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Reducing Pollution: Green Future For Scrap Iron
November 7, 2008 — Engineers have shown that the biological treatment of industrial wastewater can be dramatically enhanced by pretreating the waste with non-oxidized iron. Researchers use zero valent iron to detoxify ... > full story -
High-temperature Superconductors: New Method Exploring 'Energy Gap' Shows Electron Pairs Exist Before Superconductivity Sets In
November 7, 2008 — Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, physicists have found ways to sharpen images of the energy spectra in high-temperature superconductors -- materials ... > full story -
Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap With New Optical Technique
November 6, 2008 — A novel technique under development uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions with nanoscale measurement ... > full story -
Bare Bones Of Crystal Growth: Biomolecules Enhance Metal Contents In Calcite
November 6, 2008 — A finding that a hydrophilic peptide significantly enhances the magnesium-content of calcite is especially meaningful for geologists because Mg-content in carbonates is used as a 'paleo thermometer'. ... > full story -
Could Life Have Started In Lump Of Ice? Very Cold Ice Films In Laboratory Reveal Mysteries Of Universe
November 5, 2008 — The universe is full of water, mostly in the form of very cold ice films deposited on interstellar dust particles, but until recently little was known about the detailed small scale structure. Now ... > full story -
High-performance Steel For Possible Use In ITER Fusion Project Developed
November 5, 2008 — Researchers have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion ... > full story -
Solar Power Game-changer: 'Near Perfect' Absorption Of Sunlight, From All Angles
November 4, 2008 — Researchers have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy. By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured ... > full story -
Using Living Cells As Nanotechnology Factories
November 4, 2008 — In the tiny realm of nanotechnology, scientists have used a wide variety of materials to build atomic scale structures. But just as in the construction business, nanotechnology researchers can often ... > full story -
Mending Broken Hearts With Tissue Engineering
November 4, 2008 — Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold. The new scaffold approach could also aid the engineering of other ... > full story -
Smart Fabrics, The New Black
November 4, 2008 — Smart fabrics and intelligent textiles – material that incorporates cunning molecules or clever electronics – is thriving and European research efforts are tackling some of the ... > full story -
Cleaning Heavily Polluted Water At A Fraction Of The Cost
November 2, 2008 — A European research project has succeeded in developing a water treatment system for industrial oil polluted water at a tenth of the cost of other commercially available tertiary treatments, leaving ... > full story -
Sea Urchin Yields Key Secret Of Biomineralization
November 1, 2008 — The teeth and bones of mammals, the protective shells of mollusks, and the needle-sharp spines of sea urchins and other marine creatures are made-from-scratch wonders of ... > full story
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