Location: California , United States
Roughly the size of a matchstick, a slender titanium tube could become a
pint-sized weapon against chronic hepatitis C and a host of other debilitating
diseases.
Three UCSF/UC Berkeley doctoral students are designing a tiny implantable...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) unveiled a report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. The report is based on the findings of a major MIT symposium on retrofitting coal-fired power...
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Location: Paris, France
A few seconds after the earthquake that devastated L'Aquila, in Abruzzo, a group
of seismologists, south of Paris, already knew that a quake of earth had to
produce. Their instruments? The Web. Seismologists? Witnesses themselves. To...
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Location: University of Utah, United States
University of Utah scientists devised a new way to find miners trapped by
cave-ins. The method involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at
regular intervals inside mines, and sensitive listening devices on the ground...
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Location: Pittsburgh, United States
ABSTRACT
Historically, coal miners have known that roof shales can
deteriorate in contact with humid mine air, causing massive...
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Location: Calgiary, United States
Ice-like “cages” of gas trapped underground may offer a safe and efficient way to reduce global warming.
Two U of C researchers are investigating the potential for permanently storing carbon dioxide in geological reservoirs, by...
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Location: Paris, France
Today, olefins, which are then converted into polyolefins, the raw material for plastics, are produced from their derivatives, naphtha or ethane. Or to diversify the sources of raw material for plastic products, Total has just opened a new way to...
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Location: West Lafayette, United States
Materials engineers have created a new type of membrane that separates oil from water and, if perfected, might be used for environmental cleanup, water purification and industrial applications.
The new technology would last longer than...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Researchers have devised a technology that can distinguish mine collapses
from other seismic activity. Using the large seismic disturbance associated with
the Crandall Canyon mine collapse last August,
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Location: Arizona State University, United States
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by
Arizona State
University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport
security checkpoints...
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Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, United States
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often
produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has
a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Department of Energy, United States
If the Flintstones had electricity, their wires might have
been made of rock. New results in Science Express show that a chunk of hematite
can conduct electrons under certain chemical conditions. In addition, the
current...
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Location: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States
Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence
on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market...
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Location: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States
A new National Aeronautics and
Space Administration study confirms that the surface temperature of
Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air
temperatures, and...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
A comprehensive new study authored by University
at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in
detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important...
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Location: Department of Physics, Syracuse University, United States
Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse
University's Department of
Physics may help them identify the sound of a...
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Location: Durham University, United Kingdom
A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham
University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects
into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy.
The £6.3million...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
By 2100, warmer oceans with more carbon
dioxide may no longer sustain 1 of the world's most productive fisheries,
says
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Location: University of Oregon, United States
An international team of physicists, including University
of Oregon scientists, has concluded that last February's intense burst of
gamma rays possibly coming from the Andromeda Galaxy...
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