The bottle brush, with its long stalk and dense spray of plastic bristles, is the unsung hero of kitchens everywhere, fitting through the narrow necks of water bottles and vases and into the hard-to-reach interiors of mugs ...
Biochemistry
Nov 4, 2015
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Deep in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula, residents of the remote Mexican village of La Mancalona are producing clean drinking water using the power of the sun.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 8, 2015
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The 3-D printing revolution has changed the way we think about plastics. Everything from children's toys to office supplies to high-value laboratory equipment can be printed. The potential savings of producing goods at the ...
Engineering
Mar 17, 2015
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In the central Northern Pacific is an area that may be the size of Texas called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Made up of tons of floating plastic debris, the patch is killing seabirds and poisoning marine life in the North ...
Materials Science
Dec 18, 2014
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Specialized windshield glass, everyday plastic water bottles, and countless other products are based on ethylene, a simple two-carbon molecule, which requires an energy-intense separation process to pluck the desired chemical ...
Materials Science
Aug 18, 2014
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There's a new wave of sound on the horizon carrying with it a broad scope of tantalizing potential applications, including advanced ultrasonic imaging and therapy, acoustic cloaking, and levitation and particle manipulation. ...
General Physics
Aug 4, 2014
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Researchers are programming robots to communicate with people using human-like body language and cues, an important step toward bringing robots into homes.
Robotics
Apr 11, 2014
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Water pours into a cup at about the same rate regardless of whether the water bottle is made of glass or plastic.
Nanophysics
Sep 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Germany has identified an endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) found in samples taken from commercial bottled water. In their paper published in PLoS ONE, the team describes the methods ...
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world's cigarette problem—one butt at a time.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 27, 2013
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