According to this AP via Yahoo News story, $1 billion ghost town is planned for a 15-square mile area in Lea County, near Hobbs, New Mexico. The goal is to provide a safe location for research projects for next-generation applications. Sam Cobb, Hobbs Mayor, said the research facility will look just like an empty city […]

@Solarfeeds published a story this morning that may give entirely new definitions to recycling and biofuels. For decades, silicon has been a primary ingredient in semiconductor and transistor technology; however, new nano-sized semiconductors rely on something more organic: proteins found inside the human body. Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have created a new generation of protein-based transistors which […]

A few days ago, West Virginia Public Broadcasting did a story on Marshall University research findings that diesel fuel additives can harm the liver. A U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored study conducted at Huntington, West Virginia’s university shows that the nanoparticles commonly added to diesel fuel to increase fuel efficiency can pass through the airways and […]