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Materials Sciences

Efficient CO2 Scrubbing: Cutting Costs for Coal Plants

A means by which the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants might one day be done far more efficiently and at far lower costs than today…

Life & Chemistry

How Velvet Worms Execute Split-Second Slime Attacks

The velvet worm is a slow-moving, unassuming creature. With its soft body, probing antennae, and stubby legs, it looks like a slug on stilts as it creeps along…

Life & Chemistry

Leaf Odor Lures Drosophila Suzukii: Key Insight for Farmers

In 2014, more spotted-wing Drosophila suzukii than ever before were observed in Germany. This pest lays its eggs in fresh and ripening fruits before they are…

Trade Fair News

Maritime Sensor & Vehicle Technology of the Fraunhofer IBMT at the Hanover Fair 2015

For two decades, the Fraunhofer IBMT develops ultrasound systems and transducers. The results of this work can be found in many products in the market. In…

Physics & Astronomy

Rocket Science Innovations Transform Kidney Dialysis Techniques

A team of researchers in the United Kingdom has found a way to redesign an artificial connection between an artery and vein, known as an Arterio-Venous…

Innovative Products

Textured Rubber Innovation for Better Grip on Icy Surfaces

Winter storms dumped records amounts of snow on the East Coast and other regions of the country this February, leaving treacherous, icy sidewalks and roads in…

Materials Sciences

Graphene ‘Gateway’ Discovery Opens Possibilities for Improved Energy Technologies

The work, published in the March 17 issue of Nature Communications, pinpoints unprecedented proton movement through inherent atomic-scale defects, or gaps, in…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Aqua Satellite Monitors Tropical Cyclone Bavi’s Decline

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite revealed warming infrared temperature data of Tropical Cyclone…

Life & Chemistry

Plants' defensive responses have downstream effects on nearby ecosystems

Graduate student Sara Jackrel and Timothy Wootton, PhD, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, simulated herbivory, or the activity of insects…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Key Management Effects to Reduce Corn Yield Gaps

A recent study from the Illinois Crop Physiology Laboratory, led by Fred Below, a U of I crop physiologist, provides the first estimate of the corn yield gap…

Information Technology

Updating Recycling Standards for 3D Printing Filament Costs

Buying plastic filament for printing can be expensive, says Joshua Pearce, the lead researcher in the Open Sustainability Technology group at Michigan…

Information Technology

Data Structures Impact Quantum Search Speed in Surprising Ways

Using the quantum property of superposition, quantum computers will be able to find target items within large piles of data far faster than conventional…

Physics & Astronomy

New Study Maps Habitable Zone Planets Around Most Stars

By analysing these planetary systems, researchers from the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have calculated the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Unveiling Super Solar Power: The Promise of Perovskites

The best hope for cheap, super-efficient solar power is a remarkable family of crystalline materials called hybrid perovskites. In just five years of…

Physics & Astronomy

Breakthrough in Controlling Heat Bursts in Fusion Experiments

Scientists performed the experiments on the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a tokamak operated by General Atomics in San Diego. The findings represent a key…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Columbia Engineers Innovate Full-Duplex Radio ICs for Data Boost

A team of Columbia Engineering researchers has invented a technology—full-duplex radio integrated circuits (ICs)—that can be implemented in nanoscale CMOS to…

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