5+ hour, 39+ min ago   (667+ words) In response, researchers in the Pinto Lab at Georgia Tech set out to reimagine the monitoring process. They began developing a portable technology that allows teams to see and understand what microorganisms are present in a sample almost immediately. That…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (573+ words) The high impact between the metal balls in a ball mill reactor and the polymer surface is sufficient to momentarily liquefy the polymer and facilitate chemical reactions. While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (855+ words) The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life itself and how it could have arisen. In our…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (936+ words) Scientists used pharmaceutical waste to create a new material with interesting properties. Mitrija/iStock via Getty Images Today, approximately 1,800,000 acres of land in the United States is used for landfill waste disposal. In terms of volume, the U.S alone generated…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago   (560+ words) Matsumoto, who is also a principal investigator at the'International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM2) at Hiroshima University, is the corresponding author on a new study exploring the physics of "jamming" " a phenomenon when soft or stretchy…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (175+ words) A charcoal-like material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors could be a cheap, sustainable way to keep pollution from washing off roadways and into Georgia's lakes and rivers. Engineers at Georgia Tech and Georgia Southern University…...