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Alternative Fuels: Easier Than You Think
All this talk about alternatives. Does it just seem too ethereal? Perhaps something that’s nice, but not for you? Certainly, no one needs to add anything else to his to-do list.
Yet using alternative fuels really is easier than you might...
Recycling: Saving Our World
More and more people are starting to become aware of the severe impact that our world is going through and the limitations of our resources. Over the past 30 years or so, recycling has become more than just a nice way to reuse resources, it’s...
New Olympic Basketball Arena is a Collapsible Flatpack
The new venues for London’s 2012 Olympics are rolling out faster than you can say “no tickets” which is another story, but first the basketball stadium…
Designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and KSS design, the arena...
Tech companies to begin cleaning water at Japan nuclear plants
A group of nuclear tech companies are poised to begin cleaning the contaminated water in the turbine buildings at the Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan that suffered damage in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami. Japanese conglomerates...
How Enzymes Therapy Cures Allergies
Many people in the USA are allergic. Out of these, quite a few suffer from food allergies and breathing allergies. Men and women that put up with food allergies battle to cure their ailment as they are not aware which food item has truly triggered...
China downplays risk to children from lead poisoning: report (Reuters)
Chinese children suffering lead poisoning from polluting smelters and factories have been denied testing, effective treatment and even basic information by officials who downplayed health threats, according to a human rights advocacy...
Sustainable Palm Oil in the Amazon Rainforest
Could palm oil grown sustainably help the Amazon rainforest?
Since 2001, palm oil production has grown tremendously. An increase in the cost of soybean oil and a move away from trans-fats in foods, including Girl Scout cookies, helped fuel...
Dating an Ancient Global Warming
Using sophisticated methods of dating rocks, a team including University of Southampton researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have pinned down the timing of the start of an episode of an ancient global warming known...
Arabian ‘unicorn’ thrives again in wild
The Arabian Oryx, whose distinctive horns are widely believed to have given rise to the unicorn legend, is back from the brink of extinction in the deserts of the Arabian peninsula.
About 1,000 of the wild Arabian or White Oryx now exist owing...
Flexible Solar Cells Reach Record Efficiency of 18.7%
The Previous Record was 17.6%
Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have made flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) with a light-conversion efficiency of 18.7 percent,...
