Kathmandu — A national biotechnology hackathon is set to take place in Nepal later this month, aiming to generate innovative solutions to the country’s food system challenges. The three-day event, Genome Biothon 2026, will run…
New Self-Sustained Multi-Sensor Platform for Environmental Monitoring
A research team, led by South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has engineered a self-sustaining sensor platform to continuously monitor the surrounding environment without having an external power source. [caption id="attachment_12232"…
New center brings together biologists, engineers to improve…
[caption id="attachment_12223" align="alignnone" width="677"] Edgar Spalding hopes this room by the loading dock of the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center will become a hub for biologists, engineers and agronomists to collaborate on improving crops by measuring…
Printing bricks from moon dust using the sun’s…
[caption id="attachment_12215" align="alignright" width="305"] Brick 3D printed from moondust using focused sunlight[/caption] Bricks have been 3D printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated sunlight – proving in principle that future lunar colonists could one day…
Study measures air pollution increase attributable to air…
When summer temperatures rise and people turn to their air conditioners to stay cool, something else also increases: air pollution. A new study published Wednesday (May 3, 2017) in the journal Environmental Science & Technology…