News tagged with alphabet energy

Start-up company aims to harness the full potential of producing electricity from waste heat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Matt Scullin co-founded Alphabet Energy just one year ago, but already the CEO has ambitions of turning the San Francisco-based start-up company into the "Intel of waste heat." By harnessing ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report




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First complete full genetic map of miscanthus - promising energy crop

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

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plug 'leaks,' create 'cradle to career' education system to meet world challenges: Top US educator

Plugging major "leaks" of students exiting formal education prematurely is a top priority in all countries -- developed and developing alike -- to successfully address a suite of problems confronting humanity in decades to ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cloud computing and Argonne program help decode German E. coli strain

When a nasty strain of E. coli flooded hospitals in Germany this summer, it struck its victims with life-threatening complications far more often than most strains—and the search for explanation began.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stanford computer scientists find Internet security flaw

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Security Laboratory create a computer program to defeat audio captchas on website account registration forms, revealing a design flaw that leaves them vulnerable ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Building blocks of life created in 'Impossible' place

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (24) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Light games with DNA

The diagnosis of hereditary diseases and the identification of genetic fingerprints hinge on high-sensitivity DNA imaging biotechnologies. These imaging tools detect specific genes in cells using fluorophores—fluorescent ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Insect research gives humans six legs up

(PhysOrg.com) -- You could say that Bert Hölldobler's career began during a childhood walk in the Bavarian woods with his father. The elder Holldobler turned over a rock out in the forest, exposing a colony ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Teenagers cannot concentrate because their brains are undeveloped

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the UK has found that teenagers and young adults find it hard to concentrate because their brains are more similar to those of much younger children than those of mature adults, with more ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 20 | with audio podcast report

Mammoth Achievement: Researchers at the forefront of molecular biology

Forget Jurassic Park. By successfully sequencing the DNA of a long-extinct species, Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller have helped push back the boundaries of molecular biology.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

S.Korea announces multi-billion dollar plan for new city (Update)

South Korea Monday announced a 14.6 billion dollar blueprint to develop a new city as a science and education hub, scrapping controversial plans to relocate much of the government there.

Technology / Business

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0


List of search results for alphabet energy