Microscopic particles of carbon known as buckyballs may be able to keep the nation's water pipes clear in the same way clot-busting drugs prevent arteries from clogging up.

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Mar 05, 2009 3.6 / 5 (7) 7

(Phys.org) —Pink is the color of princess fairy-tale gowns, magic slippers, upscale cupcake icing, and everything else favorable to girls who just want to be girls. "Ladyphones" appear to be concepts for ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

May 20, 2013 2.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Using an enhanced form of "chemical microscopy" developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), researchers there have shown that they can peer into the structure of blended ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Nov 28, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI engineers are working on robotic technology to rehabilitate the nation's aging water infrastructure.

Technology - Engineering

Feb 08, 2010 4.7 / 5 (9) 0 |

A day at the beach in Wisconsin's North Woods didn't used to go like this. Candy Dailey spent a Fourth of July holiday splashing with grandkids on the sandy shore of Lake Metonga when she felt a nasty sting on her foot.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 09, 2009 5 / 5 (4) 1

It took some of America's best engineers, thousands of laborers and two years of around-the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 02, 2009 2.7 / 5 (3) 1

Villagers installing a water pipe in southwestern Mexico stumbled onto an ancient granite statue depicting a player from a pre-Hispanic ball game, the national anthropology institute said Monday.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 21, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

The University of Nevada's world-renowned earthquake laboratory has launched a nearly $4 million research project aimed at making nonstructural parts of buildings more earthquake proof.

Technology - Engineering

Apr 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

Think of your car as a smartphone on four wheels. Or your smartphone as a wallet. Or your home as a connected network center where thermostats, video cameras, lights and televisions all "talk" to each other. That "talking" ...

Technology - Telecom

Apr 17, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 1

Leaky pipes are a common problem for the water industry: according to UK regulator, Ofwat, between 20 and 40 per cent of the UK's total water supply can be lost through damaged pipes. Developing more accurate ways of finding ...

Technology - Engineering

Aug 06, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Within two decades, 60 percent of the world's population will live in cities, and coping with the resulting urban drinking water and sanitation issues will be one of the greatest challenges of this century. A U.S. Forest ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 14, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Using a thermostatic mixer valve to control the maximum temperature of children's bath water can significantly reduce the temperature of hot bath water and should reduce the risk of scalding, according to researchers at The ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Jan 05, 2011 2 / 5 (1) 0

Most people know about the geothermal system in Boise's Downtown and Warm Springs area. It's one of the oldest in the country.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 02, 2010 5 / 5 (4) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Real-time monitoring of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) production is now possible. In an article in the journal Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, Professor Rolf Mülhaupt and his studen ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jan 06, 2010 3.5 / 5 (4) 2

Experts from Queen's University Belfast have developed new agents to fight MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The fluids are a class of ionic liquids that not only kill colonies ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 25, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0