Tag: Nov2018

Clean water is becoming scarcer at a time when the world’s population is growing. Now, scientists at the University of New South Wales and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have found a way to make dirty water clean enough to drink. The researchers have developed a simple filtering sheet that cleans up...

Despite the thriving universe of craft beers, the U.S. market for beer is shrinking, as younger drinkers have a long list of coffees, teas, energy drinks, and more exotic beverages that distract them from plain old brew. That’s one reason why total US beer sales fell 1 percent in 2017. So, the biggest brewing companies...

A Canadian study suggests that the epidemic of childhood obesity may be caused in part by the chemicals in typical antibacterial household cleaners. The researchers theorize that such chemicals are absorbed through the lungs, skin, or mouth (babies taste everything) and find their way into babies’ intestines. Once there, they kill off key elements of...

And it started beating on its own. In a lab, the scientists created a scaffold of nanofibers made of gelatin and a biodegradable plastic. Then they seeded it with living heart cells. After a few days, the heart cells had reproduced, covered the scaffold, and it started to beat. Housed in a container simulating conditions...

Anyone who’s had to manhandle a 4-by-8-foot sheet of plywood into place and hold it steady while nailing it to a wall will appreciate the construction robots developed at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The humanoids are designed to ease the shortage of construction laborers in a nation with one of...

Instead of starting a cancer patient on a drug and then waiting weeks to see if it works, scientists at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have come up with an innovative way to speed up the news. The team has created cubic electronic nanosensors coated with a substance that lets them pass through the...