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Energy refers to the application of engineering to energy efficiency and services, facility management, ecology, and alternative energy technologies. It includes renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal power, biofuels, and hydro power.
Enzyme tweaking leads to biodegradable plastics
MIT chemists have determined the structure of a bacterial enzyme that can produce biodegradable plastics, an…
Filtration device to clean up manufacturing facilities
Hinestroza, Associate Professor of fiber science and director of undergraduate studies in the College of Human…
Little display device runs on office lighting
Microsoft Research is up to something that could be a work productive wonder. Right now the technology is in the…
Gold-plated DNA wires conduct energy
The transistor industry has shrunk the central elements of their computer chips to fourteen nanometers in the…
The seagull diet: Sea food and eat it
Ocean-faring birds are sometimes found with bellies full of plastic. But very little research examines why…
Fuel efficiency standards to reduce carbon emissions
A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere could provide some valuable guidance on the most effective…
Cure for Zika virus developed in mice
The most devastating consequence of Zika virus infection is the development of microcephaly, or an abnormally small…
Comprehensive evaluation platform for GaN transistors launched
GaN Systems has launched a daughterboard style evaluation kit to help power design engineers easily evaluate the…
Through the radioactive waste glass…
Rutgers researcher Ashutosh Goel has discovered ways to immobilize nuclear waste – the offshoot of decades of…
Waste not, want not: Scrap metal energy generation
Put some metal scraps from the junkyard in a glass jar with a common household chemical; and, voilà, you have a…