Today's waste, tomorrow's fuel
...many kilogrammes of platinum is being sprayed onto streets and roads every year. Dr Prichard said: Platinum is a vital component not only of catalytic converters but also of fuel cells. Fuel cells are an important new source of clean energy. Platinum is a precious metal and resources are scarce and exp......elation to the botelln culture (gathering in the streets to drink with friends), Jos Rico states that some of these social drinkers could have low beta-endorphin levels and, therefore, a higher predisposition to become solitary drinkers and to develop alcohol abuse. ......reen Junta is unlikely to arrive with tanks on the streets and the overnight capturing of control," he explains, "Rather, it creeps upon us through multiple small steps - each one justified by 'necessity'." "Unless we are able to construct rapid and effective decision-making structures then there is a real...Engineers develop process to recycle unused paint by blending it into common plastics
...ills from cans that garbage trucks crush, defacing streets and contaminating refuse-handling equipment, said Tom Nosker, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers and principal investigator at a university center for advanced polymer materials. Theyve responded by accepting unwanted paint dur...Firewood unintentionally transports emerald ash borer
... "In some Michigan communities where ash lined the streets on both sides, now only stumps remain and the residents have no shade," said Appleby. "We should learn never to plant all of one tree species in a given area but plant a diversity of tree species." Appleby said that some communities are no longer p...Human behavior changes the number of strains of infectious diseases
...nces between village and city life: one with quiet streets and few new faces, and the other with thousands of hurrying people and crowded public transport. That's two very different environments for a pathogen. There are always going to be plenty of factors that determine which strains emerge, but human mixi...Researchers offer clues to how leaf patterns are formed
...lieved that auxin would behave like man--build the streets on which man himself would travel," said Scarpella. "However, the theory argued that in each individual vein auxin could only run one way at any given time, making them sort of alternate one-way streets." By labeling the protein that transports the h...A year on from the Asian tsunami, satellites are aiding regional rebuilding
...ceh, rubble and mud has been cleared from the city streets and rebuilding proceeds. Many Respond products have been produced of this area, but one in particular a detailed street map of the post-tsunami settlement, based on high-resolution satellite data is proving especially useful in guiding reconstructi...Researcher: Toxic flood lifts lid on common urban pollution problem
...p in urban runoff, or rainwater that washes across streets and other hard surfaces in cities. Environmental engineering professor John Sansalone's perspective is especially relevant because it is based on field research in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, where he was a professor at Louisiana State University be...Wine, music and schizophrenia genes
...ng illness, with afflicted individuals filling our streets and homeless shelters. It is important to us that the Staglins, through NARSAD, are stepping up to fill some of the funding void." Researchers generally accept that susceptibility to schizophrenia results from the interaction of a large number of gen...Monsanto fund awards $3.7 million to Washington University for school science van program
...ear. The mobile classroom will be out on St. Louis streets in the fall, as it begins making its first school visits. To create the program concept, Victoria May, director of science outreach, convened a group of local science educators, including Sally Saldaa, art teacher at Maplewood-Richmond Heights Elem...Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says
...ora cecropia), which he collected by driving along streets in Urbana, Ill., and retrieving cocoons from trees. With its colorful 5- to 6-inch wingspan, the nocturnal cecropia moth is the largest North American moth. In "Insights From Insects," Waldbauer describes 20 different types of pests. He includes how ......s now being rolled out to stem gun violence on the streets of Chicago and Los Angeles. The engineer is Theodore Berger, director of the USC Center for Neural Engineering whose life's work has been deciphering the way in which nerve cells code messages to each other. Now, a camera-and-microphone surveillan...