Maintain your equipment to prevent future challenges and unwanted costs. Keep your cooling and heating system at peak performance by having a professional contractor do annual pre-season check-ups. Contractors get busy once summer and winter come, so it's best to check the cooling system in the…

Maintain your equipment to prevent future problems and unwanted costs. Keep your cooling and heating system at its best performance by having a professional contractor do annual pre-season check-ups. Contractors get busy once summer and winter come, so it's best to check the cooling system in the…

Maintain your equipment to prevent future problems and unwanted costs. Keep your cooling and heating system at its best performance by having a professional contractor do annual pre-season check-ups. Contractors get busy once summer and winter come, so it's best to check the cooling system in the…

Maintain your equipment to prevent future challenges and unwanted costs. Keep your cooling and heating system at peak performance by having a professional contractor do annual pre-season check-ups. Contractors get busy once summer and winter come, so it's best to check the cooling system in the…

Hillphoenix announced it has received a 2014-2015 Achievement Award - Store Certification Excellence from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) GreenChill Partnership program. It’s the company’s fifth GreenChill award since the program launched in 2007.

Maintain your equipment to prevent future challenges and unwanted expenses. Keep your cooling and heating system at its best performance by having a professional contractor do annual pre-season check-ups. Contractors get busy once summer and winter come, so it's best to check the cooling system in…

GEM Energy, part of the Rudolph Libbe Group, announced that Bill Alexander has been named president of the company. Alexander has more than 25 years of experience in energy services, most recently with Siemens, Honeywell, FirstEnergy, and Johnson Controls.

Maintain your equipment to prevent future problems and unwanted costs. Keep your cooling and heating system at peak performance by having a professional contractor do annual pre-season check-ups. Contractors get busy once summer and winter come, so it's best to check the cooling system in the spring…

Most materials swell when warm, and shrink when cool. But some weird materials do the opposite. Although thermal expansion, and the cracking and warping that often result, occurs everyday -- in buildings, electronics, and almost anything else exposed to wide temperature swings -- physicists have…

While the cleaning of car exhausts is among the best known applications of catalytic processes, it is only the tip of the iceberg. Practically the entire chemical industry relies on catalytic reactions. Therefore, catalyst design plays a key role in improving these processes. An international team…

Most robotic parts used to today are rigid, have a limited range of motion and don't really look lifelike. Inspired by both nature and biology, a scientist has designed a novel robotic finger that looks, feels and works like the real thing. Using shape memory alloy, a 3D CAD model of a human finger,…

For nearly nine years, researchers at Lund University have been working on developing implantable electrodes that can capture signals from single neurons in the brain over a long period of time - without causing brain tissue damage. They are now one big step closer to reaching this goal, and the…

Virtual models can be created in the angiography room thanks to an approach developed by researchers and the university's departments of radiology, radiation oncology, and nuclear medicine.

The New York Public Library will begin its Midtown renovation, and as a first step will begin designing the renovation of its central circulating branch

A research team has created the exotic ring-shaped magnetic effects called skyrmions under ambient room conditions for the first time. The achievement brings skyrmions a step closer to use in real-world data storage as well as other novel magnetic and electronic technologies.

Quasiparticles are central to energy applications but can be difficult to detect. Researchers have seen evidence of quasiparticles called negative trions forming and fading in an ultrathin layer of semiconducting material.

Roof-system warranties contribute to increasing the sustainability of roofing systems.

Researchers have discovered that a mere 9-trillionths-of-a-meter reduction in the length of a chemical bond dramatically boosts the reactivity of a family of molecules that helps keep humans and many other organisms healthy.

Researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt -- molybdenum disulfide, 'molly' for short -- to stand in for platinum, a rare element with the moonlike price.

Chemists using computational techniques to predict how nanoscale materials will behave recently made a surprising discovery about the structure of bimetallic catalysts. An imperfect surface may produce a better catalyst.

Can the passage of time be measured precisely, always and everywhere? The answer will upset many watchmakers. A team of physicists have just shown that when we are dealing with very large accelerations, no clock will actually be able to show the real passage of time, known as 'proper time.'

An international team of researchers have designed and synthesized a nanometer-scale DNA 'machine' whose customized modifications enable it to recognize a specific target antibody.

Researchers have designed a specialized catheter for fixing holes in the heart using a biodegradable adhesive and patch. As the team reports, the catheter has been used successfully in animal studies to facilitate hole closure without the need for open heart surgery.

Scientists aspire to build nanostructures that mimic the complexity and function of nature's proteins. These microscopic widgets could be customized into incredibly sensitive chemical detectors or long-lasting catalysts. But as with any craft that requires extreme precision, researchers must first…

Researchers designed and made a material that manipulates the speed of light in a new, more effective way than previous methods, according to new findings.

A new fracturing fluid has been created that may increase the ability to develop geothermal energy, scientists report. This advance of tapping the natural heat of Earth may improve the cost-effectiveness and cleanliness of the process.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Tomas Lindahl Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK, Paul Modrich Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA, and Aziz…

A new study shows that iron-bearing rocks that formed at the ocean floor 3.2 billion years ago carry unmistakable evidence of oxygen. The only logical source for that oxygen is the earliest known example of photosynthesis by living organisms, say geoscientists.

How long do neutrons live? The answer could change how we think everything from the cosmos to coffee cups. Yet, scientists don’t agree on the neutron longevity. The disagreement is fanned by the limitations of today’s instruments. Now, a highly efficient detector is helping to resolve the puzzle.

In 2014, the Majorana Demonstrator started its search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Observation of this decay would have profound implications for our understanding of physics, including providing hints as to how the Big Bang produced more matter than it did antimatter.