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If the medium is the message, what price mathematics?

Added: 23 Sep 2002

Dr. Mike Spear ponders over why media studies are so popular with today's school-leavers and finds …

Chemical risk

Added: 16 Sep 2002

Research at Oregon Health & Science University has revealed that certain chemical ingredients of ga…

Arsenic and old lakes

Added: 3 Sep 2002

MIT researchers have shown that a common pollutant strongly impacts the behaviour of arsenic and po…

CO2 makes things cleaner

Added: 3 Sep 2002

ICI and Linde have adapted a supercritical fluid used in the American aerospace industry to clean h…

UK Government energy policy unrealistic

Added: 2 Sep 2002

The Royal Academy of Engineering has told Energy Minister Brian Wilson that the UK Government's ene…

Neural network to cut pollutants?

Added: 22 Aug 2002

The US Department of Energy has signed an agreement with Tampa Electric Power Company to demonstrat…

UK companies fined for Aeron pollution

Added: 21 Aug 2002

Three companies who trade at premises in Felinfach, Lampeter, Cardiganshire have been fined a total…

Recycling solvent vapour

Added: 7 Aug 2002

A research team at the University of Bath has developed a way to recover and recycle solvent vapour…

Bayer's arsenic boost

Added: 1 Aug 2002

Research from Bayer and Severn Trent has led to the development of a substance which can re…

Reducing mercury emissions

Added: 24 Jul 2002

ADA Environmental Solutions and PG&E Corporation's National Energy Group have begun a field test fo…

These esters don't pollute

Added: 23 Jul 2002

Sumitomo Chemical has developed a new process to produce fatty acid methyl esters without generatin…

US files suit against Motiva

Added: 19 Jul 2002

Civil suits have been files by the United States and Delaware against Motiva Enterprises in connect…

Wind power makes Hydrogen

Added: 12 Jul 2002

Quantum Technologies has been awarded a contract to provide a hydrogen fuel storage system for a wi…

Plastic nuggets aid agricultural plastic waste disposal

Added: 3 Jul 2002

An agricultural engineer at Penn State University has created burnable, energy-efficient plastic nu…

FDA suspends operations at Air Liquide

Added: 20 Jun 2002

The US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has shut down certain operations of Air Liquide Am…

Membrane filters offer options for cleaner water

Added: 18 Jun 2002

University of Houston researchers are studying the large-scale employment of membrane filters to re…

Cleaner water

Added: 13 Jun 2002

A Northwestern University environmental engineer has developed a water treatment device that render…

Spotting contaminated chickens

Added: 13 Jun 2002

Researchers at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth have developed a rapid procedure which will ena…

A biodegradable notebook

Added: 5 Jun 2002

Fujitsu has developed what it claims is the world's first notebook computer housing to use …

Aluminium waste headache solved

Added: 31 May 2002

An Australian research team believes it has solved one of the world's big industrial waste headache…