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Tiny bubbles clean oil from water

Tiny bubbles clean oil from water

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed ...


Wet ethanol production process yields more ethanol and more co-products

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a bigger bang for their buck - ...


New rechargeable zinc-air batteries coming soon

New rechargeable zinc-air batteries coming soon

Technology / Energy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (45) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new breed of rechargeable zinc-air batteries is soon to be available, and may replace lithium-ion batteries in cell phones, laptops and other consumer items. Lithium-ion batteries store ...


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iRobot Unveils Morphing Blob Robot (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- iRobot's latest robot is unique on many levels. The doughy blob moves by inflating and deflating - a new technique its developers call "jamming." As the researchers explain in the video below, ...


New analyzers to unlock mineral value

New analyzers to unlock mineral value

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists are working on a new range of materials characterisation analysers and techniques that could help unlock the value contained in Australia's mineral deposits and improve processing performance, according ...


Replica of the world's best preserved wooly mammoth - a 40,000 year old baby named Lyuba

Baby mammoth preserved in frozen soil heads to Chicago

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Sucked to her death in a muddy river bed, a baby woolly mammoth spent 40,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost where her body was so perfectly preserved traces of her mother's milk remained in her belly.


Energy efficient sewage plants

Technology / Energy

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

High-rate digestion with microfiltration is state-of-the-art in large sewage plants. It effectively removes accumulated sludge and produces biogas to generate energy. A study now reveals that even small plants can benefit ...


The perfect cut

The perfect cut

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

You need the right tool to slice silicon blocks into paper-thin wafers: a several-kilometer-long wire wetted with a type of grinding paste. And all the parameters must be optimally adjusted -- only then can ...


Alternative agricultural practices combine productivity and soil health

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted ...


Alaska's Mount Redoubt has another large eruption (AP)

Alaska's Mount Redoubt has another large eruption

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(AP) -- The Mount Redoubt volcano had another large eruption Saturday after being relatively quiet for nearly a week.


Renewable energy

Barack Obama Announces Another $1.2 billion for Energy R&D

Technology / Energy

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting areas of technological development in the coming years is likely to be energy development -- specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics ...


Farmers harness manure's gases to generate power

Technology / Energy

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Where others see simply manure, Danny Kluthe smells money. Long before President Barack Obama promised the country that "we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil," Kluthe already had yoked the power of pig poop.


Algae Harvest

Success for first outdoor, large-scale algae-to-biofuel research project in Nevada

Biology /

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The first real-world, demonstration-scale project in Nevada for turning algae into biofuel has successfully completed the initial stage of research at the University of Nevada, Reno. The project is on track ...


Researchers fly a kite for manure recycling

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers at North Wyke Research, and Lancaster and Exeter universities, have come up with an advice system to help farmers recycle manure safely and avoid polluting watercourses.


Researchers fly a kite for manure recycling

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 28, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Researchers at North Wyke Research, and Lancaster and Exeter universities, have come up with an advice system to help farmers recycle manure safely and avoid polluting watercourses.