News tagged with phosphate salts

Plant nutrients from wastewater

Nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium -- there are valuable nutrients contained in wastewater. Unfortunately, these essential nutrients are lost in conventional wastewater treatment plants. This is the reason why researchers ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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A crowning success for crayfish

Nature sometimes copies its own particularly successful developments. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and the Ben-Gurion University at Beer-Sheva in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solar thermal process produces cement with no carbon dioxide emissions

(Phys.org) -- While the largest contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is the power industry, the second largest is the more often overlooked cement industry, which accounts for 5-6% of all ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report

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

Scientist suggests life began in freshwater pond, not the ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most everyone alive today, it's almost a fundamental fact. Life began in the ocean and evolved into all of the different organisms that exist today. The idea that this could be wrong causes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 41 | with audio podcast report

Looks like we’re still looking for earthly life forms on other planets

In late 2010, NASA set the Internet buzzing when it called a press conference to discuss an astrobiological finding that would impact the search for extraterrestrial life. Many speculated that some primitive ...

Biology / Other

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

A salt-free primordial soup?

Most scientists who study the origin of life assume that it occurred in the ocean. But a minority view is that ions in seawater may interfere with prebiotic chemistry, making a freshwater environment more ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Student-built electric car sets land speed record at Salt Flats

(PhysOrg.com) -- An electric car designed and built by BYU engineering students set a world land speed record for its weight class, averaging 155.8 mph over its two required qualifying runs, one of which was ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Scientists demonstrate novel ionic liquid batteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the NRL Materials Science and Technology Division are providing solid evidence that there is a new route towards developing novel, lightweight energy storage devices. By moving ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Phosphorus: too much or too little?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fertilizer is rarely an inspiration for an art show, but this week at Arizona State University (ASU), sustainability, fertilizer and phosphorus scarcity will provide fuel for creative vision.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New processed cheese with 60% less salt could improve diets

Food scientists at University College Dublin have created a processed cheese product with 60% less sodium than full salt versions, and practically no difference in taste and structure.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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