Tomorrow's green nanofactories
...gen-based transportation system based on fuel-cell powered cars and trucks, according to Rejeski. ...$125 million bioenergy initiative powered by Midwest ag industry, MSU research
...e of Michiganand a dramatic step toward an economy powered by strategic partnerships among states, research universities and industry, said MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon. MSUs Office of Biobased Technologies and our preeminent scientists are dedicated to addressing problems and opportunities of today, but,...Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence
...envision that in the future we will drive vehicles powered by carbohydrate, or energy stored in solid carbohydrate form, with hydrogen production from carbohydrate and water, and electricity production via hydrogen-fuel cells. "What is more important, the energy conversion efficiency from the sugar-hydrog...Nanocomposite labeled cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed using lasers
...inately, but it is really a blunt instrument. High powered lasers do so much damage that the tissue becomes opaque to further light. Yet, lower-powered lasers do not deliver enough energy to kill cells. By labeling cells with CNDs, light absorption can be selectively and locally enhanced wherever composite n...New report explores nanotechnology's future
...ydrogen-based transportation system with fuel-cell powered cars and trucks, helping to render fossil fuels obsolete as an energy source. Relevant to nearly every industry, nanotechnology is considered a "platform technology," the report says, because "it readily merges and converges with other technologies...Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds
...United States) fueled by gasoline, versus A fleet powered by E85, a popular blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. Deaths and hospitalizations The results of the computer simulations were striking. ''We found that E85 vehicles reduce atmospheric levels of two carcinogens, benzene and b...Short-term studies suggest that whole grain oats may reduce risk factors for coronary heart disease
... in cereal products. "Well-designed, adequately powered studies are now needed to evaluate the effects of long-term consumption of oats," says Dr Sarah Kelly of the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough. The review concluded that there is enough evidence from wh...Removing a hydrogen fuel-cell roadblock
...ajor roadblock from the path of hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicles. Hydrogen fuel-cell technology sounds almost too good to be true. You combine cheap and plentiful hydrogen and oxygen gas, the fuel cell generates electricity and the by-product is simply water. But its a little more involved. The key is...Aerosol pollution slows down winds and reduces rainfall
...hicles with cleaner ones, such as renewable-energy powered battery-electric and hydrogen-fueled vehicles, and substituting contaminating power plants with networked wind farms. These actions would reduce particle emissions practically to zero, he says. The second-best option would be adding particle traps to...Researchers to present advances in energy, health, technology at chemical engineering conference
... must be answered before fuel cell vehicles can be powered by hydrogen-as part of the so-called ''hydrogen economy''-is how vehicles will store that hydrogen. Hydrogen compressed in tanks could explode. Metal hydrides, or solid chemical formulations, are either too heavy, too slow to charge or require too mu...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... report on a noninvasive imaging technique that is powered by mitochondria. The authors compared the well studied intrinsic optical imaging method to that of endogenous flavoprotein fluorescence, the latter of which relies on activity-induced changes in the fluorescence of mitochondrial flavoproteins. The au...Harvesting machine driving mesquite-to-ethanol potential
...felled trees with the HydroAxe, Ansley said. It is powered by theHydroAxe with a hydraulic system. With another rotor and more hammers, thefelled wood is further broken up and then sucked up a chute and into ahydraulically hinged bin. From there, the wood can be dumped into trucks and hauled to an ethano...Of I robots go solar; new system could drastically reduce herbicide use
...nd continuously collect data, but the battery that powered the system required charging about every two hours. "So I thought, what if we had a system that could collect data, but could also convert the heat of the sun into an energy source?" said Tian. "We could replace the grad student worker with this ro...Gateway to Nanoscience: The convergence of disciplines
...he quality of life? Will future energy problems be powered on nano-scale? How will converging nanosciences transform information society? And finally how can we better structure the research community to answer these questions? High-level experts are invited to present recent scientific achievements in nanos...$20 million to expand seafloor observatory
...n fall 2007, Alcatel will lay an 800-km network of powered fibre optic cable across the seafloor in the deep ocean off the B.C. coast. A series of laboratories, or "nodes," along the cable will allow land-based scientists to remotely control and monitor instruments, video cameras and underwater vehicles as t...Walgreens and Joslin Diabetes Center form broad alliance to improve diabetes outcomes
...). "This alliance represents a new model of care, powered by Joslin's deep research and extensive clinical knowledge, and distributed 'from bench to bedside' to the community through Walgreens pharmacies," said C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., President of Joslin and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvar......utless worm that commutes through marine sediments powered by a community of symbiotic microbial specialists ...tion," Rubin said. "In certain places the worm is powered by specific bacteria that can exploit the chemical energy abundant at a specific location, while in ...Device that aids people with muscular dystrophy wins inaugural WPI Entrepreneurship Award
...bramovich '05 developed a prototype of a wearable, powered orthosis. Scarsella and Toddes have continued to refine the device as WPI graduate students. Young people with muscular dystrophy retain dexterity in their hands, but, due to the wasting in their shoulders, upper arms, and trunk, are unable move thei...Protowings may have helped bird ancestors cover rough terrain
...l birds to be terrestrial dinosaurs that developed powered flight from the ground up. An article by Kenneth P. Dial and two co-authors in the May 2006 issue of BioScience summarizes experimental evidence indicating that ancestral protobirds incapable of flight could have used their protowings to improve hind...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2006
...aldistribution through an air-conditioning system powered by generators and microturbines. Maldistribution reduces heat exchanger capacity that reduces an air-conditioning system's energy efficiency and contributes to higher costs for a unit. Working with United Technologies Research Center, Modine Manufact...