The maintenance of existing steel infrastructures such as bridges is vitally important to ensure the safety of our society. Ongoing monitoring, inspection, and evaluation are key processes in these maintenance programs. However, ...
Engineering
Nov 25, 2014
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Japanese researchers have developed a new, high-yield reaction process to obtain aromatic urethane from carbon dioxide (CO2), amine, and tin alkoxide. Aromatic urethane compounds are chemical substances currently used as ...
Materials Science
Nov 25, 2014
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The Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL is undertaking a major project to protect 39 of its rarest and most significant skeletons, some which have been on display in the Museum for 180 years. To help achieve this, the Museum is ...
Archaeology
Nov 25, 2014
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A molecular electronic switch is a junction created from individual molecules that can alternate between two or more stable states, making the switch act as a conductor or an insulator. These switches show promise for future ...
Materials Science
Nov 25, 2014
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Scientists have long been trying to emulate the way in which plants harvest energy from the sun through photosynthesis. Plants are able to absorb photons from even weak sunlight using light antennae made from chlorophyll ...
Materials Science
Nov 25, 2014
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The UK Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has drawn attention to a webcam-monitoring Russian website, which offers thousands of private video streams, raising fears of unwitting and continuous surveillance. Graham ...
Security
Nov 25, 2014
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As the holiday shopping season gets underway, the importance of avoiding hackers, phishing scams and phony websites while buying online becomes increasingly important.
Security
Nov 25, 2014
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Over the past several years, research on bacteria in the digestive tract (gut microbiome) has confirmed the major role they play in our health. An international consortium, in which INRA participates, has developed the most ...
Biotechnology
Nov 25, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of New Mexico recently discovered an olfactory immune system in fish previously thought to be associated with terrestrial vertebrates only. The results could provide a new tool ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 25, 2014
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Sean Bemis put his hands together side by side to demonstrate two plates of the earth's crust with a smooth boundary running between them. But that boundary is not always smooth and those plates do not always sit together ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2014
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