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New 'smart' homes for dementia sufferers
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Within five years innovative 'smart' sensing systems that will help the UK's 700,000 dementia sufferers live independently at home could be available commercially.
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Metal sheets with DNA framework may enable nanocircuits
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using DNA not as a genetic material but as a structural support, Cornell researchers have created thin sheets of gold nanoparticles held together by strands of DNA. The work could prove useful ...
Graphene Used As Floating-Molecular Carpet To Ornament It With 24-Carat Gold 'Snowflakes'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene.
Low-cost solution processing method developed for CIGS-based solar cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest ...
Energy-efficient water purification
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Water and energy are two resources on which modern society depends. As demands for these increase, researchers look to alternative technologies that promise both sustainability and reduced environmental impact. Engineered ...
Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers (w/ Video)
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have ...
Purdue-developed tool can get most pollution control for the money
Jun 15, 2009 |
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There may be thousands of things large and small that can be done to better control pollution on even the smallest waterways, and a new tool developed at Purdue University may help sort out how to choose the best ones.
'Milking' microscopic algae could yield massive amounts of oil
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Scientists in Canada and India are proposing a surprising new solution to the global energy crisis —“milking” oil from the tiny, single-cell algae known as diatoms, renowned for their intricate, beautifully ...
Tiny plants with a global impact - results of climate change experiment published
Jan 28, 2009 |
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A possible solution to global warming may be further away than ever, according to a new report published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature this week.
Simple test could offer cheap solution to detecting landmines
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Scientists have developed a simple, cheap, accurate test to find undetected landmines.
Magnetic nano-'shepherds' organize cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 31, 2009 |
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The power of magnetism may address a major problem facing bioengineers as they try to create new tissue -- getting human cells to not only form structures, but to stimulate the growth of blood vessels to nourish ...
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