Illinois lands research center for advanced water purification
...alifornia at Berkeley. At Illinois, scientists and engineers from the departments of chemical engineering; chemistry; civil and environmental engineering; geology; materials science and engineering; and mechanical and industrial engineering will be involved with the center, as well as researchers from the Wast...Research reveals a more complete picture of breast tissue
HANOVER, N.H. A team of Dartmouth engineers and doctors are trying to find more comfortable and comprehensive ways to examine breast tissue to better detect and diagnose breast cancer. The Dartmouth group is simultaneously developing and testing four different breast imaging techniques. The m...Wisconsin team engineers hydrogen from biomass
...step and high-temperature processes. Now, chemical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new process that produces hydrogen fuel from plants. This source of hydrogen is non-toxic, non-flammable and can be safely transported in the form of sugars. Writing this week (Aug. 29) in the...Hope for nano-scale delivery of medicine using a light beam to move liquid through tiny tubes
...n mechanical parts. The ASU team of scientists and engineers reports in the American Chemical Society journal L...reativity of the next generation of scientists and engineers who will routinely design new products using nanotechnology," Garcia says....Science writers to explore new horizons of science and technology
...e. Numerous Washington University scientists and engineers from the Hilltop and Medical School campuses will be joining their distinguished counterparts from around the country to make newsworthy presentations....Scientists prove how geckos stick, unlock secrets to making artificial gecko glue
...n fourth century B.C. Now a team of biologists and engineers has cracked the molecular secrets of the gecko's unsurpassed sticking power--opening the door for engineers to fabricate prototypes of synthetic gecko adhesive. "Two millennia later, we have solved the puzzl...NIGMS and NSF grants join math and biology
...athematicians, computer scientists, physicists and engineers to apply their quantitative expertise to biology are described at http://www.nigms.nih.gov/funding/complex_systems.html . NIGMS also recently established a Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology to be the focal point for such interdisc...Wilmington researcher receives award for combating terrorism with chemistry
...eeting in Boston, along with chemists and chemical engineers from DSM N.V., DuPont and Solutia Inc. Retired U.S...monials to the valuable role chemists and chemical engineers play in improving our lives. It is with pride that the Society recognizes them as Heroes of Chemistr...Dutch researchers receive award for combating terrorism with chemistry
...eeting in Boston, along with chemists and chemical engineers from DuPont and Solutia Inc. Retired U.S. Air Forc...monials to the valuable role chemists and chemical engineers play in improving our lives. It is with pride that the Society recognizes them as Heroes of Chemistr...Wilmington researchers receive award for using chemistry to protect food supply
...eeting in Boston, along with chemists and chemical engineers from DSM N.V., DuPont and Solutia Inc. Retired U.S...monials to the valuable role chemists and chemical engineers play in improving our lives. It is with pride that the Society recognizes them as Heroes of Chemistr...World's largest scientific society to honor DuPont scientists for 2 breakthrough discoveries
...ons of "brilliant industrial chemists and chemical engineers to their companies, to the global marketplace and to the chemical enterprise." "These innovators have significantly contributed to the protection and security of our world with their technologies that detect, prevent, alleviate or remediate threats t...Tropical forests under surveillance
...ened a diverse group of rainforest biologists with engineers at the forefront of sensor and communications technologies to brainstorm new ways to apply technology in tropical research and conservation efforts. According to the symposium organizer, Julio Escobar, President of Centauri Technologies Corporation, ...Carbon nanotubes found to fluoresce
... they emit light in a way that could be useful for engineers in the fiber optics industry....MIT technique could improve cartilage repair
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT engineers are excited about a new technique for repairing cartilage that could have significant advantages over the procedure now commonly used. This could affect people disabled by osteoarthritis, which slowly destroys the tissue that cushions joints. Hundred......le impact on nearby Lake Cayuga. Developed by the engineers in the department of Utilities and Energy Management, the team combined public feedback and education with the sustainable use of a local natural resource. Since the project's beginning, energy usage for air conditioning at Cornell has been reduced ...Researcher is using nature's command and control network to develop ways to engineer organisms
...kes an antibiotic when the need is sensed, or that engineers an artificial pancreas that knows when to turn on and off, since you can't just make insulin all the time. This is a dream for the future." Kennelly has been working in this area for 23 years, starting as a graduate student. His interest in science b...Dearborn, Mich., researchers receive award for improving automobile plastics
Chemical engineers Ellen Lee, Ph.D., and Deborah Mielewski, Ph.D., of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Mich., will be honored June 28 by the world's largest scientific society for developing a new process for making stronger, lighter plastics for automobiles. They will ...Membrane filters offer options for cleaner water
...ng bacteria and other organic materials, will help engineers devise more efficient filters, says Shankar Chella... carcinogenic compounds. The long-term goal is for engineers to use our research to design better large-scale filtration systems," Chellam says. Chellam and hi...Sea Grant news: Shipworms, ozone, hurricanes
...L SIGN IN FIGHT AGAINST SHIPWORMS Maine Sea Grant engineers are at work on a new composite technology that could protect wooden piers and marine structures from shipworm attack. Shipworms have caused millions of dollars in damage to piers in ports and harbors worldwide. Harbormasters and wharf owners have w...Spinal cord injury and Alzheimers risk among topics at American Chemical Society meeting
...hemistry students, professional chemists, chemical engineers and former classroom science teachers, will share chemical demonstrations and interactive experiments with participating children and their families. (Saturday, April 6, noon - 2 p.m., Orlando Science Center, 777 East Princeton Street. For immedia...