Designing sensors to detect foreign bodies in food
Credit: NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre These devices are based on terahertz technology, a band in the electromagnetic spectrum located between the microwaves (which mobile phones...
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How best to stir a steel furnace, and beat corrosion
Credit: Dr Cameron Pleydell-Pearce, Mr Szymon Kubal, Swansea University Two steel research projects led by Swansea University -- a better way to tackle corrosion, and...
Bio-inspired energy storage: A new light for solar power
Credit: RMIT University Inspired by an American fern, researchers have developed a groundbreaking prototype that could be the answer to the storage challenge still holding...
Next generation perovskite solar cells with new world-record performance
Credit: Photo by Hong Beom Ahn, Design by HyeJee Park A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has presented a new cost-efficient way to produce inorganic-organic...
New ultrafast flexible and transparent memory devices could herald new era of electronics
An innovative new technique to produce the quickest, smallest, highest-capacity memories for flexible and transparent applications could pave the way for a future golden age...
‘Whale breath’ reveals bacteria threatening endangered killer whales
Credit: Jeff Foster Droplets and exhaled breath caught from the blowholes of killer whales along the Pacific coast are providing scientists with insights into whale...
Caddisworm silk, DNA sleuths, urban streams and more from the University of Utah at ACS
University of Utah chemists gather with their peers in San Francisco next week at the American Chemical Society's National Meeting April 2-6. The theme of...
Not a pipe dream anymore — space-farming: A long legacy leading us to Mars
Credit: NASA Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in 2017,...
USDA announces $4.5 million for higher education support
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of $4.5...
USDA announces $1.9 million for alfalfa and forage research
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of $1.9...
Experts present advances in treating neurological disease at the INS 13th World Congress
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Experts will present diverse advances in neuromodulation from May 27 to June 1, 2017 at the 13th World Congress of the International...
Satellite galaxies at edge of Milky Way coexist with dark matter, says RIT study
Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how...
Glacier photos illustrate climate change
Credit: Photo credit: James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey. Boulder, Colorado, USA: Climate is changing -- there should be zero doubt about this circa...
Methane emissions from trees
Credit: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE/JEFFREY CHASE A new study from the University of Delaware is one of the first in the world to show that tree...
How do plants make oxygen? Ask cyanobacteria
Credit: Fischer Laboratory/Caltech The ability to generate oxygen through photosynthesis--that helpful service performed by plants and algae, making life possible for humans and animals on...
