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  • Video: Improving Rubber Using Compost

    Using food waste as a potential filler for natural rubber may make it suitable for electronic sealants and sensors.

  • New Phillips 66 Lubricant Product Aids Landfill-to-Energy Producers

    The new oil addresses challenges caused by corrosive compounds and contaminants that gas engines encounter during the process of converting landfill methane to energy.

  • Watch: Boosting Pharma Production with Green Catalysis Method

    Unlike conventional palladium-driven catalytic processes, a new pseudo-homogeneous catalysis method is fast, efficient and consumes nontoxic solvents.

  • Sensors Designed for Rapid Onsite Detection of Toxic Agents

    Organophosphate-detecting sensors are produced with an imprinting technique to create unique patterns of the target molecules on polymeric materials.

  • Watch: Volcanic Infrasound Changes May Signal Eruptions

    Monitoring changes in the infrasound character produced by open-vent volcanoes can signal a rise in lava lake level and eruption activity.

  • NASA’s New Exoplanet Hunter Will Begin Searching for Earth-like Worlds Orbiting Other Stars This Year

    The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will monitor over 200,000 of the brightest, nearby stars. Scientists expect to discover over 2,000 exoplanet candidates, around 300 of which will be Earth-sized or super-Earth-sized.

  • ITT Enidine Expands Rotorcraft Critical Component Portfolio

    New elastomeric bearings and dampers are designed to increase comfort and deliver better control.

  • Robotic System Helps Humans Organize and Put Away Their Groceries

    Researchers have developed a robotic system that they hope will be able to help humans do tasks around the house like organizing and putting away groceries.

  • Gas and Solar Plants for Indiana Utility as Coal Is Retired

    Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana-South plans to install 50 MW of solar and build a $900 million natural gas-fired power plant. The utility also plans to close more than 500 MW of coal-fired capacity.

  • Intestine-Chip Shows Promise for Personalized Medicine

    Organ-on-chip technology is being used to demonstrate that human intestinal lining cells created outside the body will mirror living tissue, opening a door to personalized drug therapies.

  • Video: Montreal to Start Work on Automated Transit

    The Reseau Express Metropolitain will be the fourth-largest such system in the world, and will rank as the largest public transportation network in greater Montréal in 50 years.

  • Japan Expected to Be Home to World's Tallest Wooden Skyscraper in 2041

    Tokyo, Japan, is expected to be home to the world’s tallest wooden skyscraper by 2041.

  • Pencil and Paper as Thermoelectric Power Generators

    Researchers put pencil to paper to consider the use of inexpensive materials to demonstrate the thermoelectric effect. The materials they selected: pencil and paper.

  • Research Finds that Autonomous Vehicles Lower Fuel Consumption and Smooth Traffic Flow

    Researchers have found that when autonomous vehicles are added into bulk traffic, traffic flow and fuel consumption are actually boosted.

  • Researchers Develop Algorithm to Fight the Spread of Infectious Disease

    Using data concerning behavioral, demographic and epidemic disease trends, researchers developed a model of disease spread, capturing information such as underlying population dynamics and contact patterns among people.

  • Wyoming Wind Wins Bid for RMP Capacity Growth

    Rocky Mountain Power selected four wind projects at a cost of $1.5 billion with delivery by 2020.

  • Plastics manufacturing responsible for significant amount of microplastic leakage: Study

    While most studies concerning the impact of plastic pollution on marine life focuses on plastic waste such as discarded plastic grocery bags and beverage containers, researchers from Sweden are now turning their attention to the impact that small plastic pellets — typically used as a raw material in the production of a variety of plastic goods — shipped from manufacturing sites to different plants are having on the environment.

  • BP Sees Electric and Self-Driving Cars Impacting Oil Demand by 2040

    But oil production will still be higher than it is today.

  • An Expandable Proppant That Retains Permeability

    An expandable proppant based on phase change composites reacts with reservoir fluids to expand fractures and apply force while retaining permeability.

  • Regulatory Setbacks Lead Utility to Close a Big Coal Plant

    Allegheny Energy Supply plans to deactivate the 1,300 megawatt coal-fired Pleasants Power Station in West Virginia by January 2019.

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