Tailor-made membranes for the environment
Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich In technical systems, membranes can be used to separate gases - in a manner that is more efficient and cost-effective than with...
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Springer launches new journal Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics
Credit: Springer Starting in 2017, Springer will publish the journal Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics (RMPP), the official journal of the Division of Plasma Physics...
New technology of ultrahigh density optical storage researched at Kazan University
According to current estimates, dozens of zettabytes of information will need to be placed somewhere by 2020. New physical principles must be found, the ones...
Better than milk on breakfast cereals: New precision coating method for industrial granular material
As anyone who eats their cereal with milk in the morning knows: coating large volumes of granular material homogeneously is no mean feat. In a...
Breaking good: School students make costly drug cheaply using open source approach
Credit: University of Sydney Sydney Grammar students, under the supervision of the University of Sydney and global members of the Open Source Malaria consortium, have...
Agreement signed between Kumamoto University, Japan and the Institut Pasteur, France
Credit: Dr. Naomi Nakagata The Institute of Resource Development and Analysis (IRDA) of Kumamoto University, Japan held a signing ceremony for an agreement on institutional...
Just keep going
Credit: Wits University When one thinks about chronic conditions that are commonly painful, HIV doesn't typically spring to mind. However, more than 50% of HIV-positive...
Does investment in sustainable farming pay off?
Exploring the nascent field of sustainable farmland investment, a new report from the Yale Center for Business and the Environment found that innovative investment strategies...
Cycad seed tissue loaded with carbohydrates
Credit: Thomas Marler Learning how to make a seed was one of the crucial transitions for the world's plants. The competitive advantages that seed-producing plants...
UBC researcher says management of pine beetle not working
A method to control the spread of mountain pine beetles -- pheromone baiting -- may actually help the pest's population increase, UBC research shows. A...
VTT’s spin off company to measure shopping intentions in physical stores
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a unique solution to measure in-store shopper's intentions. The implementation respects privacy - no identity information of...
Throwing new light on printed organic solar cells
Research from the University of Surrey reveals scientists are able to improve the efficiency of solar cells more than threefold The solar cells are a...
Discovery by NUS researchers suggests new possibility in treating aggressive ovarian cancer
A recent discovery by researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) may lead to a...
Deep insights from surface reactions
Credit: Tiantian Zhang, Tao Wei, Yuanyuan Han, Heng Ma, Mohammadreza Samieegohar, Ping-Wei Chen, Ian Lian, and Yu-Hwa Lo Things that happen on the surface are...
First signs of weird quantum property of empty space?
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada A team led by Roberto Mignani from INAF Milan (Italy) and from the University of Zielona Gora (Poland), used ESO's Very Large...
