A new Lab dedicated to tackling the scientific challenges posed by the world's demand for energy is launched today at Imperial College London.
The Energy Futures Lab is a focal point for energy research across the...
Chinese researchers have genetically modified tobacco and a species of algae to remove toxic heavy metals such as mercury from soil and water.
As a cheap and effective way of eliminating heavy metal pollution from the...
Hoping to reduce the nation's growing inventory of stored spent nuclear fuel, a group of nuclear engineering faculty, scientists and students from Big Ten universities, the University of Chicago and the U.S. Departme...
Like a case on a television show called Unsolved Mysteries, North Dakota State University researchers Kalpana S. Katti, Ph.D., and Dinesh R. Katti, Ph.D., are intrigued by a substance whose beauty belies its strength. Wh...
Dirt in the wrong place can destroy entire production batches in many branches of industry. But constant cleaning is expensive. Specially coated easy-to-clean surfaces can considerably reduce the amount of cleaning invol...
The hardening of paint with UV light is uncharted territory for the automotive industry. This situation may soon change: Engineers need no longer puzzle out the optimum positions of UV lamps in a test facility, but can s...
Soft paper hankies are produced on huge rollers at a speed of up to two kilometers per minute. The roller surface has to be very flat and smooth. A new grinding machine works with micrometer accuracy and cuts downtime by...
Borealis and Novolen have announced that they have entered into a license agreement allowing Novolen’s metallocene single-site polypropylene (PP) technology rights to be available to Borealis.
This agreement gr...
Asylum Research has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with the Institut Curie of Paris for their Atomic Force Microscope patent on magnetic actuated cantilever technology. The license agreement covers use in US ...
Light can carry data at much higher rates than electricity, but it has always been too expensive and difficult to use light to transmit data among silicon chips in electronic devices. Now, electrical engineers at Stanfor...