Various obsolete Tube carriages in London — lying disused for years — are dumped to just add to the permanent landfill, as most of the parts are non-degradable. To find a better use of these unused Tubes, a new charity is helping the company ‘Tube..
Disused Tube carriages being turned into studio space! Read More »
Scientists are up with their gloves in developing a device that can power micro and nano devices by using just water or heat! And to develop this, they are taking the inspiration from nature – i.e ‘ferns’ that uses the power of evaporation to move…
Fern-inspired ‘Evaporation-Powered’ tiny motors! Read More »
Making ethanol form corn and sugarcane is no more a new concept! With the demands for bio-fuel soaring, to shift a bit of the increasing burden from ethanol, a Japanese research group has developed a technology that extracts ethanol from ‘inedible…
Honda makes ethanol from inedible plants, and not corn and sugarcane! Read More »
By now, many of us have become aware of the environmental hazards those home-cooling gadgets create. But, we are helpless in helping the environment heal from the injuries, the generating greenhouse gases are creating, unless provided with an…
Water-retentive concrete to keep buildings cool! Read More »
Carbon dioxide is considered as one of the biggest culprits in increasing global warming – a serious contributor to climate change. With the burning of fossil fuels carbon dioxide is released hugely. But, with the increasing vehicles across the…
Converting released carbon dioxide into a useful fuel! Read More »
European has designed three meteorological operational satellites for monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere from the polar orbit! And the first in the series — MetOp-A is scheduled to be launched on October 7 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
It will…
Europe to launch its first polar-orbiting weather satellite Read More »
The invasive Argentine ants turning havoc in the United States and neither pesticides, nor trapping could stop them from invasion! So, the University of California, Irvine chemists and biologists have found a natural way to finally check the spread of the
A natural Way to Control the Destructive Argentine Ants’ spread Read More »
The genome of the poplar tree — black cottonwood genome – has been sequenced for the first time completely. And this work on the Populus trichocarpa will eventually help develop trees as an ideal feedstock for a new generation of bio-fuels – like…
Poplar Genome Sequenced: It will help develop bio-fuel generating trees! Read More »
With the changing lifestyle’s increasing demands for more and more laptops, people are buying them even creating holes in their pockets. But, to protect their precious gadget from bumps and scratches, laptop bags are also in demand. But, what do you..
Tread’s laptop bags made from recycled Colombian truck tyres Read More »
The day is not far off when people will be able to breathe underwater without the help of breathing gadgets, but by artificial gills. Inspired by beetles that can trap air to keep from drowning, scientists in England investigated…
Diving Beetle-inspired artificial gills: Humans will not need oxygen masks underwater! Read More »
