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Spin cycle: a new kind of washer (Video)

Spin cycle: a new kind of washer (Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In many developing countries, electricity is unreliable or unavailable and water must be carried by hand, so conventional modern washing machines are not an option. Washing clothes can take ...


Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (48) | comments 9

A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous ...





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15,000 reasons to worry about invasive species

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A day at the beach in Wisconsin's North Woods didn't used to go like this. Candy Dailey spent a Fourth of July holiday splashing with grandkids on the sandy shore of Lake Metonga when she felt a nasty sting on her foot.


Hunting for new zeolites

Hunting for new zeolites

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline. But thanks to computations ...


Knocking nanoparticles off the socks

Knocking nanoparticles off the socks

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market. Their findings, scheduled ...


It Takes a Solar Village

It Takes a Solar Village

Technology / Energy

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rain didn't ruin the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. University teams successfully operated 20 net-zero, grid-connected solar power homes for a week on the National Mall. Some used ...


New designs for smarter buildings

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After two years of design, experimentation, fund-raising and building, the University of Arizona's Solar Decathlon team has completed construction of its 800-square-foot solar-powered house on the National Mall in Washington, ...


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US trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for research into ageing (Update 3)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Australian-American researcher Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key switch in cellular ageing.


Reclaimed Riddle

Reclaimed Riddle

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It was the "yuck factor" of reclaimed water that got Karyna Rosario thinking. As communities increasingly turn to reclaimed water as a source for irrigation - and some communities consider ...


Solar Home Built by Students

Solar Home Built by Students

Technology / Energy

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 7 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Students from the Boston Architectural College (BAC) and Tufts University have submitted a completely solar-powered home, the Curio House, as New England's entry into the Solar Decathlon competition. ...


Researcher thinks 'inside the box' to create self-contained wastewater system for soldiers, small towns

Researcher thinks 'inside the box' to create self-contained wastewater system for soldiers, small towns

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheaper. Better. Faster. Most people will say you can't have all three. But don't tell that to Dr. Jianmin Wang, a professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri ...


Does the H1N1 vaccine contain mercury?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

In the words of President Obama "don't be alarmed, be prepared" for the swine flu (or, officially, the H1N1 virus). But what if the preparation is more alarming than the flu?



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