With the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel impacting costs for automobiles, trucks, buses and the overall economy, a Temple University physics professor has developed a simple device which could dramatically improve fuel efficiency as much as 20 percent.
According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple’s Physics Department, the small device consists of an [...]
MIT biological engineers have found a way to mass-produce smell receptors in the laboratory, an advance that paves the way for “artificial noses” to be created and used in a variety of settings.
The work could also allow scientists to unlock the mystery of how the sense of smell can recognize a seemingly infinite range of [...]
If you’ve balanced a laptop computer on your lap lately, you probably noticed a burning sensation. That’s because ever-increasing processing speeds are creating more and more heat, which has to go somewhere — in this case, into your lap.
Two researchers at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science aim to lay the [...]
The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina’s Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.
University of Michigan paleontologist Jeffrey Wilson was part of the team that made the discovery, to be published Sept. 29 in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE and [...]
The five engines in Song-Charng Kong’s Iowa State University laboratory have come a long way since Karl Benz patented a two-stroke internal combustion engine in 1879.
There are fuel injectors and turbochargers and electrical controls. There’s more horsepower, better efficiency, cleaner burning and greater reliability.
But Kong — with the help of 15 graduate students and all [...]
Rugby players may get more than just the ball out of a scrum – herpes virus can cause a skin disease called “scrumpox” and it spreads through physical contact. Researchers have studied the spread of the disease among sumo wrestlers in Japan and have discovered that a new strain of the virus could be even [...]
