Could corn stalks or old plastic be the new coal?
At the beginning of the last century, there were 1.6 billion people living on the planet. Today, there are 7.7 billion of us.
“Not only...
New neutron detector can fit in your pocket
Researchers demonstrate first stable semiconductor neutron detector
Homeland Security might soon have a new tool to add to its arsenal.
Researchers at Northwestern University and Argonne...
New Nordson MARCH Plasma Treatment System for Manufacturing of Extended Catheters and Larger Products
PROGENY™ system prevents shape deformation from bending or coiling during plasma treatment
Nordson MARCH, a division of Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN), a global leader in...
Physicists shed X-ray light on melting polymers
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Lomonosov Moscow State University have combined thermal analysis and X-ray scattering—two techniques for...
Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have synthesized magnetically-doped quantum dots that capture the kinetic energy of electrons created by ultraviolet light before it’s wasted...
Ford and MacDonald’s collaborate to convert coffee bean skin into car parts
Ford Motor Company and McDonald’s USA will soon be giving vehicles a caffeine boost by using part of a familiar staple in the morning...
Diamonds in your devices: powering the next generation of energy storage
Using conductive nanodiamond as electrode material in a water-based cell significantly increases its energy storage capacity, scientists find supercapacitors, which have begun to stand...
New ‘hyper glue’ formula developed
With many of the products we use every day held together by adhesives, researchers from UBC’s Okanagan campus and the University of Victoria hope...
This thermoplastic is learning a new trick: Walking
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This video illustrates the role of the association process in devising a locomotive robot that ''learns'' to walk by irradiation. The LCN-based robot is...
New Perovskite Nanocrystals Show Enhanced Durability
Perovskite nanocrystals hold promise for improving a wide variety of optoelectronic devices – from lasers to light emitting diodes (LEDs) – but problems with...
