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Research is enabling this shift from artificial colors, sweeteners and preservatives to naturally derived ones, Extracts from algae, rosemary and monk fruit could soon replace synthetic ingredients and food additives such as Blue No. 1, BHT and aspartame that label-conscious grocery shoppers are increasingly shunning. Research is enabling this shift from artificial colors, sweeteners and

In a technology first, a team of NASA engineers has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray navigation in space — a capability that could revolutionize NASA’s ability in the future to pilot robotic spacecraft to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond. The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer

                        Sensitive, uncompromised results in a compact unit   After decades of transforming the food processing industry with 3M(TM) Petrifilm(TM) Plates, 3M is once again revolutionizing the industry — this time in the area of pathogen detection. Today, 3M Food Safety introduces the 3M(TM)

One way to stop the ever-growing pile of plastic water bottles in landfills? Make a bottle people can eat. Inspired by techniques from molecular gastronomy, three London-based industrial design students created Ooho, a blob-like water container that they say is easy and cheap to make, strong, hygienic, biodegradable, and edible. The container holds water in

Thirteen-year-old Sydney Kendall had one request for the Washington University in St. Louis students building her a robotic prosthetic arm: Make it pink. Kendall Gretsch, Henry Lather and Kranti Peddada, seniors studying biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, accomplished that and more. Using a 3-D printer, they created a robotic prosthetic

At about four light-years from the sun, Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the solar system. While that may seem relatively close, it would still take humanity thousands of years to reach, based on current propulsion technology. In fact, it took Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977, 37 years to reach the

Panasonic Corporation today announced it has developed the “Power Supply Container”, a stand-alone photovoltaic power package, for areas without electricity. The Power Supply Container contains solar modules*1 and lead-acid batteries*2, as well as the newly developed Power Supply Control Unit that acts as the energy management system. In addition, the Project to Improve Elementary Education and

Our ambition is to allow re-use of the paper In offices the world over, heaps of printouts and photocopies from laser printers get used once before being discarded, or tossed on shelves to collect dust indefinitely. But what if they could be wiped clean and used again? An engineering team at the University of Cambridge