Ask anyone about carbon dioxide emissions and, depending on their field of interest, they may respond with changes facing the automotive industry, or perhaps power generation, food waste might be somewhat of a rarer conversation piece.
The next time you...
We haven't seen a whole lot of new stuff from Smart, the tiny car with big fuel economy numbers, and we love that the Smart Electric Drive is one of the cheapest electric vehicles in the US, but can't...
Thanks to its simplistic design, the NLiteN 2D-Lite could be the cheapest LED bulb replacement on the market, even cheaper than CFLs!
LED bulbs are exceptionally efficient at lighting our homes. For example, the standard 100W incandescent bulb draws, well,...
Does the Cell Phone Recycling Act from 2003 really work? Apparently not, as research by Jean-Daniel M. Saphores, Ph.D, an economist from University of California, indicates.
In his attempt to propose improvements to electronic waste (e-waste) recycling practices, Saphores questioned the...
The state of California hired a team of researchers from Ecofys and Northwestern University, and the University of California, Berkeley to develop science-based methods to assess the amount of free allowances California facilities can receive on the products they...
There has been a lot of focus on autonomous vehicles in the last few years, but development of the technology is complicated and expensive. A specially-modified Ford S-Max with autonomous driving technology features big at this year's Frankfurt Motor...
It's been long in coming, but finally we get a look at the BMW i8 that was hinted at a couple of years ago, and it's a beauty!
The Frankfurt Motor Show is a great venue to see some...
In Holland, Michigan, an LG Chem plant sits idle , in spite of the demand for the Chevy Volt and Cadillac ELR traction batteries that it was built to produce.
It seemed that everything was going the right way for...
The American Chemical Society (ACS) 246th National Meeting and Exposition, held between 8th and 12th of September in Indianapolis, yet again impresses the audience with numerous exciting talks and innovative research.
Among the presenters was a team from University of...
It might actually be possible to convince corporations to put smart windows in buildings after scientists at Heliotrope Technologies, in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed an inexpensive, energy-efficient glass composite.
The new glass composite has the unprecedented...
