Ozone may provide environmentally safe protection for grains
... They used five-gallon plastic pails and 50-gallon steel drums, storage bins filled with grain, and buried mesh bags all filled with grain and a known number of grain-eating bugs to test ozone's killing efficacy. The team's previous studies on ozone flow and effectiveness in eliminating insects were done e...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory February 2003
...he hollow, spaghetti-like tubes promise to replace steel with structural materials that are 100 times stronger and weigh six times less. Carbon nanotubes conduct electricity like perfect metals or can act as tiny semiconductor devices. They already have found their way into today's new field-emission flat-...NEI criticizes fear-mongering by authors of used fuel paper
...e vaults filled with water (used fuel pools) or in steel or steel-reinforced concrete containers with steel inner canisters (dry storage). Both structures are situated within the protected zones at plant site...15-foot hypodermic needles provide evidence for vast oceanic crustal biosphere
... were growing in the artificial environment of the steel drill pipe in the bore hole. To try to avoid this...ant hypodermic needles. The 15-foot-long stainless steel probes were driven into the summit of a 3.5-million-year-old seamount. Two of the hollow probes imme...B-vitamins prove effective in relieving chronic pain
...CD was produced by surgically implanting stainless steel rods unilaterally into the intervertebral foramen ...tebral foramina of L4 and L5 exposed. A stainless steel L-shaped rod, 4 mm in length and 0.6 mm in diameter, was implanted into each foramen, one at L4 and ...Double research boost for tissue engineering community
...sed in implants e.g. polymers, ceramics, stainless steel and titanium. Characterisation and Degradation of Tissue Scaffolds, is concerned with identifying suitable procedures for characterising polymer based tissue scaffolds. Concerns over viral or prion contamination, has made it more difficult to obtai...ORNL wins four R&D 100 awards, pushing total to 116
...ructure method dramatically changes CF8C-Plus from steel that cannot be used above 600-650 degrees Celsius to steel that can be used up to 850 degrees Celsius and resists failure during creep, mechanical fatigue and ...Carnegie Mellon develops new process for growing bone
...generating bone. Bone, often called the structural steel and reinforced concrete of the human body, supports the body the way a steel framework supports a skyscraper, and it protects its vital organs the way a cast-concrete roof prot...World's most alkaline life forms found near Chicago
...dwater in the Lake Calumet region was created when steel slag was dumped and used to fill in wetlands and lakes. Water and air reacts with the slag to create lime (calcium hydroxide), driving up the pH. There is an estimated 21 trillion cubic feet of contaminated industrial fill dumped in southeast Illinoi...Academy Harbor Consortium releases letter on mercury to President Bush
... mercury emissions from coal combustion, iron and steel melting industries, and other sources, including s...ion of mercury emissions from the state's iron and steel melters by 75 percent by 2009, and a further reduction of mercury emissions from New Jersey's munici...Findings could aid efforts to harness nature for making drugs
...drugs, which often require hazardous chemicals and steel "reactors" operated at high pressures and temperatures. The enzymes from plants and other organisms typically function in water near room temperature under ordinary pressure. The Purdue researchers demonstrated that altering the nutrients and careful...1,136 scientists call for protection of deep-sea corals
...y bottom trawling. Trawls are huge nets armed with steel weights or heavy rollers. Deep-sea fishing vessels drag them across the seafloor to catch species such as shrimp, cod, orange roughy, armorhead, grenadier and Chilean seabass. Trawls smash corals and sponges and rip them from the seafloor. "It's i...Improved medical treatment of serious heart problems focus of UH-led group
...cks caused by CAD each year. Stents are stainless steel or nytinol mesh-like tubes used to keep clogged coronary arteries open. A non-surgical treatment of CAD involves a revascularization or angioplasty procedure during which a stent is deployed in the artery by either expansion by a balloon or by a sel...University of Delaware lays keel for new research vessel
... and specializes in the construction and repair of steel and aluminum ships ranging from fishing and oil re...of Delaware's vessel will be constructed from five steel modules forming the hull, topped by a lighter, aluminum superstructure that includes the pilothouse....DFG establishes 14 new research units
...ced concrete when the so-called reinforcement the steel rebar in the concrete has become corroded is still a distant objective. The new Research Unit entitled "Modelling the Progress of Damage in the Corrosion of Steel in Concrete and Rating of Reinforced Concrete Components for Their Durability" located...NCAR aircraft, ground instruments to track carbon dioxide uptake
... on Niwot Ridge near Nederland. Perched atop three steel towers provided by NCAR, each between 100 and 200 feet tall, carbon dioxide sensors and sonic anemometers will measure changes in carbon levels and winds high above the tree tops. "Today we usually look for carbon in all the wrong places," says Schim...Scientists report how protons induce water cages
...n the chain, like the executive desk toy with five steel balls. The proton that comes out at the end is not the same one that went in. One example where this mechanism is being currently entertained is in photosynthesis, where the conversion of light energy to useful energy by charge separation may be med...Earth, sky tapped in unique global climate change study
...ite plastic stretches over 14-foot tall galvanized steel arches like giant, protective umbrellas to shelter 80 plots of juniper, post oak and little bluestem grass. But while the awnings prohibit nature from having her way with the young plants, the researchers may jack up the temperatures and send a rains...Promising research: From employment issues to virology
...s composition and manufacturing method, resem-bles steel rather than normal concrete in terms of load-bearing capacity. The researchers plan to use the programme to lay the technically scientific foundations for using ultra-high power concrete. They believe that this material can be used not only to constr...New world record magnet for chemical and biomedical research
...c loading, the coils are configured with stainless steel overbanding and are vacuum impregnated with cryogenically tough epoxy for structural support. The high current density coils produce a uniform field of 21.1 Tesla to one part in one billion in a volume 64 times larger than that of typical NMR systems...