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Scientists considered Nuclear power a prominent energy alternative. It is more environmentally beneficial solution since it emits significantly less greenhouse gas... Read More »
In the latest publication of Nature Chemistry, German scientists have revealed a novel chemical system that displays chemiluminescence under tension. In other words... Read More »
This week saw some changes in the Patexia’s content. One of the main changes is that your truly will be covering the bulk of the news developments -- this also... Read More »
Research conducted by Texas Agrilife at Texas A&M University suggests that biomass gasification is being considered as a possible technology for... Read More »
Hydrogen could be a nice solution for many of our current problems with fossil fuels: it provides dense, portable energy without producing harmful emissions when... Read More »
Early this week, Northwestern Physics undergraduate Zachary G. Nicolaou reported on some peculiar material properties in Nature Materials. What makes these materials... Read More »
Southern California Gas Co. has launched a multi-year demonstration of an advanced concentrated solar cogeneration system. The project’s goal is to benefit area ... Read More »
A team of researchers from Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Duke University is harnessing the remarkable properties of single-walled carbon... Read More »
Stanford University researchers Jerome Bonnet, Pakpoom Subsoontorn and Drew Endy have developed a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data... Read More »
Late last month the consumer tech world buzzed with speculation that the next iphone would be covered in a substance referred to as "Liquidmetal." The type... Read More »
Twenty-eight proves tough-for-business...
Ever since late last year when we heard about difficulties foundries were having with the latest-and-greatest (and... Read More »
Fundamentally, most of the energy we use on the earth comes from the sun -- from fossil fuels to wind and photovoltaics. Nature has been evolutionarily perfecting... Read More »
Spider silks have long been known to posses exception material properties. "Dragline" silk, the silk used to construct the foundations of spider weds... Read More »
The nation's current electric grid is so backward and inflexible that to integrate more sources of renewable energy ironically requires more power plants... Read More »
The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) hosted an open house at its new Pilot-Scale IH2 Plant in Chicago, Illinois to demonstrate the successful efforts to broaden... Read More »
Light of specific wavelengths can be used to boost an enzyme's function by as much as 30 fold, potentially establishing a path to less expensive biofuels... Read More »
Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science are using a one year, $350,000 contract from the US Department of the Interior to test whether sound... Read More »
Today, the authors of a study appearing in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, have found a way to control a heat-loving... Read More »
The gasoline-alternative biofuel candidate 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) demonstrates favorable characteristics to be an effective cold-start fuel, according to a new study ... Read More »
At the 2012 Hannover Messe from April 23 to 27, KIT will present innovations relating to energy, mobility, IT and other topics of relevance to the future. KIT will... Read More »