New Nanotechnology from Northeastern University to Help Audax Medical Clients
In Massachusetts, Audax Medical, Inc. has a worldwide license from Northeastern University for new nanotechnology of a self-assembling arginine-rich peptide to add to its...
Biodegradable grill now available in US
In Texas, a 100% biobased and biodegradable grill originally developed in Denmark has officially launched in the US market.
The one-time-use grill, dubbed CasusGrill, is...
Love Your FitBit? How About a Skin Patch that Acts like a Lab Test...
In Washington, thanks to researchers at Northwestern University痴 Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics you can now wear a small round skin patch to get back...
Made from Stone: New packaging alternative (literally) rocks
In Florida, startup Okeanos is launching a packaging alternative from calcium carbonate, a naturally occurring material found in rocks, eggshells, and gastropods.
Calcium carbonate has...
Plastic-free grocery aisle generates controversy
In Amsterdam, a supermarket aisle advertised as free of plastic packaging is generating debate over greenwashing and consumer behavior.
Katherine Martinko, of treehugger.com, blogs that...
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, what a nice fish habitat you have become
In California, used and unsold Christmas trees are being recycled by being thrown into lakes to create reefs and fish habitats in otherwise barren...
Society for Biomaterials Awards 2017 Founders Award to University of Chicago Professor
In Chicago, Jeffrey Hubbell, a Professor of Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise at the University of Chicago, received the Society for Biomaterials’ 2017 Founders...
No Plastic Allowed for Weddings in One State
In India, Kerala, a state in South India, has declared a war on disposable plastic and styrofoam. Due to pollution issues and in an...
Rock on! Wood type doesn’t matter for guitars
In the United Kingdom, Lancaster University researchers got to rockin’ with guitar players in the name of research, testing six different acoustic guitars in...
“Just levitate, just levitate” – Levitation now possible at home
In the United Kingdom, University of Bristol engineers developed a way to levitate matter with a 3D printed levitator using ultrasound waves that you...