Promoting Public health: Toward a vaccine for methamphetamine abuse
Today’s solution addresses the development of a potential vaccine to fight methamphetamine abuse. Methamphetamine abuse costs the United Sta...
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Taking inspiration from trees, scientists have developed a battery made from a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmenta...
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20 of 103 episodesProviding Safe Foods: Safety of nanoparticles in food crops is still unclear
Today’s solution sounds a warning bell about the much-anticipated new era of nanoagriculture — using nanotechnology to boost the productivit...
Developing New Materials: Using banana peels to purify water
A study in the American Chemical Society’s journal, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, reports that minced banana peel performs...
Our Sustainable Future: A “green grid” for delivering solar and wind-based electricity
Today’s solution addresses the development of a “green grid” to more efficiently deliver solar and wind-based electricity.
Promoting Public Health: Toward new medication for chronic brain diseases
A needle-in-the-haystack search through nearly 390,000 chemical compounds has led scientists to a substance that can sneak through the prote...
Developing New Sources of Energy: Self-powered nanogenerator uses body movements to generate electricity, transmit data wirelessly
Today’s solution is A first-of-its-kind nanogenerator that can produce electricity using energy from a gentle breeze, movements of a person...
Our Sustainable Future: “Green” cars made from pineapples and bananas
Today’s solution explains how manufacturers building hybrids that have excellent gas mileage, can create stronger, lighter, and more sustain...
Combating Disease: New rapid diagnostic test for MRSA Superbugs
Today’s solution is a new blood test that can quickly tell whether patients are infected with an antibiotic-resistant bacterium that’s becom...
Our Sustainable Future: A greener process for a key ingredient used to make paint, diapers, and other products
A study published in the American Chemical Society’s journal, ACS Catalysis, reports that scientists have developed a new catalyst that prov...
Our Sustainable Future: Biodegradable plastic from milk and clay
With continuing concern about plastic waste accumulating in municipal landfills, and reliance on imported oil to make plastics, scientists h...
Promoting Public Health: Black rice bran may fight inflammation
Scientists are reporting evidence that black rice — a little-known variety of the grain that is the staple food for one-third of the world p...
Supplying Safe Drinking Water: Electrified nano filter promises to cut costs for clean drinking water
Scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills up to 98 percent of...
Our Sustainable Future: Saving energy by reducing food waste
A new study published in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science and Technology journal provides a compelling new reason not t...
In the green of health: Just five minutes of green exercise optimal for good mental health
New research suggests that just five minutes of outdoor activities, such as exercising in a park, working in a backyard garden or walking on...
Future Cities: Nanotechnology promises more sustainable buildings, bridges, and other structures
Bricks, blocks, and steel I-beams — step aside. That’s because scientists are reporting that a new genre of construction materials, made fro...
Developing new sources of energy: Producing cost-effective biodiesel from sewage sludge
Existing technology can produce biodiesel fuel from municipal sewage sludge that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with co...
Our Sustainable Future: “Smart” roofs that can save energy
Scientists are reporting development of a “smart” roof coating, made from waste cooking oil from fast food restaurants, that can “read” a th...
Promoting Public Health: Dusting off a hidden challenge
Where does dust come from? Scientists in Arizona are reporting a surprising answer to that question, which has puzzled and perplexed generat...
Promoting Public Health: Toward a fast, accurate urine test for pneumonia
Scientists are reporting the discovery of the potential basis for a urine test to diagnose community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), a difficult-t...
New fuels: Biofuels: A more economical process for making ethanol from non-food sources
Scientists in Wisconsin are reporting discovery of a way to lower the cost of converting wood, corn stalks and leaves, switch grass, and oth...