3D printers, able to produce solid plastic objects from computer designs, have existed for quite a while. In fact open source self-replicating 3D printers have existed for years. What makes this 3D printer different is that instead of a plastic polymer, it uses live cells as its construction (more...)
Archive of 2009 December:
On the second day of the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, a paper has surfaced which has developing nations “furious”. The Guardian reports that a paper identified as “the Danish text” proposes that climate change funds be controlled by the World (more...)
Posted on December 9, 2009
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Electronic devices and internal combustion engines are some of the biggest consumers of energy worldwide. As a side effect of energy consumption, they produce heat which is more often than not simply released into the environment. A concept published recently in the Journal of Applied Physics (more...)
Posted on December 9, 2009
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Researchers have, for a while now, been able to create tiny nanoscale structures, using all kinds of molecular building blocks. One technique which is rapidly taking off is using DNA as the construction material. It can potentially lead to self-assembling or even replicating structures, highly (more...)
Posted on December 9, 2009
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Biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel have shown some useful characteristics in the search for alternative fuels. They are attractive because existing infrastructure can make use of the fuels with minimal modification, however they are not without their problems. Both emit greenhouse gases such (more...)
Posted on December 9, 2009
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