A Portland cement concrete research engineer at Iowa State University says poor decision making, not poor technology, doomed the Deepwater Horizon. Bob Steffes, ISU’s Institute for Transportation, bases his conclusions…
Read MoreRecently we gave our readers the opportunity to suggest an item for viewing under a scanning electron microscope. The ideas have been great, but we want more! Check out this…
Read MoreThe undisputed hybrid king, Toyota, says it is teaming up with Tesla Motors in the development of electric cars that run solely on lithium-ion batteries. As part of the deal,…
Read MoreToday’s videos are variations on the same theme – LED light bulbs that operate without an electrical connection. The video above features the N100 bulb from a new Hong Kong…
Read MoreA group of researchers representing several institutions report in Science they have gained new abilities to “print” graphene oxide-based nano-scale replacements for IC wiring and some semiconductor devices using a…
Read MoreDuPont opened a North American photovoltaic applications lab at its Chestnut Run facility in Wilmington, Del., to support materials development for the fast-growing photovoltaic energy market, according to a recent…
Read MoreAccording to California solar power advocacy group Sunpluggers.com, wind turbines may be installed among the photovoltaic panels of a planned PV power plant in Palm Springs, Calif. This would be…
Read MoreThe New York Times story starts the timeline in the 1980s: “They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan…
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: “An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries…
Read MoreWhile working on her master’s degree, University of Rhode Island grad student Michelle Pelletier says she has come up with an effective and inexpensive method of creating self-healing concrete using…
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