Out of Thin Air
SEQUESTRATION
Vox, the popular United States media site, had an insightful column this past September about what the world needs to do if it has any hope of keeping planetary warming...
Read More >>Silicon Renaissance
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Can silicon detect and fight cancer, turn a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide into a fuel and form an inexpensive way to separate hydrogen from water? Is it possible to use the second-most abundant element in the Earth’s crust to create superior batteries for electric cars, low-cost lasers and literally dirt-cheap methods of detecting explosives?
Read More >>Cornfield of Dreams
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
Anton Korenevski was doing laboratory work one night as part of a study into how bacteria stick to surfaces when he spotted something unusual. A post-doctoral researcher at the University...
Read More >>Battle of the nanotubes
MATERIALS
When one thinks of the word “nanotube,” the other word that’s likely to come to mind is “carbon.” Even a Google search reveals this bias. It’s easy to understand why....
Read More >>Waxing poetic about plastics
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
It’s in your car tires and the roads you drive on. It bonds the wood particles in your desk. It coats the apples and fancy cheeses you eat for lunch....
Read More >>Pure pursuit
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
If it’s unfair to judge a book by its cover, it’s equally unfair to judge a promising new technology by the ho-hum building housing it. When first arriving at Xogen Technologies’ wastewater...
Read More >>The power of spin
INNOVATION
There has been so much thought put into anticipating, avoiding, and destroying tornadoes that I became quite intrigued in early 2007 when I received the following...
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