Round Up

Light & Energy Roundup

January 14, 2016

Engineers demonstrate a new way to harvest the wasted energy of an incandescent light bulb.

January 7, 2016

Slowing Alzheimer’s disease by cleansing the brain of toxic proteins; also, new findings on a …

February 12, 2015

Batteries from snail shell proteins and medicines from carnivorous mushrooms.

February 3, 2015

A roundup of science news stories including making ethanol from nitrogen out of thin air, and an …

January 27, 2015

The Rosetta spacecraft currently orbits Comet 67P. Its uncanny resemblance to a child’s rubber ducky …

January 26, 2015

A roundup of some of this week’s most interesting science news, including key genetics variants …

November 18, 2014

How many microbes can be shared in a kiss?

August 15, 2014

Marijuana may adversely affect brain development in young users.

October 1, 2013

Discarded compact discs could be used to treat wastewater.

September 18, 2013

Scientists have figured out how to turn spider venom into an insecticide.

September 6, 2013

Researchers have found keys to aging in the brain.