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Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol

Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This has be ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Greenpeace says KFC boxes destroy Indonesia forests

Greenpeace on Wednesday accused global fastfood chain KFC of using paper packaging made using wood from Indonesian rainforests which it said was endangering the habitat of the Sumatran tiger.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A single cell endoscope: Researchers use nanophotonics for optical look inside living cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Faster-than-light' particles spark science drama

Oh Albert. Did you get it wrong? In 2011, physics was shaken by an experiment which said the Universe's speed limit, enshrined by Einstein in his 1905 theory of special relativity, could be broken.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 82

Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields results

A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 123

Closing the phosphorus-efficiency gap

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ways to reduce the costs of phosphorus fertiliser use on farms – critical for sustaining high agricultural production in many Australian farming systems – have been identified in ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Closing the phosphorous-efficiency gap

Ways to reduce the costs of phosphorus fertiliser use on farms – critical for sustaining high agricultural production in many Australian farming systems – have been identified in a new suite of journal ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

World's first tunable broadband RF device emerges

A team of researchers from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia's iTEAM in Spain has created the first, tunable broadband radio frequency (RF) photonic phase shifter. Because it is based on a single semiconductor element, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Tiny wires a step towards photonic chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian researchers have engineered one of the world’s smallest ever nanowires for the next generation of telecommunication technology, bringing them one step closer to the holy grail of optics – ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new SPIDER for the web

(PhysOrg.com) -- A revolutionary new chip that uses little energy and operates at ultrafast speeds for telecommunications and computing is set to replace the power-hungry, expensive and bulky equipment that ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

How to tell real whiskey from fake -- faster

Methods for distinguishing between authentic and counterfeit Scotch whisky brands have been devised by scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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