Discovery

Brown fat is known as a certain tissue in mammals that helps warm the body. It is found in patches along the neck and between the shoulders of newborn mammals, including humans, and in adults of hibernating animals. Recently, a study that has been conducted by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has successfully created an energy burning brown [...]

Have you ever imagined about using Hydrogen as fuel for your daily life? Some of you may have still no idea about the use of this element. Recently, Engineers at the University of Leeds believes that someday, we’ll be able to operate laptop or cars by the old chip fat, extracted from the waste materials. They [...]

Electric cars today really get a big attention from US government and commercial viewer. Beside supporting the issue of energy efficiency, electric cars are also claimed to be environmentally frienly, because in most cases, they use an alternative fuel car that uses electric motors and motor controllers instead of an internal combustion engine (ICE). Currently, [...]

Radioactive wastes are waste products containing radioactive materials. They are usually the products of nuclear processes, such as nuclear fission. However, industries not directly connected to the nuclear industry may produce large quantities of radioactive waste. Recently, it has been reported in ScienceDaily that Scientists in Germany and India are reporting development of a new polymer [...]

As well as green plants and algae, some bacteria are also capable of using the energy in sunlight, to get their energy through photosynthesis. The green bacteria are particularly specialised for growth at very low light intensities. The ability of green bacteria to grow at very low light intensities depends on the way the light-absorbing [...]

The technology of hydrogen cars has been stepping closer to reality. California and Japan have many hydrogen cars being used as fleet vehicles now. Researchers at the Hydrogen Systems Laboratory at Purdue’s Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories have developed a critical part of a hydrogen storage system for cars that makes it possible to fill up a [...]

Biofuel known to be the solid, liquid or gaseous fuel derived from relatively recently dead biological material and is distinguished from fossil fuels, which are derived from long dead biological material. This gives us an information that biofuel can be derived from fossil fuels, and fossil fuels derived from long dead living material. What about deriving the [...]