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Scientists discover, patent, sell waste-water tech

Sam Houston State University has applied for six federal patents, three of which have already been awarded, to protect the technology and engineering associated with a "revolutionary" packaged wastewater treatment system ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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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

NASA's astrobiology research sparks 'GreenTech' revolution

NASA’s astrobiologists study microbial life to understand how it transformed a rocky Earth into the thriving, diverse, life-sustaining planet we inhabit today. These studies of photosynthetic ‘green’ ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Polymer characterization 'tweezers' turn Nobel theory into benchtop tool

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new and highly efficient way to characterize the structure of polymers at the nanoscale – effectively designing a routine analytical tool that could be used by industries ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Low tech' light in neutron beam illuminates photosynthesis in bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Bio-SANS instrument at the High Flux Isotope Reactor are getting a leg up in their research from an ingenious "low tech" lighting tool that can be fixed to their samples ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Research makes desalination easier to swallow

"We live in one of the driest places on earth, and so the opportunity to create new sources of water for the Australian community is incredibly important," said Professor Saravanamuth Vigneswaran, Director ...

Technology / Other

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New partnership looks to industrialize spider silk production

(PhysOrg.com) -- For thousands of years, human beings have looked with envy upon the silk webs spun by spiders; not only are they stronger than steel but they are tougher too (a vest made of spider web material ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Iowa State hybrid lab combines technologies to make biorenewable fuels and products

Laura Jarboe pointed to a collection of test tubes in her Iowa State University laboratory.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists study ocean impacts of radioactive contamination from Fukushima nuclear plant

Scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) are joining colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, several other U.S. academic institutions and laboratories ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neutrons provide first sub-nanoscale snapshots of Huntington's disease protein

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural formation of the disease type ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biofuels without competing claims in Mozambique

It might not seem the most obvious option to generate energy using biomass in Mozambique, where agriculture barely manages to feed the population. But Wageningen UR researchers concluded the contrary: Small bioreactors can ...

Biology / Other

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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