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Feb 2 | News
IBM has been selected for a global research project to develop the world's first integrated environmental monitoring system aimed at helping oil and gas companies minimize the environmental impact of their operations.
Jan 30 | News
Researchers
at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory
have successfully shown that they can replace useful little particles of
monosodium titanate (MST) with even tinier nano-sized particles, making
them even more useful for a variety of applications.
Jan 10 | News
University of California, Davis, researchers have proposed a radical new way of thinking about the chemical reactions between water and metal oxides. The new paradigm could lead to a better understanding of corrosion and how toxic minerals leach from rocks and soil. It could also help in development of green technology.
Jan 4 | News
Researchers from North Carolina State University
and West Virginia
University have developed
a new technology that can reduce air pollutant emissions from some
chicken and
swine barns, and also reduce their energy use by recovering and possibly
generating heat.
12/1/2011 | News
A Michigan State University researcher is using a $1.92 million Department of Defense grant to develop a portable wastewater treatment system that could improve the military's efficiency. The solar-bio-nano project also will generate energy and produce drinking water, providing a potential blueprint for future municipal/agricultural wasterwater treatment systems.
8/15/2011 | RDBlog
The editors of R&D Magazine have opened the nominations for the 2012 R&D 100 Awards competition, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the awards. If your organization introduced a new product this year, or is planning to, you can begin the entry process now.
8/1/2011 | News
University
of Cincinnati researchers have developed the first lab-on-a-chip sensor
to provide fast feedback regarding levels of the heavy metal manganese
in humans. The low-cost, disposable invention is mercury-free and can
deliver feedback within about 10 minutes.
7/12/2011 | News
While
Berkeley Lab's third-generation synchrotron is better known as one of the
world's brightest sources of ultraviolet and X-ray light, it's roof has
been, until now, a prime attractor for the sun’s energy. The 70-year-old
dome is being clad in a new cool roof, which will reflect sunlight back
into the atmosphere. The project is part of a mandate by Stephen Chu
for all Dept. of Energy facilities.
7/12/2011 | News
Power
usage effectiveness (PUE) is a key metric for determining how green a
data center is and it shows how effectively a data center uses power.
Measured as a ratio of the total amount of power used in the data center
divided by the amount of power to the computer equipment, the best
score a data center can get 1.0. The National Renewable Energy Lab
recently dropped its PUE from 3.3 to 1.15 in an effort to be a leader in
this area, and to save hundreds of thousands of dollars.
7/7/2011 | News
In
Europe, where there are an estimated 300,000 contaminated sites that
require testing and treating before further development, a new portable
tester that uses live bioluminescent bacteria to assess toxicity has
proven popular. With tests taking only 12 to 15 minutes per sample, the
device could be used to find out, in less than a day, whether a field
contains carcinogenic toxins, and map precisely where the hot spots of
the pollution are.
