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Glowing crystals designed to detect and capture heavy-metal toxins such as lead and mercury could prove to be a powerful tool in locating and cleaning up contaminated water sources.Motivated by publicised cases in which high levels of heavy metals were found in drinking water in Flint, Mich., and Newark, N.J., a science team led by researchers at Rutgers University used intense X-rays at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to probe the structur...

Silicon Valley in California spawns the awesome giants that hold the future in their hands but they cannot solve their traffic problem. Airbus Helicopters from Europe has the Vahana project, creating an autonomous flying vehicle platform for individual passenger and cargo transport, mimicking car sharing, with flight tests in 2017. Reliable sense-and-avoid technology is still needed. Airbus predicts global demand of millions, meaning low costs. ...

A review of the latest research shows that combining a sugar, obtained from crab and shrimp shells, with a variety of nanomaterials could lead to the development of biomedical applications that enhance bone regeneration, wound healing and targeted drug delivery.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE, British scientist, theorist, author and broadcaster, will be speaking at Lab Innovations 2016, the UK’s leading event dedicated to laboratory professionals, which returns to Birmingham’s NEC on 2nd-3rdNovember. Questions: Laboratory News

A major new discovery by scientists at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Cardiff in the UK, and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia, has shown that hydrocarbon wax rapidly releases large amounts of hydrogen when activated with catalysts and microwaves.This discovery of a potential safe storage method, reported in the Nature journalScientific Reports, could pave the way for widespread adoption of hydr...

Versaperm's latest range of permeability meters can be used for both quality control and product development. They measure vapour permeability in around half an hour for some samples and are accurate in the PPM (Parts per Million) to PPB (Billion) range.

The search for environmentally-friendly means of transport becomes ever more urgent when we look at climate change statistics.A study from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that the concentration of CO2 in the air reached 400ppm in 2012/2013, the highest since scientific measurements began, and with the year 2014/2015 being the warmest on record it doesn’t show signs of stopping.

An environmentally friendly, efficient and low-cost method for hydrogenation of graphene with visible light has been developed by researchers at Uppsala University and AstraZeneca Gothenburg, Sweden. The research study is presented in an article in Nature Communications.The study shows that the two-dimensional and atom-thin carbon material graphene reacts with formic acid in a water solution upon irradiation with visible light.

Exhibiting behaviour that researchers had never anticipated: The material gives off oxygen and begins oscillating, almost resembling a living, breathing organism, is exposing one type of an oxide structure called perovskite to both water vapour and streams of electrons.

“A new industrial revolution”. If I told you that’s how French President François Hollande recently described a form of technology, what would you think he was talking about — Robots, planes or perhaps driverless cars? In fact, Monsieur Hollande was referring to a new lithium battery plant. ByMichele Windsor, direct sales and marketing manager,Accutronics