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The future electric-car market will feature a mixture of both all-electric cars and plug-in hybrids At its unveiling at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, Volvo said its V60 plug-in hybrid was “virtually production-ready.” This was an accurate statement as it turns out, with the Swedish automaker announcing that from next year it

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have isolated a human monoclonal antibody that in a mouse model “markedly reduced” infection by the Zika virus. The antibody, called ZIKV-117, also protected the fetus in pregnant mice infected with the virus, the researchers reported today in the journal

A tree isn’t just an aesthetic improvement to a city.   The services it provides–in terms of cleaning the air, managing water, and more–are incredibly valuable. An innovative new solution makes the process easier, and might result in more foliage-friendly urban environments. City trees have a hard life. Polluted, pruned, and squeezed into tiny spaces,

Offering the prospect of engineering plants that can grow all year round and in locations where that’s not currently possible. Circadian rhythms are a roughly 24-hour cycle governing biochemical, physiological, or behavioral processes that have been widely observed not only in humans, but other animals, fungi, cyanobacteria and plants. In plants, circadian rhythms help synchronize

Researchers have been able to tune ‘coherence’ in organic nanostructures due to the surprise discovery of wavelike electrons in organic materials, revealing the key to generating “long-lived charges” in organic solar cells – material that could revolutionise solar energy. By using an ultrafast camera, scientists say they have observed the very first instants following the

A new diagnostic tool has been developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin that can easily, quickly and cheaply identify whether a mosquito belongs to the species that carries dangerous diseases such as Zika virus, dengue, chikungunya or yellow fever.  It can also determine whether the bug has come into contact with

Uses up to 30 percent less fuel and emits 25 percent less carbon dioxide   Over the past 20 years, the global energy crisis and environmental problems have prompted the auto industry to develop cleaner, more ecologically friendly and energy-saving products. As a result good progress has been made in technical innovations of the diesel

The increasing ubiquity of wearables and the Internet of Things has rightly prompted concerns over the privacy of personal data and establishing boundaries for being tracked. Hitachi, the Japanese electronics company, is targeting corporations with a new device that is designed to optimize for efficiency in the workplace through data gathering. The Hitachi Business Microscope looks like

Image via Wikipedia Recently, we’ve noted some similarities between Amanda Palmer and the band OK Go, in that both had been signed to major record label deals, both had built up an amazing (and amazingly loyal) group of fans through various means (different for each) using methods totally outside of their major label marketing effort

Potentially offers a fresh approach to harness solar energy to power light-driven actuators and mechanical devices A team of international scientists led by Professor Jagadese J Vittal of the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Faculty of Science has successfully unraveled the chemical reaction responsible for propelling microscopic crystals to leap