Big box stores could ditch the grid, use natural gas fuel cells instead
Large facilities like big box stores or hospitals could keep the lights on by using a fuel cell that runs off the natural gas that already flows in pipelines below most city streets.
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New paint makes tough self-cleaning surfaces
A new paint that makes robust self-cleaning surfaces has been developed by a team led by UCL researchers. The coating can be applied to clothes, paper, glass and steel and when combined with adhesiv ... more
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Orbit Over Obsolescence: How Satellite Constellations Are Replacing Cell Towers One Layer at a Time
What 3I/ATLAS tells us about other solar systems
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Solar cells get growth boost
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University's (OIST) Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit have found that growing a type of film used to manufacture sola ... more
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Miscanthus-based ethanol boasts higher profits
A recent study simulated a side-by-side comparison of the yields and costs of producing ethanol using miscanthus, switchgrass, and corn stover. The fast-growing energy grass miscanthus was the clear ... more
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X-ray imaging of a single virus in 3-D
Since the determination of the molecular structure of myoglobin in 1957, X-ray crystallography has been the defining tool of structural biology, allowing researchers to determine the structure (and ... more
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Flexible sensors turn skin into a touch-sensitive interaction space
Someone wearing a smartwatch can look at a calendar or receive e-mails without having to reach further than their wrist. However, the interaction area offered by the watch face is both fixed and sma ... more
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Metabolic path to improved biofuel production
Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a partnership that includes the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have fou ... more
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U.S. defense in free fall
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact
Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement
