News tagged with anaerobic technology

Singapore honours Dutch scientist

Singapore said Monday it will award nearly 200,000 US dollars to a Dutch scientist who pioneered an environmentally friendly, low-cost way of treating waste water and refused to patent the process.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Powered by poo: Students use dog waste to light park

Every day, about 200 dogs and their owners visit the Cosmo dog park in Gilbert, Ariz. When they go home, they leave behind about eight cubic yards of dog waste, plastic bottles, bags and other trash.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists discover multiple gene switches in Salmonella, offer new ways to curb infection

Scientists have discovered multiple gene switches in Salmonella that offer new ways to curb human infection. The discovery of the mechanisms of gene regulation could lead to the development of antibiotics to reduce the le ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher's waste-to-energy technology moves from the lab to the marketplace

(Phys.org) -- Technology invented by a University of California, Davis, researcher that converts solid waste into renewable energy is debuting today as the first commercially available, high-solid anaerobic ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Use less water, producing energy and fertilizer at the same time

Clean drinking water and basic sanitation are human rights. Yet almost 780 million of the world's population still have no access to drinking water and some 2.6 billion people live without sanitary facilities. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vitamins doing gymnastics: Scientists capture first full image of vitamin B12 in action

You see it listed on the side of your cereal box and your multivitamin bottle. It's vitamin B12, part of a nutritious diet like all those other vitamins and minerals.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New study queries interactions of metal-reducing bacteria with plutonium oxide

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent work by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shed new light on the perplexing environmental chemistry of plutonium. They demonstrated that under anaerobic, or oxygen-free, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover a compound that controls Listeria

In a year when cantaloupe tainted with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes killed 30 people, the discovery of a compound that controls this deadly bacteria -- and possibly others -- is great news.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Navy researchers investigate small-scale autonomous planetary explorers

Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers at the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineers develop more effective MRI contrast agent for cancer detection

Many imaging technologies and their contrast agents — chemicals used during scans to help detect tumors and other problems — involve exposure to radiation or heavy metals, which present potential health risks to ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Analysis shows now-banned technical swimsuits led to top swim performances in 2009

(PhysOrg.com) -- Superstar swimmers and certain comic book superheroes have something unusual in common--when they wear special suits, they gain phenomenal abilities. A first-of-its-kind study from Northwestern Medicine highlights ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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