A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
Engineered bacterium produces an important industrial chemical
[caption id="attachment_5636" align="alignright" width="300"] Metabolic engineering strategies for 1,3-diaminopropane production using C4 pathway Copyright: KAIST[/caption] A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at…
A Single Germline Stem Cell “Switch” May be…
[caption id="attachment_5595" align="alignright" width="293"] Crawling C. elegans hermaphrodite worm (Credit: Bob Goldstein, Wikimedia Commons)[/caption] Aging is not gradual in the C. elegans roundworm. It begins suddenly at reproductive maturity (or roundworm puberty), according to a…
KAIST Develops Fiber-Like Light Emitting Diodes for Wearable…
A research team at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed fiber-like light emitting diodes, applicable to wearable displays. [caption id="attachment_5591" align="alignright" width="162"] The Next Generation Wearable Display Using Fiber Based Light…
Better estimates of worldwide mercury pollution
New findings show Asia produces twice as much mercury emissions as previously thought. [caption id="attachment_5587" align="alignnone" width="639"] Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants,…