Air lubrication systems pump air beneath a hull to reduce friction, cutting fuel burn and helping ships meet modern efficiency rules like the EEDI. This video breaks down the physics of resistance, ...

Microbubbles in the tap water you just poured into a plastic glass are strong enough to create tiny abrasions on the inner layer of the plastic—quietly adding to our growing microplastic problem.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A researcher selects microplastics found in sea species at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research in Anávissos, Greece, near ...

If you read the research on microplastics, these pollutants appear to be as frightening as they are ubiquitous. Found throughout our bodies, food and environment, both microplastics and their ...

Researchers in India have engineered a 200 L hybrid photobioreactor that captures industrial CO 2 emissions and converts them into biodegradable plastic using indigenous microalgae. Image Credit: ...

While it might sound like a weapon of oceanic destruction in the hands of Aquaman’s arch enemies, the new “stingraybot” from a team at ETH Zurich (the Federal Institute of Technology of Switzerland) ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has developed the world’s first technology to generate millimeter-scale flow within a channel by using ...

Will support carbon neutrality by helping to eliminate the need for external pumps in cooling systems Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it hasdeveloped the world’s ...

When Graeme F. Woodworth, MD, decided to focus his research efforts on glioblastomas, “everybody thought it was a dead end,” the neurosurgeon recalled. It wasn’t an unusual path for him. His first job ...

Scientists believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind will-o’-the-wisps—the “ghostly” blue flames sometimes seen at night over marshes, wetlands and even cemeteries. Also known as ignis ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I'm a generally healthy 73-year-old man. I recently had blood work done and was incidentally noted to have high liver tests (ALT and AST). My doctor ordered a sonogram, which said that ...