New Insights Into Uranium Chemistry Can Aid Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste
A new paper to be published on December 16, 2019, provides a significant new insight into our understanding of uranium biogeochemistry and could help with…
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Enzyme Discovered in Algae Can Convert Waste Cooking Oil Into Ready-to-Use Biofuel
Researchers have found an unusual, light-dependent enzyme in microalgae. A new project at the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, will use the enzyme in a…
Fingerprint Test Can Identify Traces of Heroin — Even After Hand-Washing
Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Between Those Who Have Handled or Taken Heroin A state-of-the-art fingerprint detection technology can identify traces of heroin on human skin,…
New Material Can Better Capture Carbon Dioxide From Factory/Powerplant Exhaust
Generally speaking, “flue gas” refers to any gas coming out of a pipe, exhaust, chimney etc as a product of combustion in a fireplace, oven,…
Incredible New Polymer Fibers Are Ultra Light and Super Strong
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth develop unique multifibrillar fibers. Strong and tough yet as light as a feather – materials with this exceptional combination…
Ultrasensitive Detector Based on Black Silicon Can Detect Trace Amounts of Explosives
Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, and Melbourne Center for Nanofabrication…
This Ultra-Hard Material Is Resistant to Radioactivity – Now It’s Cheap to Make
Boron carbide is used in the design of planes, trains, and cars. University of Seville researchers, led by the professor Francisco Luis Cumbrera, together with…
Cleaner Industrial Emissions by Scrubbing CO2 From Smokestacks
An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could…
Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Valuable Chemicals With Sunlight
Chemists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a method that could turn plastic waste into valuable chemicals by using sunlight. In lab…
Making Stickier, Safer Glues From Food
You cannot make glue out of a ham sandwich – but you may be able to use the components of that food to create a…
New Material Captures Carbon Dioxide – Is Sustainable, Low-Cost & Efficient
In a joint research study from Sweden, scientists from Chalmers University of Technology and Stockholm University have developed a new material for capturing carbon dioxide….
Forget ‘Super’ Glue, Scientists Develop New ‘Hyper’ Glue
Cross-Linking Technology Tightly Binds Where Commercial Glues Cannot With many of the products we use every day held together by adhesives, researchers from UBC’s Okanagan…
Brewing Beer That Tastes Fresh Longer Using Chemistry and Genetics
Unlike wine, which generally improves with time, beer does not age well. Usually within a year of bottling, the beverage starts to develop an unpleasant…
“Venus Flytrap” Bio-Sensors Engineered to Snare Pollutants
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have created a suite of new biological sensors by chemically re-engineering pigments to act like tiny Venus flytraps. The sensors…
Researchers Find New Way to Convert Carbon Dioxide Into Usable Fuel
Scientists devise new catalyst that uses light to turn carbon dioxide to fuel. The concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is steadily increasing, and…
New Way to Split and Sum Photons With Silicon Is Breakthrough for Quantum Computing, Solar Energy
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a way to produce a long-hypothesized…
Material Synthesized That Can Increase/Decrease Volume by 100x Controlled by Electrical Signal
Reversible electronic solid-gel switching of a conjugated polymer. Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have discovered a material that can both increase and reduce…
Argon: Not So Noble in Earth’s Core – Solving the Missing Argon Paradox
The radioactive decay of potassium-40 in Earth’s core is considered one of the main sources of heat powering the geodynamo that generates Earth’s magnetic field….