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May 18 | News
While many are focusing on atmospheric solutions to reduce greenhouse gases, some researchers are setting their sights on the ground—deep underground. Li Li, an assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering at Penn State University, is investigating geologic carbon sequestration as a way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
May 17 | News
Technology is helping
communication companies merge telephone, television, and Internet
services, but
a push to deregulate may leave some customers on the wrong side of the
digital
divide during this convergence, according to a Penn State University
telecommunications
researcher.
May 1 | News
A process that spins starch into
fine strands could take the sting out of removing bandages, as well as
produce
less expensive and more environmentally friendly toilet paper, napkins,
and
other products, according to Penn
State University
food scientists.
Apr 18 | News
Autonomous,
self-replicating robots—exobots—are the way to explore the universe,
find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space
debris in the process, according to a Penn State engineer, who notes
that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence—SETI—is in its 50th
year.
Apr 4 | News
Some people quit smoking on the
first try while others have to try to quit repeatedly. Using such mobile
technology as handheld computers and smartphones, a team of researchers
from Penn State University and the University of Pittsburgh
is trying to find out why.
Mar 27 | News
From
an extensive study that grew out of an initial research cruise to the
Gulf of Mexico in October 2010, scientists have published the first
evidence of the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea
corals. The team used underwater vehicles and 2D gas chromatography to
determine precisely the source of the petroleum hydrocarbons they found.
Mar 26 | News
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Pennsylvania State
University
have announced breakthroughs in the development of tunneling field
effect
transistors (TFETs), a semiconductor technology that takes advantage of
the
quirky behavior of electrons at the quantum level.
Mar 2 | News
Production of energy from the difference between salt water and fresh water is most convenient near the oceans, but now, using an ammonium bicarbonate salt solution, Penn State University researchers can combine bacterial degradation of waste water with energy extracted from the salt-water fresh-water gradient to produce power anywhere.
Feb 24 | News
While
many scientists have studied carbon nanomaterials in a single dimension
for carbon nanotubes and two dimensions for graphene, a collaboration
of three research institutions is the first to attempt to create and use
3D carbon nanotube solid networks. The effort is fundamentally
difficult because researchers must build atomic-scale joints between
individual nanoscale elements.
Jan 20 | News
The
bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at
least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to
researchers. The bacteria—<em>Chryseobacterium</em> and
<em>Paenisporosarcina</em>—showed signs of respiration in
ice made in the laboratory simulates the temperatures and nutrient
content found at the bottom of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers.
