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A handheld detector that reduces both the cost and time taken to remediate sites contaminated by petroleum products has been launched to market in the United States. The device, RemScan, developed by CSIRO and industry partner Ziltek, uses an infrared signal to directly measure petroleum hydrocarbons in the soil, giving a result in around 20

Image via Wikipedia In this second article of a four-part series commemorating the World Wide Web’s 20th birthday, Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti explains how online games and other Web-enabled social machines build machine intelligence–and help us, too One of the Web’s huge promises is that it will help people work together. Although the Web has

Anxiety over the Zika virus is growing as the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro approach. To better diagnose and track the disease, scientists are now reporting in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry a new $2 test that in the lab can accurately detect low levels of the virus in saliva. The World Health Organization (WHO)

Knowledge is power – economic power – and there’s a scramble for that power taking place around the globe. In the United States, Europe and in rising powers such as China, there is a growth-hungry drive to invest in hi-tech research and innovation. They are looking for the ingredients that, like Google, will turn a

Development is significant step toward skin grafts that can be integrated into patient’s skin Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. The advancement, published online today in Tissue Engineering Part A, is a significant step toward creating grafts that are more like the skin our bodies

A new technology developed by Penn State researchers, called Cold Sintering Process (CSP), has opened a window on the ability to combine incompatible materials, such as ceramics and plastics, into new, useful compound materials, and to lower the energy cost of many types of manufacturing. Ceramics is the oldest known man-made material, dating back tens

Knowledge of soil properties such as organic carbon content, clay content and pH is vital for agriculture and climate change analysis in Africa. ISRIC has launched a new type of freely accessible soil property maps for Africa. The maps contain predictions of seven soil properties at six standard depths at 1 km resolution. The soil property

Potential uses of new technology range from medical devices and wearables to smart packaging A team of researchers from the Plasma Physics Research Centre, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, have discovered a way of making paper supercapacitors for electricity storage, according to a new study published in the journal Heliyon . At one sheet thick, these new

Monash University researchers, along with industry partner Haemokinesis, have developed the world’s first blood incubator using laser technology. This technology can slash blood incubation time to just 40 seconds, compared to the current industry gold standard of five minutes. The study shows that laser incubation can improve pre-transfusion testing for millions of patients undergoing blood