Research News
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Can you create 2D nanosheets from cat litter?
What do talcum powder, beach sand and cat litter have in common? Surprisingly, they can all be used to create two-dimensional materials, known as nanosheets. In what’s believed to be a world first, researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Manchester used a technique called liquid phase exfoliation (LPE) to create 2D sheets […]
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Bee grooming behaviour could help with microelectromechanical cleaning
A new study on the grooming habits of bees has given new physical insight into the process of pollination, and could have implications for future microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA, and Kiel University in Germany, examined how pollenating insects that purposely cover themselves with millions of pollen […]
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Environmental impact overlooked as ethanol production drives grassland loss
More than three million acres of grassland around ethanol refineries in the USA was lost to crop production between 2008 and 2012, as the USA sought to increase biofuel production, according to a new study. Introduced as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, the Renewable Fuel Standard version 2 (RFS2) […]
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Liquid breathing moves a step closer thanks to measurement study
Liquid ventilation –breathing a liquid instead of air – has long been the stuff of science fiction, and despite experimental clinical use, its potential for treating severe pulmonary or cardiac trauma, and use in deep diving and space travel, it is still not widely used or understood. However, thanks to the work of German researchers […]
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Big can be best when it comes to wind farms
Danish researchers have identified a method to assess the efficiency of different sized onshore and offshore wind farms. To reach their conclusion, the team investigated whether the farm power density – the power per unit area – of very large wind farms was limited, and related this to their efficiency and annual energy production. Published […]
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Personalised radiotherapy approach may help beat bone tumours
Researchers in the UK have developed a new, personalised and more effective approach to treating cancer patients with bone metastases. The team used radiobiological models to calculate the absorbed radiation doses needed to eradicate all the bone lesions in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). They put forward a new model to predict the decrease […]
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Study: Volkswagen’s excess emissions 'could lead to 1,200 premature deaths in Europe'
Countries hit hardest by automaker’s emissions scandal include Germany, Poland, France, and Czech Republic. In September 2015, the German Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest car producer, admitted to having installed “defeat devices” in 11 million diesel cars sold worldwide between 2008 and 2015. The devices were designed to detect and adapt to laboratory tests, making […]
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Researchers move a step closer to first full-body PET scanner
Researchers from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have revealed the first results from the EXPLORER project – which aims to build world’s first full total-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a molecular imaging technique widely used in clinical diagnostics and clinical research to observe metabolic processes and molecular […]
