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35% lighter than a standard metal unit, and is approximately 30% cheaper to produce A consortium of German research groups has created a new sandwich-type material that they claim offers strength similar to that of steel or aluminum, yet is significantly lighter and less expensive. It consists of a honeycomb-structured paper core, with glass fiber-reinforced

The unit itself is also 100 percent recyclable and has an uptime of virtually 100 percent Despite being the most widely used form of renewable energy worldwide, hydroelectricity is generally reserved for large-scale commercial installations built around massive dams. Japanese company Ibasei has shrunk things down and removed the need to build a dam with

Sir Ken Robinson, International Education Leader, shares his thoughts on transforming public education. via Ted.com

A combination of nanotechnology and a virus found on tobacco could save huge amounts of energy in industrial and electronic processes Scientists have found a way to boil water faster, although they admit the discovery is unlikely to revolutionise tea-making. The technology works by coating a heating element with a virus found on tobacco plants.

Study points to possible treatments and confirms distinction between memory loss due to aging and that of Alzheimer’s A team of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, has found that deficiency of a protein called RbAp48 in the hippocampus is a significant contributor to age-related memory loss

A myth for our scientific era Pinning down exactly what Ridley Scott’s larger-than-life Prometheus means may be impossible. But it’s safe to say that the movie – the 3-D quasi-prequel to Scott’s seminal technoscience-horror fable, Alien – is self-consciously a myth for our scientific era. Prometheus opens over the shoulder of an alabaster figure on

A new biofuel production process created by Michigan State University researchers produces 20 times more energy than existing methods. The results, published in the current issue of Environmental Science and Technology, showcase a novel way to use microbes to produce biofuel and hydrogen, all while consuming agricultural wastes. Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist, has developed bioelectrochemical