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Nanogels used with drugs

Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed non-toxic, biodegradable nanogels that can be used for delivery of carbohydrate-based drugs. The nanogels...

The device measures nitric oxide levels in people’s breath. The sensor is equipped with a gas scrubber to isolate nitric oxide, and a polyethylene imine polymer to make the device especially sensitive to nitric oxide.

New device uses nanotubes to track asthma

Alexander Star, a chemistry professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Arts and Sciences, is leading a team in developing a sensor that could...

How Things Work: Air Traffic Control

Handling over 80,000 flights each day, air traffic controllers in the United States guide aircraft from the ground to the sky and back to the ground. Using...

Sci-Tech Briefs

Popcorn may cause lung disease According to Cecile Rose, a doctor at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, fumes from microwave popcorn may...

Griffin stands in front of a map showing the natural gas distribution in the United States. According to the Energy Information Administration, the United States had over 200,000 billion cubic feet of dry natural gas reserves in the United States in 2005, and 63,573,466 residents consumed natural gas.

Researchers study life-cycle fuel emissions

In a recently published paper called “Comparative Life-Cycle Air Emissions of Coal, Domestic Natural Gas, LNG, and SNG for Electricity Generation,”...

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