeling of one of the world’s most important fossil sites reveals the history of the site where early humankind evolved.

The protein CD34 is predominantly regarded as a marker of blood-forming stem cells but it helps with migration to the bone marrow too.

Fine tuning the composition of nitride alloys can further the development of optical and electronic interface devices.

Atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy of electron beam-sensitive crystalline materials

Wavy transistors that vertically gain width without increasing their on-chip footprint could drive future flexible displays.

Genomes of single microbial cells isolated from the Red Sea could yield a goldmine for biotechnology.

The transition to renewables will take decades, so we must rush to clean up conventional fuel combustion, says Mani Sarathy.

The Red Sea has relatively low amounts of floating plastic debris in its surface waters due to fewer sources or faster removal.

Theoretical simulations reveal how small amounts of friction on an object’s surface can trigger drag-reducing eddy currents.

A new statistical technique could be used to more accurately locate global wind resources.

Synchrotron study reveals oxygen’s influence on the chemistry that surrounds us.

Coordinated robot swarms can achieve amazing feats, but even a single faulty unit can have serious consequences.

An easy and reliable assembly approach, inspired by building blocks, challenges the current fabrication of electronic systems.

Jumping genes could make an alga, and its coral host, more tolerant to warming sea temperatures.

Some species of fish have special adaptive mechanisms that could improve their chances of surviving the greenhouse effect.