UMass Amherst research has potential application to remediate other difficult-to-degrade pollutants A team of environmental scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and China... Read more
Inspired by a naturally occurring material found in marine mussels, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new flame retardant to replace commercial additives that a... Read more
Flame retardants are often extremely harmful to health. Despite this, they are found in many types of synthetic materials which would otherwise ignite quickly. Empa researchers have now succ... Read more
“Wind could easily sustain 25 percent of the grid’s capacity with no strain.” Wind is the now the cheapest form of electricity generation, with an average price of 89c a kilowatt hour compar... Read more