Blogs

Lunar tires, space MRSA, and resonating microfluidics

Mar 5

I typically attend the annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy each year in pursuit of specific coverage. This year, I sought out candidates for coverage in a vacuum technology article, and pulled together some instruments for a spectroscopy guide. But as busy as that kept me, it wasn’t all mass spectrometers and vacuum pumps on the show floor.

The Next Best Thing?

Feb 16

There is no doubt that developing and launching a new product is a challenge. Over the past 47 years, the R&D 100 awards have recognized the 100 most technologically significant new consumer, industrial, medical, and technical products, including multiple technologies (besides accelerator pedals) from Toyota.

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Liquid glass: Revolutionary or gimmick?	Paul Livingstone	Feb 17
Remember Big Dog? Say hello to Military Dog	Paul Livingstone	Feb 2
CRM in R&D industry.	Zeki Gulser	Jan 31
iPad game-changing? Really?	Paul Livingstone	Jan 29

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Evidence: Snowball Earth was iced to the equator
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Transforming polyethylene into heat-conducting material
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Researchers create new antimatter
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Evidence: Snowball Earth was iced to the equator

Once a seafarers' scourge, the gribble could be biofuel hero

Transforming polyethylene into heat-conducting material

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Alternative energy crops in space

Mar 9

Creating synthetic sea shells from chalk and polystyrene cups

Mar 9

New energy source comes from the common pea

Mar 5

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Evidence: Snowball Earth was iced to the equator

11 hours ago

Ancient tropical rocks that now reside in the remote northern reaches of Canada tell the tale: about 716.5 million years ago the Earth lay bound in a layer of ice that limited life to eukaryotes. Strangely, this glaciation—history’s most extensive at 5 million years, say researchers at NSF and Harvard—occurred at about the same time that animals appear in the fossil record.

Alternative energy crops in space

Mar 9

What if space held the key to producing alternative energy crops on Earth? That's what researchers are hoping to find in a new experiment on the International Space Station. The experiment, National Lab Pathfinder-Cells 3, is aimed at learning whether microgravity can help jatropha curcas plant cells grow faster to produce biofuel, or renewable fuel derived from biological matter.