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Lead batteries: a role model of safe, sustainable recycling
With a remarkable 99% recycling rate and successful circular economy, lead batteries surpass the sustainability of newer battery chemistries. Can they respond?
The reliability of...
Endocannabinoid signalling in olfactory neural circuits
Thomas Heinbockel presents groundbreaking evidence that the endocannabinoid system plays a role in regulating neuronal activity in the main olfactory bulb.
The cannabis plant Cannabis...
Scientists detect gamma rays coming from distant galactic sources
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, Mexico, detected gamma rays coming from distant galactic sources.
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov has detected gamma rays...
How to ‘cook’ anti-matter
Carsten Welsch tells Innovation News Network his ‘cooking recipe’ for anti-matter while addressing public preconceptions towards his research.
Carsten Welsch, a former CERN fellow, studied...
$75m to upgrade CERN’s ATLAS detector
Scientists led by Columbia University, USA, will be working to enhance the capabilities of the ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
"These improvements...
Using biomedical engineering to track the transfer of COVID-19
University of Utah’s biomedical engineering assistant professor Jessica Kramer is now researching how mucus aid the transfer of COVID-19 from person to person.
Researchers don't...
Introducing a newly launched drought monitoring and forecast programme
NASA satellites have been used to detect the minuscule gravitational changes caused by the movement of Earth’s water.
Two centres located in the University of...
When worlds collide: the right environment for start-up collaboration
In part four of an article series by Elena Bou, Innovation Director, EIT InnoEnergy, Bou discusses the importance of creating the right environment for...
WFEO’s president on sustainable development in engineering
Professor Gong Ke, president of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), spoke to Innovation News Network about the sustainable development of the engineering...
Scientist have developed a new sustainable white pigment
A new process developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has resulted in the creation of an extremely thin polymer foil that efficiently scatters...