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Detect terrorist bombers with feces
New technology

Detect terrorist bombers with feces

Swedish scientists have developed a device that can be attached inside a waste pipe to detect explosive materials that help track down terrorist bombs.

December 11, 2018
Produce 250,000 times the temperature of the sun
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Produce 250,000 times the temperature of the sun

Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) have been included in the Guinness Book of Records because, in a series of experiments on the collisions of gold ions…

December 11, 2018
Convert CO2 into carbon fuel
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Convert CO2 into carbon fuel

The team of scientists led by Paul Kenis, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, USA, teamed up with Dioxide Materials researc…

December 11, 2018
Artificial 'foam' absorbs heavy metals
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Artificial 'foam' absorbs heavy metals

This spongy material will absorb heavy metals in the same solution as a sponge, which promises to be useful in removing pollutants from the water. The product is the inv…

December 11, 2018