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A recent study, led by Professor JaePhil Cho in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST has unveiled a new anode material, designed to help speed up fast charging in new electric cars with longer range. The key is to make many channels through which graphite can pass lithium ions quickly, and thinly coat

It is the first time the technique has proved successful in the cat family   AUSTRALIAN scientists have produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of an adult snow leopard for the first time, marking a breakthrough in the battle to save the endangered species. The cells, known as induced pluripotent stem cells, are ideal

Now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found a way to transform the carbon dioxide trapped in the atmosphere into useful industrial products. Excess carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere created by the widespread burning of fossil fuels is the major driving force of global climate change, and researchers the world over are looking for new

The modules are designed to fit snugly in a 8-foot-by-40-foot shipping container, and can make it anywhere internationally for $5,000. Just because a house is pre-fabricated doesn’t mean it’s easy to move.But Connect:Homes’ innovation is to make them fit in shipping containers, so high-end green design can end up anywhere on the planet. Pre-fab homes

Perka Launches A Nifty Loyalty Platform For Small Businesses Perka, a startup coming out of stealth and launching into the public today, wants to offer merchants a new spin on loyalty rewards programs in an effort to become the “antidote” to the 300-plus daily deal sites out there cannibalizing each other’s revenues and user bases.

New chemistry could overcome key drawbacks of lithium-air batteries. Lithium-air batteries are considered highly promising technologies for electric cars and portable electronic devices because of their potential for delivering a high energy output in proportion to their weight. But such batteries have some pretty serious drawbacks: They waste much of the injected energy as heat

A study published in the journal Oryx finds off-the-shelf drones can be used to guard crops and keep elephants safe along the borders of Tanzanian parks. A new study finds that low-cost drones have a significant impact in protecting elephants by preventing human-elephant conflict in farmland near Tarangire and Serengeti National Parks in Tanzania. The

Bioengineers and biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method to significantly extend the life of gene circuits used to instruct microbes to do things such as produce and deliver drugs, break down chemicals and serve as environmental sensors. Most of the circuits that synthetic biologists insert into microbes break or

Opening a door to a potential method to control obesity A compound found in red wine, grapes and other fruits, and similar in structure to resveratrol, is able to block cellular processes that allow fat cells to develop, opening a door to a potential method to control obesity, according to a Purdue University study. Kee-Hong

Giving us yet another reason to get behind electric, the Japan Electric Vehicle Club recently exceeded its own Guinness record for longest distance driven without recharging, achieving a staggering 1,003.184 km (or about 623 miles). The club’s Mira EV, a modified Daihatsu Mira, was powered by a Sanyo battery system containing more than 8,320 lithium-ion