Driven by lower costs and emissions, the trucking industry is slowly shifting towards natural gas engines. A report by Navigat Research, a consulting team that analyzes global clean technology markets, forecasts that sales of natural gas ...
A new class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides-ADEPs-may provide a new way to attack bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics. Researchers at Brown and MIT have discovered a way to increase the potency of ADEPs by up to ...
Scientists have developed an acoustic lens that produces pressure pulses that are so intense they're called "sound bullets." Although they are too high-pitched to be audible to the human ear, the sound bullets could have a variety of uses ...
Tags: sound bullets, Instruments, Meters, Health, Medicine
Pork exports during November were down 2.9% compared to a year earlier due to almost no pork going to Russia. Pork imports were up 14.3% in November due to more pork from Canada. In November, 22.2% of U.S. pork production was exported. ...
Tags: Pork, Agriculture, Food
Health experts say they doubt a smoking ban in China will reduce the size of the country's smoking population. The estimated 350 million smokers in China face a ban on public smoking, to be imposed by the Chinese National Health and ...
As open as the Canadian market is to LNG vehicles, it still pales behind the reception China is giving the alternative fuel. According to Tom Campbell, head of analysis at Zeus Intelligence, a research company specializing in LNG and ...
Tags: LNG Vehicles, alternative fuel
We were pleasantly surprised by the number of robotics announcements at CES this year. In the past it's been a bit of a snoozefest, since robotics companies didn't want to tussle with all of the other major electronics manufacturers for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
While many believe that the key to producing the next generation of chips lies in developing better manufacturing techniques for nanomaterials rather than just creating new nanomaterials, there are others who simply can't resist the ...
Tags: mimics graphene, Construction, Chemicals
Today's headlines include reports about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that people who get their health insurance through high-risk insurance pools will have an extra two months before this program ends. ...
Tags: high-risk insurance, White House, Obamacare, Health Law
The battery problem that last year afflicted Boeing's worldwide fleet of 787 Dreamliners appears to have recurred. Japan Airlines grounded its 787s Wednesday after workers noticed smoke emanating from a battery pack on a 787 they were ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
CES 2014 broke records, as CES seems to do every year, and with the massive amount of people and the overflowing number of vendors, it’s easy to miss a lot. That’s why editors Chris Fox and Jason Lomberg traveled to Las Vegas ...
Tags: CES 2014, Electronics
Disruptive innovation is at it again with the new M18 Milwaukee blower. ?Well it may not be that disruptive because Makita has had one for a while now. ?The 0884-20?puts out a bit more CFM than the Makita but with less airspeed. ?Recently ...
Tags: blower, Tools, Hardware, Industrial Equipment, Components
Yamaha's $649-suggested MCR-N560 micro-component system incorporates AirPlay, DLNA 1.5 and Internet radio station streaming. Related yamaha Yamaha Diversifies With Premium Clock Radio yamaha Yamaha Adds High-End Statement Speaker yamaha ...
Tags: Electronics, Consumer Electronics, Tabletop, YAMAHA
Ocean researchers working on the coral reefs of Palau in 2011 and 2012 made two unexpected discoveries that could provide insight into corals' resistance and resilience to ocean acidification, and aid in the creation of a plan to protect ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Inspired by nature and by the aviation pioneers of the early 20th century, scientists in the United States said Wednesday they had built the world's first jellyfish aircraft. The tiny, ultra-light lab machine, weighing just 2.1 grammes ...