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Automotive Engineering

Hydrogen Storage Solutions for Future Cars Explained

Hydrogen is the fuel of the future. Unfortunately, one problem remains: Hydrogen is a gas and cannot easily be pumped into a tank like gasoline. Storage in the…

Information Technology

New Media Innovations Transforming User Experience in 2023

The changes wrought by the internet, by broadband and by IPTV on media distribution are immense. User experience, too, is undergoing a sea change:…

Life & Chemistry

Sea Cucumber Protein: A New Approach to Malaria Prevention

Malaria is caused by parasites whose lives begin in the bodies of mosquitoes. When mosquitoes feed on the blood of an infected human, the malaria parasites…

Health & Medicine

Nobel Direct’s Innovation Struggles After Three Years

Nobel Direct was launched in 2004 by Nobel Biocare AB. The implants were considered a great innovation, as they could be screwed directly into the jawbone…

Business and Finance

EU Commission Partners with ScanBalt to Boost SMEs Innovation

The project will identify regional bottlenecks in ScanBalt BioRegion for linking academic research with SME´s in order to enhance innovation, develop an…

Life & Chemistry

Flu Vaccine Powder: A Promising Solution for Pandemics?

All that could change, says PhD student Jean-Pierre Amorij of the University of Groningen. In his thesis he describes a way of storing flu vaccine in powder…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Insights Reveal Hidden Animal Species

Today sophisticated genetic techniques mean that superficially identical animals previously classed as members of a single species, including the frogs and…

Life & Chemistry

Predator pressures maintain bees’ social life

The ancient systems of sociality in bees, wasps, termites, and ants seem to have become an obligatory way of life for these organisms as there are almost no…

Life & Chemistry

Insect Gut Can Detect Unhealthy Meals, Study Shows

Study authors Dalial Freitak, David Heckel and Heiko Vogel from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany along with Christopher Wheat…

Life & Chemistry

Beetle’s Adaptation: Thriving in Total Darkness

In a report published in the online open access journal Frontiers in Zoology, scientists reveal that this beetle has lost photoreceptors that are sensitive to…

Environmental Conservation

Life’s six-legged survivors – evolutionary study shows beetles are in it for the long run

There are approximately 350,000 species of beetles on Earth, and probably millions more yet to be discovered, accounting for about 25% of all known life forms…

Physics & Astronomy

MIT, others ask 'What would E.T. see?'

As astronomers become more adept at searching for, and finding, planets orbiting other stars, it's natural to wonder if anybody is looking back. Now, a team of…

Technology Offerings

New Process Creates Biofuel Pellets Without Drying Costs

New extrusion based process for the production of biofuel pellets, no more expensive preliminary drying of material is needed. Freshly harvested biomass with a…

Physics & Astronomy

Earliest Stage of Planet Formation Dated by Researchers

UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Frederic Moynier, Qing-zhu Yin, assistant professor of geology, and graduate student Benjamin Jacobsen established the dates…

Physics & Astronomy

Hybrid Semiconductors Achieve Zero Thermal Expansion for Electronics

Recently published research by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Argonne National Laboratory, and…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Uncover Protein That Regulates Bone Growth

A research team led by Dr. Pierre Moffatt of the Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal and McGill University’s Department of Human Genetics has uncovered…

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