environmental monitoring
Nanogenerators grow strong enough to power small conventional electronics
Blinking numbers on a liquid-crystal display (LCD) often indicate that a device's clock needs resetting. But in the laboratory of Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia…
Colorful brains, cooling lasers, disease-detecting lights and more
Scientists and engineers from around the world will gather on the shores of Lake Ontario in Rochester, N.Y. next week to discuss some of the latest…
50% by 2050 – How the power of the sea could help solve our electricity needs
Marine renewable energies include harnessing the power of offshore wind, waves, tides, and ocean currents as well as exploiting salinity and temperature…
Unique evaluation shows the way for SLU
This is the first result of the major evaluation of Quality and Impact that SLU had performed in 2008-2009.The aim of “Evaluation of Quality and Impact at SLU”…
With Three New Reference Materials, NIST Gets the Dirt on Soil
Intended for use as controls in testing laboratories, the new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs)—gathered from the San Joaquin Valley in California and from…
The minerals on Mars influence the measuring of its temperature
The study is published this week in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring and will be used to interpret the data from the soil temperature sensor of NASA's…