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Zinc Control Could be Path to Breast Cancer Treatment
The body’s control mechanisms for delivering zinc to cells could be key to improving treatment for some types of aggressive breast cancer. New research by Cardiff University and King’s College London has identified the switch which releases...
Aluminum Alloy Overcomes Obstacles on the Path to Making Hydrogen a Practical Fuel Source
Hydrogen offers great promise as a renewable energy source. It’s staggeringly plentiful (the most abundant element in the Universe) and environmentally friendly (used in a fuel cell, it gives off only water). Unfortunately, storing and transporting...
Irish Mining Firm, Kenmare Resources, Announces Significant Increase in the Production of Heavy Mineral Concentrate in Mozambique
The Irish mining firm, Kenmare Resources, has announced a significant increase in the production of a heavy mineral concentrate (HMC), from which titanium and zirconium minerals are extracted, during the third quarter of 2011 from its dredge mine in Moma...
Critical Minerals Ignite Geopolitical Storm
The clean energy economy of the future hinges on a lot of things, chief among them the availability of the scores of rare earth elements and other elements used to make everything from photovoltaic panels and cellphone displays to the permanent magnets...
Study Claims Big Tobacco Knew Radioactive Particles in Cigarettes Posed Cancer Risk But Kept Quiet
Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed “deep and intimate” knowledge of these particles’ cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately kept their findings...
China, Japan Minuet Around the Issue of Rare Earths
It’s official – China’s de facto monopoly on current rare earths production is a threat to the global economy. As least, that was the gist of hearings on 21 September by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee...
China Using Rare Earths As a Weapon
China is currently responsible for more than 90 percent of the worlds rare-earth production, and some analysts allege that China is using its de facto monopoly to lure high tech companies to China.
Fundamental Discovery May Make It Easier for Engineers to Build Electronic Circuits Out of Graphene
Rice University materials scientists have made a fundamental discovery that could make it easier for engineers to build electronic circuits out of the much-touted nanomaterial graphene.
