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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.
Penn Chemists Make First Molecular Binding Measurement of Radon
Even in trace quantities, the radioactive gas radon is very dangerous; it is second only to cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer deaths in the United States. The expense and precautions necessary to study it safely have limited research into its...
Friction-stir Extrusion Seen As Key to New Materials Process At a Fraction of the Energy
Researchers Zhili Feng, Alan Frederic and Stan David in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Materials S&T Division have made significant progress toward a new metal processing technique, called friction-stir extrusion, that could represent a major...Portable Technology Might Provide Drinking Water, Power to Villages
Researchers have developed an aluminum alloy that could be used in a new type of mobile technology to convert non-potable water into drinking water while also extracting hydrogen to generate electricity. Such a technology might be used to provide power...
Long-lived Reactive Oxygen Intermediates Could Explain Why More And More People are Suffering From Allergies
New findings from researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland help to explain how toxic and allergy-causing substances in our air are formed. The scientists have for the first time detected long...
Atomic Weights of Ten Chemical Elements About to Change
For the first time in history, a change will be made to the atomic weights of some elements listed on the Table of Standard Atomic Weights of the chemical elements found in the inside covers of chemistry textbooks worldwide.
South African Firm Wins Titanium, Zirconium Mining Contract in Mozambique
South Africa’s Engineering & Projects Company Limited (E+PC), a subsidiary of the Aveng group, has won a USD200 million contract from the Irish group Kenmare Resources to expand the Moma heavy sands project in the northern Mozambican province of...Phosphorus Identified As the Missing Link in Evolution of Animals
A University of Alberta geomicrobiologist and his PhD student are part of a research team that has identified phosphorus as the mystery ingredient that pushed oxygen levels in the oceans high enough to establish the first animals on Earth 750 million...
