06/05/2016

Looking to light highways with light-emitting cement

In order to light roads, highways or bicycle lanes without electricity, Ph.D. José Carlos Rubio, from Michoacan's University of San Nicolas Hidalgo, UMSNH in Spanish, created a light-emitting cement that has a lifespan of ...

Leonardo da Vinci—the first systematic study of friction

Friction is immensely important to us – without it, for example, we could not walk or even crawl – yet it is only 50 years since a special word –  'tribology' – was first coined to describe its study.  Professor ...

Swift parrot critically endangered

The Australian Government has listed the iconic Tasmanian swift parrot as critically endangered, lifting its status from endangered, following research by The Australian National University (ANU).

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