Could microalgae fuel the future? Researchers are fine-tuning a technology that transforms wet algal biomass into a biogas that is compatible with today's natural gas infrastructure. Microalgae derived biogas is becoming an increasingly ...
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It is night time on Friday 21 February 2014 in southwest Brisbane and the rain is lashing down so hard that guests standing at the back of Andrew Barton Laundry’s state-of-art, one-week-old warehouse cannot hear managing director ...
Tired of winter yet? If you're a wheat farmer, your crop probably is, too. The last few weeks have seen hard red winter wheat conditions slumping in the heart of the nation’s Wheat Belt. Many areas have lacked the snow cover to keep ...
Engineers trying to speed up communication between computer chips have been working on using beams of light to replace the copper traces that shuttle data between microprocessors. Now a pair of researchers at Northeastern University in ...
New Generation Power Texas, LLC (NGP Texas), a Texas-based renewable energy company, has begun the first phase of construction on their 400 Megawatt (MW) Texas Wind Farm. The newly formed subsidiary of Chicago- based New Generation Power ...
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Designer Alex Woo’s new pendant for the movie Bears is available in sterling silver or 14-karat gold. New York--Designer Alex Woo has crafted two pendants inspired by Disney’s new film Bears, which is narrated by actor John C. ...
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On Wednesday, Apple removed the Blockchain wallet app, the only remaining app that could be used to make Bitcoin payments on the iOS platform, from its App Store. And Bitcoiners are pissed off. How pissed off? One particular Apple customer ...
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Inspired by tiny particles that carry cholesterol through the body, MIT chemical engineers have designed nanoparticles that can deliver snippets of genetic material that turn off disease-causing genes. This approach, known as RNA ...
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Soccer is the most-popular and fastest-growing sport in the world and, like many contact sports, players are at risk of suffering concussions from collisions on the field. But researchers warned in a paper published today that not enough ...
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Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon University Announce a unique micro-robotic technique to assemble the components of complex materials Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Carnegie Mellon ...
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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars today revealed that its Bespoke business has become more successful than ever with content on its range of super-luxury cars reaching new heights in 2013. Almost 95% of Rolls-Royce cars purchased last year were ...
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The new Ricoh WG-4 GPS ($379) brings the Ricoh brand to the former Pentax all-weather camera family. Related ricoh Ricoh Theta Users Can Now Post To Google Maps ricoh Ricoh Adds 20-40mm Pentax ‘Limited Lens’ ricoh Ricoh Begins ...
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IBM has built on their previous graphene research and developed what is being reported as the best graphene-based integrated circuit (IC) built to date, with 10 000 times better performance than previously reported efforts. This ...
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In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a potentially general approach to design drugs from genome sequence. As a proof of ...
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with the Max Planck Institute in Germany, has found that temperature feedback in the Arctic is causing more warming in that region than sea ice albedo. In their paper published in the journal Nature ...
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