10th March 2012 Archive
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Boffins boost fuel-cell future with 'nanowire forest'
Harvesting hydrogen without greenhouse-gassy juice
Researchers at a California university have developed a nanowire-based method to efficiently harvest hydrogen for fuel cells without the need for electricity, which is commonly generated by greenhouse-gas producing fossil fuels or nuclear reactors with their problematic waste. "This is a clean way to generate clean fuel," said …
Science 10 Mar 00:55
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NASA planning delicious Martian microbe menu
Ames boss outlines biotech future
NASA's Ames Research Center may be synonymous with satellites and propulsion systems, but the agency is also involved in developing genetic organisms tailored to make the lives of astronauts – and maybe everyone else – a little easier. "One area I'm really excited about is synthetic biology," Dr. S. Pete Worden, the Center's …
Space 10 Mar 01:04
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Ten... in-car gadgets and accessories
Car Week Dashboard fixation
With so much tech being built into the even the most mundane of motors, writing round-ups of car gadgets isn’t as easy as it used to be. For this list, the brief was even more exacting: only include kit that if you were given one for Christmas it wouldn’t be on eBay come Boxing Day. There’s a lot here to do with attaching …
reghardware 10 Mar 09:00
