
Food & Drink
Natural blue food colour could replace existing artificial substitutes
The discovery could provide a natural alternative to artificial colourants, and a solution to the long-standing blue dye challenge facing the food industry.
Food & Drink
The discovery could provide a natural alternative to artificial colourants, and a solution to the long-standing blue dye challenge facing the food industry.
Health & Wellbeing
The sensor functions based on colour-changing gold nanoparticles, which reflect infrared light when an infrared reader is used.
Science
Researchers have developed a biodegradable plastic derived from organic fish waste that would otherwise be thrown away.
Property & Construction
An Israeli company is using kenaf, along with hemp, to derive materials such as thermal insulating plaster, masonry blocks and walls.
Agriculture & Energy
Researchers have developed a device that can harvest daylight and relay it to underground spaces, reducing the energy cost of lighting them up.
Computing & Tech
The cable that holds the drone in place provides connectivity as well as power.
Science
A simple manufacturing process generates biomass-based plastics from the wood powder typically found at lumber mills.
Science
The water produced from the device has a freshwater purity of 95 per cent, and so is able to increase production of crops such as rice and wheat.
Science
Using solar power to split water molecules creates hydrogen without the vast amount of usual carbon dioxide emissions.
Fashion & Beauty
Engineers have developed a way to turn polyethylene into wearable fabric with a low environmental footprint.
Science
When combined with water, the fire suppressant cuts the amount of time and water needed to extinguish peat fires by 40 per cent.
Agriculture & Energy
Researchers have developed a way to use wood to generate electricity via a chemical process that removes lignin from wood cells.