New Sensor Can Detect Valuable Rare Earth Element in Waste Sources
Low concentrations of terbium could be identified from acid mine drainage and other waste sources. A new luminescent sensor can detect terbium, a valuable rare…
Wastewater
Scientists Infuse Bacteria With Silver Nanoparticles To Improve Power Efficiency in Fuel Cells
A UCLA-led team of engineers and chemists has taken a major step forward in the development of microbial fuel cells — a technology that utilizes…
Leaky Sewers Contaminating Streams With Substantial Amounts of Medications
Pharmaceutical compounds can harm the environment. However, in waterways that don’t receive treated wastewater, these pollutants aren’t expected to be present. Now, researchers reporting in…
Innovative New Way To Detect the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha Variant in Wastewater
SMART researchers have developed an innovative method to detect and quantify the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant of concern via wastewater epidemiology. Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance…
Innovative Nanomaterials To Decontaminate Water
Important funding for the intersectoral research work of two INRS professors. Patrick Drogui and My Ali El Khakani, professors at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS),…
Are Laundry and Dish Pods Biodegradable? Not Exactly
Outer pod packaging needs a specific environment to completely biodegrade. The simplicity of grabbing a laundry or dishwasher pod and tossing it into the machine…
Surprising Secret to Making Stronger Concrete: Sewage
A by-product of steel making can be used to both treat wastewater and make stronger concrete. Researchers have shown how a by-product of steel making…
Waste to Energy Technology Commercially Available in the US
Is your company looking for their very own high-solid anaerobic digestion system? Well look no more. Invented by a researcher at UC Davis, this commercially…
Understanding Pollution from Green-Glowing Zebrafish
As population grows and consumption increases, so does waste and pollution. Scientists have been working on a way to better track and understand how pollution…
NASA Explores OMEGA System for Alternative Aviation Fuels
In an effort to create an alternative way to produce aviation fuels, NASA is exploring the Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae method for biofuel….