Virtual engineering allowed research and development to proceed simultaneously. Together with the specialty chemicals company LANXESS, Fraunhofer researchers have engineered and built a syst... Read more
From bricks to jackets, it seems just about anything can be made using plastic nowadays. The latest items to get a plastic fantastic makeover are antibodies – proteins produced by the... Read more
Researchers from a national security laboratory in the U.S. have announced a technology which can detect the presence of thousands of microorganisms in just 24 hours. Hundreds of thousands o... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable desalination units that could be powered by solar cells or... Read more