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Watermelons: The Sweetest Ethanol Source Around

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 89
Wed May 27, 2009 at 12:49 PM

Ethanol is commonly produced from crops like corn, switchgrass, sugar cane and sweet sorghum. But the next big ethanol crop might the ultimate summer fruit: Watermelon. A 20-pound watermelon can yield 1.4 pounds of sugar, which can ...READ»

CHICKEN SALAD | 1 comment

Chicken Feather Biofuel Something to Cluck About

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 87
Fri Jul 24, 2009 at 3:46 PM

Chicken feather meal--a mix of processed chicken feathers, blood and innards--is one of the nastiest byproducts of the poultry processing industry. The 11 billion pounds of feather meal that pile up in the United States each year are ...READ»

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Future Air Force Drones to Be Powered by Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 87
Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 4:00 PM

The army has slowly taken advantage of advances in renewable energy with algae-derived jet fuel, trash-powered electricity generators, and now solar-powered aerial drones. The Air Force has spent $450,000 on a project researching the ...READ»

ESCALATORS | 4 comments

Student Invents Energy Efficient Escalator That Also Transports Wheelchairs

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 72
Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM

The new escalator has moving plates that join to form a platform for the wheelchair-bound.READ»

SMELL | 4 comments

Dating Site to Match Couples Based on Smell

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 58
Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM

Scientists have already demonstrated that scent is a key to attraction, and that the root causes are evolutionary. A new dating startup, two-and-a-half years in the making, aims to match people by their scent ...READ»

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Bucher CityCat: A Hydrogen-Powered Municipal Vehicle

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 52
Tue May 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM

Bucher CityCat H2, the world's first municipal utility vehicle powered by fuel cells, made its debut last week in Basel, Switzerland. The street-cleaning CityCat will undergo an 18-month trial to see how well it can reduce air ...READ»

HEMP | 3 comments

Would You Live in a Hemp House?

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 47
Wed Apr 8, 2009 at 1:03 PM

Hemp is useful for more than just summer camp necklaces and niche clothing items, according to researchers at the University of Bath. The university's BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials has discovered that hemp bound ...READ»

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION | Comment

Using Effective Hand Gestures In Public Speaking

BY Sims Wyeth
Relevancy Score: 46
Fri Jan 9, 2009 at 9:44 AM

Your hand gestures and your body language help enable an audience to better understand your meaning.READ»

BUS | Comment

How a Simple Design Tweak Could Save Fuel and Keep Bus Passengers Cool

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 39
Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 4:13 PM

It's virtually impossible to ride around on a public bus during the summer without having someone crack open a few windows. At the same time, open windows--and air conditioning, which is present on less than 5% of inter-city vehicles ...READ»

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Could Real-Life Tricorder Inventions Combat the Next Pandemic?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 32
Fri May 29, 2009 at 9:29 AM

Swine flu still rumbles on in the background, and it is still dangerous--but could two new inventions revealed this week give us Star Trek-like medical technology to help us combat future pandemics? Claims that scientists have ...READ»

FACIAL RECOGNITION | Comment

The Secret to Face Recognition? Nature's Own "Bar Code"

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 28
Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 8:54 AM

Every day, we recognize hundreds of faces without giving it a second thought. But unlocking exactly how humans pull off that seemingly simple feat has bedeviled researchers, who have been tantalized by the wealth of ...READ»

ATACAMA DESERT | Comment

New Earthly Extremophile Bacteria Could Live on Mars

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 23
Fri Mar 6, 2009 at 11:16 AM

A new type of extremophile life has been discovered in Chile that may help us recognize what life on Mars may look like--and that will undoubtedly help in the search for discovering that life, should it exist. Scientists pondering ...READ»

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