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Oil Demand Slowing, Says Energy Agency
U.S. oil consumption is expected to level off with virtually no growth between now and 2030 because of increases in energy efficiency, greater use of renewable fuels and an expected...
US firms join forces to build lithium ion batteries for cars
Fourteen US technology companies, laying down the gauntlet in a field dominated by Asia, announced Thursday that they have formed an alliance to manufacture lithium ion batteries for electric cars.
European First As ALICE Achieves Energy Recovery At 11 Million Volts
Scientists have successfully demonstrated energy recovery on the ALICE advanced particle accelerator design, potentially paving the way for new accelerators using a fraction of the energy required under conventional methods.
Wave Energy: New System Captures Significantly More Wave Energy Than Existing Systems
Scientists have designed a pilot-scale device that will capture significantly more of the energy in ocean waves than existing systems, and have used it to power an electricity-generating turbine.
Non-toxic Clean-up Method For Potentially Toxic Nano Materials Created Using Horseradish Enzyme
Scientists have developed the first natural, nontoxic method for biodegrading carbon nanotubes, a finding that could help diminish the environmental and health concerns that mar the otherwise bright prospects of...
Answers To Huge Wind-farm Problems Are Blowin' In The Wind
While harnessing more energy from the wind could help satisfy growing demands for electricity and reduce emissions of global-warming gases, turbulence from proposed wind farms could adversely affect the growth...
Engineers helping develop energy-harvesting radios
If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge...
Seeing the unseen with 'super-resolution' fluorescence microscopy
Thanks to a new 'super-resolution' fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometres (nm), an order of magnitude smaller...
U.S., U.K. citizens like nanotechnology
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A new study suggests citizens in both the United States and the United Kingdom view nanotechnologies very positively.
Feature: Medical diagnosis at a pinch
Laser beams are already used to manipulate and study red blood cells. Now Swinburne University of Technology scientists have taken their research into the nano-realm and are planning to shed...
Attosecond flashes from solid-density relativistic plasmas
Recent innovations in laser technology have provided radiation sources for attosecond (10 to the power of -18 sec) light flashes that can freeze the ultrafast motion of electrons inside atoms...
Space technology to soothe Roadster ride
Space missions are highly complex operations, not only because the satellites or space probes are unique pieces of top-notch intricate high-tech, but also because it is so challenging to get...
Nature, nanotechnology fuse in electric yarn that detects blood
A carbon nanotube-coated 'smart yarn' that conducts electricity could be woven into soft fabrics that detect blood and monitor health, engineers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated...
Fast, cheap melamine detector duo will outfox dairy frauds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two easy-to-use new ways of detecting melamine on the production line are reported in the Royal Society of Chemistry`s Chemical Communications.
Light Shines For Potential Early Cancer Diagnosis Technique
Scientists have developed a new optical technique that holds promise for minimally invasive screening methods for the early diagnosis of cancer. The researchers have shown for the first time that...
GPS Angel: Red Light and Speed Camera Warning System
(PhysOrg.com) -- The all new GPS Angel Red Light/Speed Camera warning system is designed to warn you of red lights and fixed speed cameras. It's completely road legal and easy...
Solar Flare Surprise: Stream Of Perfectly Intact Hydrogen Atoms Detected
Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million hydrogen bombs, they obliterate everything in their immediate vicinity. Not a...
New Hybrid Nanostructures Detect Nanoscale Magnetism
Researchers have created a new process for growing a single multi-walled carbon nanotube that is embedded with cobalt nanostructures. Using this new hybrid material, the team determined that the electrical...
Arthur Kantrowitz dies at 95; physicist pioneered rocket nose cones, intra-aorta pumps
Though his expertise was in fluid mechanics, his interests were wide-ranging, including early experiments in nuclear fusion and fighting for the creation of a science court. ...
Calif. agency orders heavy-duty diesel trucks to have soot traps on exhaust pipes
California is snuffing out the last of the old stogies on the road. Against the backdrop of recession, the state's smog-fighting Air Resources Board on Friday ordered owners of all...
UC San Diego Adds Power Storage to Fuel Cell Project, Part of 'Smart Energy Grid'
(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of California, San Diego plans to store power produced at night from a planned 2.8 megawatt "green" fuel cell and use the energy during peak-demand hours...
Measuring conductance of carbon nanotubes, one by one
(PhysOrg.com) -- A single batch of carbon nanotubes -- molecular carbon cylinders that may one day revolutionize electronics engineering -- often includes more than 100 types of tubes, each with...
Spinning 'Orbita' Mouse Available in January
It looks like a large shiny button, but the round object is actually the world's first wireless three-axis mouse, according to its designers, an Australian technology company called Cyber Sport....
Turning over a new leaf for future energy supplies
A global energy supply based on biomass grown to generate electricity and produce fuel is a real possibility. According to Prof. Juergen O. Metzger from Carl von Ossietzky University of...
Reel Science reviews "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
Science, government, organized religion, rationalism, and Giants Stadium take it on the chin in Twentieth Century Fox's remake of the 1951 science fiction classic
'Uncontrollable' nuclei sharpen up MRI
The solution to a theoretical puzzle could provide the basis for improved MRI techniques.
Water currents tapped as renewable energy
The force of moving water can also provide a clean, affordable and unobtrusive source of renewable energy, says engineer Michael Bernitsas, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Radical Scavengers in Red Smear Cheeses
(PhysOrg.com) -- Carotenoids not only give carrots and red smear cheeses, such as Munster, Limburger, and Romadur, their characteristic red color, but they also protect organisms from oxidative stress. A...