Researchers have discovered how Native Americans may have survived the last Ice Age after splitting from their Asian relatives 25,000 years ago. Academics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Universities of Colorado and Utah ...
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 phone will launch in April and will the first smartphone to feature a dedicated heart rate monitor. Mounted near the device's flash, the monitor requires users to place a finger on the sensor to measure the pulse ...
Tags: Heart Rate Monitor, Samsung
Acuity Brands, Inc. introduces Predator® LED floodlights from Holophane® that save up to 60 percent in energy costs, while cutting maintenance by as much as 50 percent compared to a metal halide floodlight. The Predator family is ...
Tags: LED Floodlights, Lighting
When a piece of gift-wrapping tape sticks to itself, it's frustrating, but when small parts in a microgear or micromotor stick together, an electronic device may not work well, if at all. Researchers now report in the journal ACS Applied ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Solar Power Systems can be a good alternative to the energy derived from limited fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas. More than 85 percent of the energy consumed around the world comes from these resources and if these resources ...
BASF increased its energy efficiency by 20 percent compared with baseline 2002 and reduced its greenhouse gas emissions per metric ton of sales product by 34 percent. The number of work-related accidents dropped in the same period by 58 ...
Tags: BASF, Construction Coating
Desmet Ballestra has completed the installation of an oil refining and processing equipment developed by Cavitation Technologies (CTI) at soybean oil refinery in South Korea. The Nano Neutralization equipment is capable of processing more ...
Iceland-based food processing solutions provider Marel has unveiled FleXicut, a new whitefish processing line for bone detection and removal. Unlike the traditional process, the automated equipment has been developed to eliminate the need ...
BARE, creator of delicious “Snacks Gone Simple,” has announced a new line of All Natural Crunchy Coconut Chips, crafted from sweet and fragrant Nam Hom coconuts grown exclusively in Thailand’s Central Plains. BARE All ...
Tags: BARE, Natural Coconut Chips
About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $12.7 million in grants to help small drinking and wastewater systems – those serving fewer than 10,000 people – and to private well owners. The grantees will provide training ...
Tags: EPA, Certification
MacGregor's three-axis motion compensated crane wins premier offshore industry innovation award. MacGregor's three-axis motion compensated offshore crane has won the Offshore Support Journal's (OSJ) Innovation of the Year award. The news ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
Martinson-Nicholls, a pioneer in anti-slip floor mats for histology labs, has announced their new ViSpa Diamond Deluxe floor matting to prevent slips and falls in medical, chemical and industrial laboratories. Histology labs routinely ...
Tags: Martinson-Nicholls, Textile
Cotton arrivals were brisk all over Cotton Mandies during fortnight ending February 28. Quality has been not to the required level in terms of fineness and uniformity etc since there was mixing up of 1st and 2nd pickings. Cotton prices ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Apparel
In a recent early online edition of Nature Chemistry, ASU scientists, along with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory, have reported advances toward perfecting a functional artificial leaf. Designing an artificial leaf that uses ...
Tags: Chemicals, Nature Chemistry, Hydrogen