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Location: California, United States
What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took
to make it disappear? Would it make us think twice about buying bottled water or
"disposable" razors?
A team of MIT researchers today announced a major...
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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by
thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and
cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are
proving to be...
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Location: Paris, France
Pegasus, competitiveness cluster dedicated to develop the economic activity of the aerospace industry of the Provence-Alpes-Cote deAzur (PACA), has looked upon its creation in the "airship". It has also imposed among the most pressing issues to...
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Location: Humburg, Germany
At the time of construction of a new energy and climate strategy for Europe, development of renewable energy is presented as a necessity to switch to a sustainable economy of low carbon. Thus, the EU has set itself the target of satisfying 20% of...
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Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States
A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and
experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might
be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide
captured...
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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: 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: Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR), Australia
If world leaders do not immediately engage in a race against time to save the
Earth's coral reefs, these vital ecosystems will not survive the global warming
and acidification predicted for later this century. That is the conclusion of a...
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Location: University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Scientists at the University of Leeds
are turning low-grade sludge into high-value gas in a process which could make
eco-friendly biodiesel even greener and more economical to produce.
Biodiesel –...
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Location: School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Biologists and computer scientists have appealed for more information on the
world’s biodiversity to be stored digitally so it may better be used to
understand the impact of climate change on the Earth’s flora and fauna.
A study,...
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Location: 216 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0216, United States
The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and
levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low, scientists said last
night. Experts said they were "stunned" by the loss of ice, with an area almost
twice...
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Location: PO Box 1365, Fortitude Valley, Qld 4006, Australia
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is calling
for immediate, practical steps to preserve developing countries’ dwindling
wealth of animal genetic diversity, which is vital for enabling livestock
production to meet new...
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Location: 677 South Segoe Rd , Madison, WI 53711, United States
The Yam bean originated where the Andes meet the Amazon and is locally grown
in South and Central America, South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific. It is
produced in three species which are called the Amazonian, Mexican and Andean....
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Location: 8 Temasek Boulevard #14-00, Suntec Tower 3, Singapore 038988, Singapore
Senior ICT policy makers and regulators from developing countries are in
Singapore to attend a five-day executive programme on information and
communication technology (ICT) development, entitled "Enabling Frameworks for
ICT Development —...
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Location: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza,1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,
Washington, DC 20004-3027, United States
Almost a year in the making, a federal plan to prioritize research on the
potential environmental, health, and safety (EHS) impacts of nanoscale materials
has so many failings that its begs the question as to whether the government’s...
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Location: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,200 Patton Hall,,Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061,, United States
“Fruity plastic” may seem like a connoisseur’s description of the bouquet of
a bottle of Chardonnay or Merlot gone bad. However, that was among several
uncomplimentary terms that a panel of water “sensory experts” used to describe
the odor...
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