Banana peel, coffee grounds and other food waste will be transformed into green fuel for Oslo’s city buses starting next year. The Norwegian capital’s new biogas plant will also supply nutrient-rich ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 19, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

So much for the idea that space capsules are cramped and can only carry a limited crew. SpaceX revealed a prototype for their new crew cabin design, as they conducted a joint daylong review with NASA of the ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 19, 2012 4.7 / 5 (6) 5

The human eye is crucial to astronomy. Without the ability to see, the luminous universe of stars, planets and galaxies would be closed to us, unknown forever. Nevertheless, astronomers cannot shake their ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 19, 2012 4.6 / 5 (40) 71 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg have shown that nanocellulose stimulates the formation of neural networks. This is the first step toward creating a three-dimensional ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 19, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits, originally developed nearly 30 years ago to lower the cost of geothermal drilling. Sandia and ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 19, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 6

Store brands now account for more than 22 per cent of supermarket sales in Australia yet consumers are still wary about their quality, new research has found.

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Mar 19, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 2

A team of EU-funded Spanish and Polish researchers have revealed the structure of a protein complex that is essential for messenger RNA (mRNA) biogenesis and export. Writing in the European Molecular Biology ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 19, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting. The launch will be rescheduled to allow additional ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

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Researchers in Wales and the United States have collaborated to complete the first high-resolution, comprehensive genetic map of a promising energy crop called miscanthus (Miscanthus sinensis). The results – published in the ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 19, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0 |

Researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (Japan) have developed a unique way to create full-color holograms with the aid of surface plasmons.

Physics - General Physics

Mar 19, 2012 4.7 / 5 (37) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- More schools should consider adopting bilingual education for part of their teaching, according to a language education expert from the University of Exeter, UK.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Mar 19, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Here’s another reason to cheer for the little guy. A new study co-authored by Matthew Bracken, assistant professor of biology in Northeastern’s College of Science, has found that ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 19, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A growing body of evidence underscores the importance of human gut bacteria in modulating human health, metabolism, and disease. Yet bacteria are only part of the story. Viruses that infect ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 19, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wolfgang Fink of the University of Arizona department of electrical and computer engineering has developed an autonomous robotic lake lander that could be used to explore this planet and others.

Technology - Engineering

Mar 19, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as the lead characters in the popular Broadway musical "Wicked" sing about defying gravity, the low-Earth orbiting twin spacecraft of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 19, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0