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These Marine Solar Cells by Phil Pauley are Revolutionary Innovation An entirely new marine design by Industrial Designer Phil Pauley, the Marine Solar Cells (MSC) are the world’s answer to large-scale renewable energy sources. Using a combination of solar panels and wave power generation, this off-shore photovoltaic power generator can produce clean, sustainable power for

Detecting diseases such as cancer in their earliest stages can make a huge difference in patient treatment, but it is often difficult to do. Now scientists report in the journal ACS Central Science a new, simple method that could make early disease diagnosis much easier. In addition, their approach only requires a minute sample of

Refrigerated trucks equipped with hydrogen fuel cells to make deliveries in three markets Grocery merchants in Texas, California and New York will soon have ice cream, frozen foods and fresh produce delivered by tractor trailers whose refrigeration units are powered by fuel cells, a clean technology that makes energy silently and with dramatically reduced emissions.

New research from a team of Florida State University scientists and their collaborators is helping to explain the link between a changing global climate and a dramatic decline in bumble bee populations worldwide. In a study published Friday, Sept. 29, in the journal Ecology Letters, researchers examining three subalpine bumble bee species in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains

Three Simon Fraser University scientists are among six researchers who’ve made a discovery that could help revolutionize antibiotic treatment of deadly bacteria. Lisa Craig, Christopher Ford and Subramaniapillai Kolappan, SFU researchers in molecular biology and biochemistry, have explained how Vibrio cholerae became a deadly pathogen thousands of years ago. V. cholerae causes the diarrheal disease cholera, which is endemic

Could we soon be driving a 3D printed car to our 3D printed house and eating 3D printed food for dinner? Jim Kor, who heads Kor Ecologic, has created a 3D printed car called the Urbee 2. We saw the first design, Urbee, back in 2010. This updated three-wheel, two-seater vehicle is 10 feet long and takes

Internal storage compartments release droplets of “healing” liquid to repair damaged materials. The Science Inspired by healing wounds in skin, a new approach protects and heals surfaces using a fluid secretion process. In response to damage, dispersed liquid-storage droplets are controllably secreted. The stored liquid replenishes the surface and completes the repair of the polymer

Image via Wikipedia Good Advice . . . not just if you are American By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was the amazing, young, Internet-enabled, grass-roots movement he mobilized to get elected. The most striking feature of Obama’s presidency a year later is how thoroughly that

Hydrazine hydrate is a liquid fuel It has been a tough couple of years for the Japanese motor car industry, not least for Daihatsu. On top of natural and man-made disasters, Japan’s oldest car manufacturer, now part-owned by Toyota, has struggled to sell its super-compact “Kei” class vehicles outside of the home market. The company