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New Rechargeable Lithium Batteries Could Jump-start Hybrid Electric Car Efficiency
Researchers are helping to develop new rechargeable batteries that could improve hybrid electric cars in the future. For hybrid cars, new materials are crucial to make the batteries lighter, safer...
Water Purification Down The Nanotubes: Could Nanotechnology Solve The Water Crisis?
Nanotechnology could be the answer to ensuring a safe supply of drinking water for regions of the world stricken by periodic drought or where water contamination is rife. Writing in...
New Mechanism To Produce Energy From Biomass
Scientists have developed a system that can improve the efficiency of the conversion process of biomass to fuel gas that will contribute to the production of energy in a more...
Engineers Work To Clean And Improve Engine Performance
Iowa State University's Song-Charng Kong and his students are working to reduce emissions in diesel engines, develop a computer model of a gasoline engine and optimize new engine technologies. The...
NASA Eyes Nuclear Power for Moon Base
Nuclear power offers advantages for a long-term stay on the moon.
Lithium battery for many vehicles seen a ways off
ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY, Illinois (Reuters) - Vast improvements are needed to extend the life and lower the cost of lithium batteries before they can efficiently power vehicles, a U.S. government...
All-electric vehicles no magic bullet: scientist
ARGONNE, Illinois (Reuters) - A future of all-electric cars coasting along streets and highways may be illusory, given that their range may be cut in half by aggressive drivers speeding...
Slicing Solar Power Costs: New Method Cuts Waste In Making Most Efficient Solar Cells
Engineers have devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new...
Flower-shaped Nanoparticles May Lead To Better Batteries For Portable Electronics
Want more power and longer battery life for that cell phone, laptop, and digital music player? "Flower power" may be the solution. Chemists are reporting development of flower-shaped nanoparticles with...
Global Shortages Of Radio Isotopes For Cancer Diagnosis May Be A Thing Of The Past
Thanks to a newly-developed technology, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past.
Tapping Power From Trash
Methane, an ozone-damaging greenhouse gas produced by landfills, is being captured and increasingly used to generate electricity and heat.
Greenhouse gas tech meeting to be held
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy says it will help host an international conference focusing on Greenhouse Gas Technology.
World's Smallest UWB Antenna Introduced
Virginia Tech researchers have developed an efficient compact ultra-wideband antenna (CUA) for a range of home, automotive, medical, and military applications. The antenna has achieved a near optimal performance for...
Closest Look Ever At Graphene: Stunning Images Of Individual Carbon Atoms From TEAM 0.5 Microscope
Hailed as the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope, TEAM 0.5 is living up to expectations. Using the microscope, researchers have produced stunning images of individual carbon atoms in graphene,...
Prototype Superconductor For Tokamak Fusion Reactor Proves Successful
Fusion for Energy (F4E) with the support of the European Commission, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and ITER Organisation have successfully tested a prototype superconductor for the ITER Poloidal Field...
Seeing Through The Skin: Optic-less Imaging Technology Could Beat Lens-based Imaging Devices
Feeling blue? According one researcher, humans may have an ability to “see” colors and shapes with their skin. His optic-less imaging model could lead to a new form of optical...
Hotline To The Cowshed
A wireless measuring system, consisting of sensors and transmission units, helps to keep livestock healthier with a minimum use of resources.
Better Health Through Your Cell Phone
Researchers have advanced a novel lens-free imaging technique on the path to use in medical diagnostic applications that promise to improve global health related disease monitoring, such as malaria and...
Nanoscale Silver: No Silver Lining?
Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research priorities concerning this...
Future Nanoelectronics May Face Obstacles
Combining ordinary electronics with light has been a potential way to create minimal computer circuits with super fast information transfer. Researchers are now showing that there is a limit. When...
World-first To Predict Premature Births
Australian researchers and a pathology company have joined forces to develop a world-first computerized system which may reveal a way to predict premature birth with greater accuracy.
Nanoscale structure transformation seen
LIVERMORE, Calif., Sept. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have used a Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope to obtain high-resolution snapshots of the transformation of nanoscale structures.
Colloids light the way to printable electronics
Cheap electronic devices can be printed using commercial printing presses thanks to light-emitting colloidal inks
Oxyfuel carbon capture trial launched
Prototype power plant also world’s first to capture and store its carbon dioxide
Laminin Builds The Neuromuscular Synapse
Like a plug and a socket, a nerve and a muscle fiber mesh at the neuromuscular junction. New work reveals that an extracellular matrix protein called laminin shapes both sides...
Equipment may have been faulty: pathologist
Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer inquiry has testified that he still believes equipment played a role in faulty tests, even though external reviews pointed to human error.
Holes prevent sound from passing through plate
'Extraordinary sound screening' could lead to new acoustic materials
Science Weekly podcast: British Association Festival of Science from Liverpool; plus Cern's LHC switch on in Geneva
James Randerson presents a special podcast from the BA Festival of Science in Liverpool, plus coverage of the LHC switch on at Cern