The Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub, has created a new chemical process that makes use of the widely available rare-earth metal cerium to improve the manufacture of nylon.
Materials Science
Mar 19, 2015
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Could water have carved channels on Mars as recently as 500,000 years ago? If that's the case, it would boost the case for relatively recent life on the red planet.
Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2015
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A new report, prepared with researchers in our Department of Economics for leading social housing provider Aster Group, urges businesses to consider the true financial costs of climate change in order to better plan for extreme ...
Economics & Business
Mar 19, 2015
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A paper published yesterday in Nature's Scientific Reports by a team led by physicist Igor Aronson of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory modeled the motion of cells moving together. This may help ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 19, 2015
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have become the first to develop a model that literally looks beyond the surface of corrosion to better predict its spread.
Materials Science
Mar 19, 2015
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Nanoparticle electrodes in lithium-ion batteries have both near-surface and interior contributions to their redox capacity, each with distinct rate capabilities. Using combined electron microscopy, synchrotron X-ray methods ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 19, 2015
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British people have been urged to stop flushing wet wipes down the toilet after a 50 percent surge in the number found in a beach survey.
Environment
Mar 19, 2015
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The patterns of plant species diversity along Swedish boreal streams are closely linked to flow of surface and sub-surface water. The linkages between vegetation and hydrology are tight, and according to Lenka Kuglerová ...
Environment
Mar 19, 2015
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Graphene is a remarkably strong material given it's only a single carbon-atom thick. But finding ways to do something with it – that's also affordable too – have always been a challenge.
Nanomaterials
Mar 19, 2015
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Since their first official detection in the United States in 2001, brown marmorated stink bugs have been eating our crops and invading our homes and businesses. Most stink bugs, however, seek shelter outdoors in order to ...
Ecology
Mar 19, 2015
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