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Hydroelectric power specialist Bourne Energy has developed a human-portable hydroelectric generator which can create clean, quiet power from any stream deeper than four feet. The “Backpack Power Plant”, which joins the company’s Riverstar, Oceanstar and Tidalstar designs, is aimed at bringing cheap, practical energy technology to remote areas. Bourne Energy has developed two versions of

Technique combines fish farming, soil-less plants   Imagine growing vegetables and fish in the same space. That’s the idea behind aquaponics,  a marriage of fish farming and soil-less plant cultivation in a single, sustainable closed system. Supporters believe aquaponics can play a key role in alleviating food insecurity, addressing the problems of climate change, ground

Our ambition is to allow re-use of the paper In offices the world over, heaps of printouts and photocopies from laser printers get used once before being discarded, or tossed on shelves to collect dust indefinitely. But what if they could be wiped clean and used again? An engineering team at the University of Cambridge

We’ve covered a few different research efforts looking to develop “invisibility cloak” technology on Gizmag, including 3D metamaterials that negatively refract visible and near-infrared light and U-shaped “nano-rings” that manipulate light. The latest news sure to get Harry Potter fans excited comes out of Michigan Technical University where Elena Semouchkina, an associate professor of electrical

Researchers at Lancaster University are racing against time to find smart solutions to the rapidly advancing era of ‘dark silicon’.  We will soon live in an era where perhaps more than 80 per cent of computer processors’ transistors must be powered off  and ‘remain dark’ at any time to prevent the chip from overheating. Hardware

The new Trilogy 40 Q-Mode™ could save about 60% of annual energy use The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with ClimateMaster, has developed a highly efficient ground-source heat pump appliance for heating and cooling interior spaces. For more than 10,000 years, various cultures have turned to the stable temperature of the ground as a resource of

Interorbital offers CubeSat berths for $10,000 a pop. MANY a youngster, Babbage included, has dreamed of going into space. But becoming an astronaut is a hard slog. Sandy Antunes suggests a less daunting proxy. An astrophysicist and programmer with decades of NASA experience, Dr Antunes is a proponent of picosatellites, and has just published the second of four

Researchers at Queen’s have developed a highly innovative new enzyme biomarker test that has the potential to indicate diseases and bacterial contamination saving time, money and possibly lives. The test, developed by scientists at the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s, can detect enzyme markers of disease known as proteases in humans, animals

Researchers have engineered gold-based molecules that target cancer cells and leave healthy cells unharmed, in a critical step towards precision cancer drugs with fewer toxic side effects. Pre-clinical studies have shown the molecules were up to 24 times more effective at killing cancer cells than the widely used anti-cancer drug cisplatin and were also better