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Glowing Crystals Clean Dirty Water
Fluorescent metal-organic frameworks detect and remove heavy metals from water.
Carbon Dioxide to Liquid Fuel — A Potential Win-Win
A new process could perform the double duty of cleaning up carbon emissions and providing a carbon-neutral process for producing fuel.
Purifying Water for Schools in Developing Countries
The point-of-use slow sand filters are made from readily available five-gallon plastic pails or 55-gallon drums.
Protecting Your Legacy Equipment from Cyber Attack
A Rockwell Automation blog offers three reasons for keeping security products and policies current.
IEEE and FERC to Address Energy Infrastructure and Market Challenges
The MOU helps align the two organizations' efforts to address the nation's energy challenges due to the growth in renewable generation resources, distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, energy storage, and more.
Smart Light Bulbs Hacked
The worm spread by jumping directly from one lamp to another using only the built-in ZigBee wireless connectivity and the lights' physical proximity.
Satellites Measure Earth Movement Down to the Millimeter
The new automatic radar service monitoring Europe’s seismic regions covers an area of three million square kilometers in 200-meter blocks.
Acoustic Buoy Helps Ships Avoid Whales
This new technology can help ships avoid lethal encounters with whales.
Insight: Interconnecting the IoT with Cloud Computing
As a rising number of devices are identified and connected to the world wide web, the concept of big data is forecast to grow exponentially. So are the pitfalls of traditional LANs.
Molecular Imaging Hack Makes Cameras "Faster"
Super temporal resolution microscopy allows scientists to view and gather useful information about fluorescing molecules at a frame rate 20 times faster than typical lab cameras allow.
Rock Star: LEDs Electrify Energy Management Efforts
LED technology can beat almost every other lighting technology and opens the door to new levels of energy use and control that can have grid-scale impacts.
Shared Traits of Heavy-emitting Abandoned Wells Are Identified
Wells with high emissions were either unplugged gas wells or those that were plugged but vented.
Smart Sensors Could Reduce Rail Delays
Wet leaves pose a safety challenge for train operators, potentially doubling the breaking distance and causing signaling issues or "disappearing trains" on the rail control systems.
Tracking Physical Activity via Wearables Data
Tracking physical activity is important because it is a key component for placing other health data in context.
Weak Control Laser Beam Could Boost Computer Chips
Researchers have developed an asymmetric metawaveguide that enables a weak control laser beam to manipulate a much more intense laser signal.
New Insight into Why Materials Break
Scientists found that a material's failure can be continuously tuned through changes in its underlying rigidity.
High-Producing U.S. Oil Wells Horizontally Drilled
More oil-bearing rock is exposed for production in horizontal drilling than in vertical drilling.
Marine Pumped Storage System Undergoes Testing
Pumped storage power plants installed on the seabed can use the high water pressure in very deep water to store electrical energy with the aid of hollow spheres.
Light-Seeking Nanorobots Could Have Medical Applications
One difficulty in nanorobot design is to enable these nanostructures to sense and respond to their environment.
Hydrogen in Gas Supply to Be Tested in 2017
The HyDeploy project aims to inject hydrogen into the existing natural gas network, and would make up a maximum of 20% of the volume of gas in the network.