For the eighth year in a row, Fraunhofer IAO and Management Circle have recognized companies that have demonstrated excellence in the field of commercial…
Lighting technology is in a state of change. The old-fashioned light-bulb, which was more efficient at converting electricity into heat than light, is…
The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) is the smallest research institute on the Max Planck Campus in Tübingen, Germany. Two of its research group leaders,…
Tense shoulders, neck strain or a painful wrist are not uncommon among those who spend long periods of time working at a computer. Indeed, this sort of problem…
Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America – even though the extraction of metals from the…
Verbleites Benzin war in Südamerika bis zu seinem Verbot eine stärkere Quelle von Emissionen des giftigen Schwermetalls Blei als der Bergbau. Dies, obwohl die…
Red, yellow, green: The traffic signal labels on packages are supposed to be an easy-to-understand indication of the overall “healthiness” of a food product….
In contrast to the energy and fuel sectors that are influenced by government targets for green alternatives, the chemical industry is mainly driven by market…
James Cook University Distinguished Research Professor, William Laurance is the lead author of the study, which has been published in the journal Current…
Questions such as how do we reconcile GR and Quantum Theory? What is Dark Matter? And what is Dark Energy? These are what keep most physicists awake late at…
The findings, reported recently in Nature Communications, provide an extremely detailed glimpse into the mechanisms behind normal and irregular heart muscle…
While the pattern for making a wearable fabric battery has already been laid out, it’s now time to select the threads that will turn a textile into an energy…
Babbler Rising: Bird thought to be Extinct Re-emerges in Neglected Area
As everyone who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area knows, the Earth moves under our feet. But what about the stresses that cause earthquakes? How much is…
Just when you thought hurricanes couldn't get any scarier, think again.
Wild Yaks: Shaggy Barometers of Climate Change