November 20, 2007
That hissing you hear? U.S. gas imports on the rise
Coming shortly after revelations that top oil companies are now spending less on oil discovery, the Baker Institute for Public Policy's Energy Forum now reports U.S. natural gas imports—which are approaching a quarter of all domestic energy use—will continue grow over the next 20 years. Continue...
Parting the photochemical smog
Smog is easy to see (it's brown and ugly), but the exact mechanisms that make it happen are not so clear. Scientists at Brookhaven Lab say they've made a device that finally gives useful information on how to stop smog. Better yet, it's cheap, small and lightweight. Continue...
Warp speed for compound breakdown
Thermo Fisher Scientific has published heady performance claims for a new analysis technology, laser diode thermal desorption (LDTD). Boosting sample volatility quickly through laser heat, compounds can be characterized up to 100 times faster. Continue...
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Fresh air, molecule by molecule
A thin coating placed on flexible fiberglass cloth is all that's needed purify air from contaminated sources. Even solids and liquid pollutants can be scrubbed using Applied Nanotech's new PhotoScrub technology, which will first see military use. Continue...
Overcoming adversity, one drug at a time
To gauge a person's tolerance to certain drugs, it generally requires potentially hazardous testing. A database of genetic profiles would a long way to preventing adverse reactions. Students at Purdue University have built just such a tool. Continue...
The birth of attotechnology?
Physicists at the University of Bath, UK, have reported the ability to manufacture low-power pulses of light from crystal fiber that last just a billion billionth of a second. The behavior of such efficiently manipulated light opens doors into the bizarre and mysterious quantum world. Continue...
Genomes for sale—your own
A German bioinformatics venture is now advertising the next stage in "personalized" medicine—the availability of individual human genome sequencing. The service is pricey (think millions) but within 10 years, GATC Biotech says, it could less than a thousand U.S. dollars. Continue...
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