Author Archives: Carol Mosley

NSF Grants Fund Studies to Explore Mysterious Properties of Glass

Despite all that we know about the properties of the materials we call glass, there is so much more that is still a mystery. When we think of the physical properties of glass it calls…

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Amethyst Hotels: Dutch Firm “NL Architects” Offers a Gem of an Experience in Its Proposed Chain

Imagine yourself looking out from inside a giant amethyst cathedral geode. Admit it. The very idea of nesting in a crystal cave stirs something primal deep in your bones. And yet, it evokes something ethereal…

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Finally, a Way to Make Plastics Recycling Make Sense: Cut Out the Water & Cut the Cost

Plastic is one of those materials we love to hate. Its properties solve so many problems yet create so many others. A Mexican company, Ak Inovex, thinks their innovative recycling process can make a difference.…

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SPIDER Telescope Returns From Space With New Data About the Early Universe

This SPIDER doesn’t crawl up walls in search of flies; it hitches a ride via balloon to the edge of space seeking gravitational waves produced during the Big Bang. The successful New Year’s Day launch…

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Hubble Gets a New View of the “Pillars of Creation” After 25 Years in Orbit

One of Hubble Space Telescope’s most spectacular photos sent home was the image we got in 1995 of the “Pillars of Creation.” Now, in celebration of Hubble’s 25 years in orbit, we get the “new…

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Bill Gates Thinks Omni Processor’s Potable Water From Human Waste is Delicious…

Yep! Water you can drink from the waste you create. Does it get any more sustainable than that? Bill Gates is sold on the idea, and the Gates Foundation has put funding into Janicki Bioenergy’s…

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New Wind Tree Design: Green “Leaves” Are Actually Wind Turbines

With an eye on art and a brain on science, energy conservation can have an aesthetic, as well as ecological, reward. In a testament to the value of taking time to ponder and let the…

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Hemp Holds Promise As Supercapacitor: Hemp Nanosheets Might Even Outdo Graphene

Recent attempts to improve the energy density of supercapacitors by inventing better electrodes have focused on the properties of graphene to achieve that end. But now it seems that hemp could meet that goal at a…

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New Solar Technique Captures Infrared Rays

Renewable energy has been making exponential strides in efficiency of output and reduction of costs over the last decade. Solar itself has made advances that some believe will make fossil fuels go the way of the…

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Manhattan’s Pier 55 to Get Massive Makeover

What was once the landing point for Titanic survivors on the Carpathia will soon become a refuge of another sort as a respite from the concrete jungle. The “public/ private partnership” between the Hudson River…

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