News tagged with green
Pond alga could help scientists design effective method for cleaning up nuclear waste
Researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory have an enhanced understanding of a common freshwater alga and its remarkable ability to remove strontium from water. Insight into this mechanism ultimately ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Researchers link herpes to Alzheimer's disease
Laboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute (HEI) have developed a new technique to observe herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) infections growing inside cells. HSV1, the cause ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Green toad inhabited Iberian Peninsula one million years ago
Although the green toad (Bufo viridis) can today be found all over Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and even on the Balearic Islands, it became extinct in the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the Early Pleist ...
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Mar 31, 2011 |
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Creating green aviation technology
"Green" research has become a burgeoning field at NASA, and Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., is definitely on board. Scientists, engineers and researchers at Ames conduct a variety of green projects in relation ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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China, Germany move ahead on clean energy: study
Germany has outpaced the United States as the number two player in clean energy while China keeps racing ahead as the world's green investment leader, a study said Tuesday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Neutron analysis yields insight into bacteria for solar energy
Structural studies of some of nature's most efficient light-harvesting systems are lighting the way for new generations of biologically inspired solar cell devices.
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Energy Conference spotlights military's green energy
It’s not surprising that the U.S. Navy should be at the cutting edge of new energy alternatives, said Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, speaking at the annual MIT Energy Conference on March 5. Innovation ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Green LED is bright enough for large projector
Osram Opto Semiconductors has developed an extremely bright, green light-emitting diode (LED) that makes LED projectors in office environments possible. Projectors in conference rooms have to be very bright ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Green sludge can protect groundwater from radioactive contamination
Radioactive waste decaying down at the dump needs millions of years to stabilize. The element Neptunium, a waste product from uranium reactors, could pose an especially serious health risk should it ever seep ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Clinical trial for dry mouth
A clinical trial using an all-natural lozenge to treat dry mouth, a condition that impacts 40 percent of American adults, is under way at Georgia Health Sciences University College of Dental Medicine.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 16, 2011 |
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YouTube buys Green Parrot Pictures
Google-owned YouTube said Tuesday that it has bought an Irish digital video company whose technology can help improve the quality of amateur footage submitted to the video-sharing site.
Mar 15, 2011 |
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Meet the family with both a Chevy Volt and a Nissan Leaf
The Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf are slowly putting cars on the road, mostly in California, as the companies ramp up production and start delivering to their patient customers. GM handed out 281 Volts in February (928 ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Renewables could bring job boon to Poland: Greenpeace
An ambitious switch from fossil fuels to green energy could generate up to 350,000 new jobs by 2020 in the Poland, the European Union's most coal-dependent member, Greenpeace said Friday in Warsaw.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Synthetic biology: German researchers develop novel kind of fluorescent protein
Since the 1990s a green fluorescent protein known as GFP has been used in research labs worldwide. Protein designers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen have now taken it a step further: They have managed to incorporate a ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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$100 a barrel oil: Bad for Wall Street, good for green cars
Is there a huge difference between $100-a-barrel oil and $98 oil? Obviously not much, but it's a psychological barrier. So when West Texas crude oil prices dipped below the magic $100 mark on a recent morning, Wall Street ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 08, 2011 |
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