In a move to check pollution, the European Parliament (EP) has voted in favour of limiting the use of thin plastic bags in Europe. As per the new law, EU citizens will have to reduce their annual average consumption of ...
Researchers in Korea and USA have developed sidewall emission-enhanced (SEE) deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to improve light extraction efficiency DUV LEDs with wavelengths less than 300nm become very inefficient due ...
Tags: Light-Emitting Diodes, LEDs
Another week of spring planting's come and gone, and the last 7 days saw farmers make a much bigger stride with corn planting than the previous 2 weeks, and that speedy pace is expected to last through at least the next week, forecasters ...
Tags: Corn, Agriculture
Specialty textile dyes manufacturer is showing its extensive range of innovative solutions for the technical textiles sector at the upcoming Techtextil, which runs from May 4-7, 2015 in Hall 3.1 Booth C-61. “Visitors will be able ...
Tags: Technical Textiles, Techtextil, DyStar
The Federation of India Export Organisations (FIEO) wants government backing to arrest falling exports.FIEO president SC Ralhan said the trade data for the month of the March, 2015 showed a decline of over 21 per cent in exports and close ...
Tags: Govt Support, Falling Exports
An insect-inspired microphone that can tackle the problem of locating sounds and eliminate background noise is set to revolutionise modern-day hearing aid systems.Despite remarkable advances in sound analysis in hearing aids, the actual ...
Tags: Hearing Aids, medical device
This started as a blog post about creative exhibit design, but turned into a post about creative exhibit designers, because without the designers, you don’t get the creative design. It’s that simple. Creative exhibit ...
Whether they are in the lounge, in the kitchen or elsewhere in their homes, Africans are now being given a front-row view of how their world, and the world of trade, is changing. Their guides are the appliances they use to make their ...
Wheat futures told the story best early Monday morning: An 11-cent drop in the nearby futures contract in overnight trading was a surefire sign that it rained in the Plains . . . or that the trade thinks it did. Rain did fall, but it ...
One of the oldest ways to fertilise crops was “slash and burn” agriculture, where tropical forests are intentionally levelled and burned to create open space and nutrients for crops. In the US, this month’s innovation ...
Tags: Low Cost Fertiliser, Fertiliser
Fourteen months after General Motors started recalling more than 2 million small cars with faulty ignition switches worldwide, the company says it has repaired about 70 percent of the vehicles that are still on the road. The figures, ...
Tags: GM, Ignition Switches, Manufacturing
Electric vehicles have been developing rapidly from the original hybrids, to parallel/serial and plug-in hybrids through the optimization of power drive designs. Since then, the industry has been able to develop all-electric models as the ...
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Global Trends, Audi
World Health Day 2015 focuses on food safety The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dedicated World Health Day 2015, which it is celebrating today, 7 April 2015, to highlighting the challenges and opportunities associated with food ...
Tags: food safety, Food production, Food
PwC is planning to aid governments and food companies to address the major issues of food safety, security and quality by declaring open its global food supply and integrity services business—established, developed and run from New ...
Tags: integrity services, political issue, Food
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed gallium antimonide (GaSb) thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells on gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates [Bor-Chau Juang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111101, 2015]. The use of GaAs ...
Tags: TPV devices, lattice mismatch, Electronics