Vapor Wake Dogs Stay On Target
If you travel by air or work in a government building, you’re no stranger to long lines leading to security scanners. Annoying perhaps, but they’re safety precautions put in place to protect us. Those who wish us harm are also no strangers to this technology. They constantly look for ways to defeat it. Enter Auburn [...]
Read more Tiny Sensors Detect Huge Diseases
Sensors developed by food safety engineer Bryan Chin are revolutionizing the way inspectors test food for biological pathogens that sicken about one in six Americans each year. A 2011 outbreak of Listeria claimed 16 lives in Colorado. Salmonella contamination of eggs, tomatoes, jalapenos and peanut butter from 2008 to 2010 infected thousands of people and [...]
Read more You’re really going to eat THAT!?
Salmonella in peanut butter. E. coli in beef. Listeria in lettuce. Each year a surprising number – one in six – of Americans get sick from tainted food. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that more than 3,000 of those people die. Part of the problem is the global supply chain. Those peanuts may come [...]
Read more Energy the Way Nature Intended It?
When Wei Zhan got to thinking about solar panel expenses, he started looking at the inefficiencies in traditional silicon solar panels and researching systems that were more efficient. He found some. They’re called plants.
Read more Biofuel Solutions for the Southeast
The IBSS partnership is a group of Universities and companies determined to bridge the divide between farmers and liquid fuel producers. Through improved genetics, planting and harvesting processes, transportation and storage innovations, IBSS is equipped to make bio-fuel production in the Southeast a reality.
Read more Bomb Detection Robots Take the Field
Here in the U.S., there are roughly 11 million acres contaminated with unexploded ordnance—an area about the size of Florida. It gives a whole new importance to the policy “Call before you dig.” The EPA calls unexploded ordinance an “imminent and substantial” threat, and estimates that it may take more than $14 billion to clean up.
Read more The New “Green” Asphalt
Asphalt may look sticky and black, but Randy West and his team at the National Center for Asphalt Technology are working to make it green.
Read more Tatarchuk Tackles the Tiny Trouble
With a little wet spaghetti and piano wire you can power a Trident submarine, and build the world’s most efficient air filter.
Read more Plant Experts Combat Dangerous Weed
…like the famed iceberg that slew the Titanic, the majority of the danger from this plant lies underground. It’s got an incredibly dense root system—as much as 80% of the mass of the plant—and it sends out specialized root systems, called rhizomes, to choke the life out of everything around it for meters.
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