Edible coating for seabass preservation
Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) is one of the most commonly consumed food fish by Singaporeans. Seabass is loved by many consumers because of its high protein, low fat and ideal fatty acids composition. However, seabass is highly perishable due to t.....»»
Virgin Galactic unveils mirror-coated space plane known as "Spaceship III"
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism firm that hopes to send its first customers to space next year, unveiled a new spacecraft design on Tuesday. The sleek new space plane has a reflective coating that the company calls "mirror-like," and says will add.....»»
Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meat
Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance that may accelerate the development of cultured meat, acco.....»»
Eternal to build new coating production line in China
Eternal Materials, which supplies resin materials and dry-film photoresists, is set to invest CNY90.52 million (US$13.84 million) to build a coating production line at a plant in Suzhou, China, with the new capacity to become fully operational as ear.....»»
Fab fires and drought threaten to make chip shortages worse
Back-to-back incidents threaten to further strain already tight chip supplies. A significant portion of the Micron fab is bathed in yellow light to protect the light-sensitive coating on the wafers. Chips on the wafers are created using a.....»»
Scientists created edible films for food packaging
An international group of scientists from India and Russia has created edible food films for packaging fruits, vegetables, poultry, meat, and seafood. Films consist of natural ingredients, they are safe for health and the environment. In addition, fi.....»»
Preservation Effort Unearths Over 750 PlayStation 2 Game Prototypes
As VGC notes, the preservation group Hidden Palace has obtained 752 PS2 game prototypes and demos from collectors, shuttered developers and defunct media outlets as part of a Project Deluge initiative. Engadget reports: The mix includes prototypes of.....»»
Game preservation group puts more than 700 PlayStation 2 prototypes and unreleased demos online
The dump comes courtesy of Hidden Palace, the same folks that brought us the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 prototype in late 2019. This time around, they worked with a single person that was kind enough to let them look over and preserve each item in his coll.....»»
Curran Biotech’s new nanocoating could prevent indoor transmission of COVID-19
A new nanocoating from Curran Biotech could dramatically improve air filtration to prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors. Their Capture Coating technology acts as a supplement to any household or commercial HVAC system by bonding to the filter fiber.....»»
Paper without the microplastics: An economical and ecofriendly coating
Michigan State University's Muhammad Rabnawaz has created a new coating for paper packaging that's both economical and ecofriendly......»»
Edible holograms could someday decorate foods
Holograms are everywhere, from driver's licenses to credit cards to product packaging. And now, edible holograms could someday enhance foods. Researchers reporting in ACS Nano have developed a laser-based method to print nanostructured holograms on d.....»»
Brazil presents disputed nature conservation scheme for Amazon region
Following fierce criticism over its environmental and climate policies, the Brazilian government on Wednesday presented a controversial program for the preservation of nature reserves in the Amazon region......»»
An optical coating like no other
For more than a century, optical coatings have been used to better reflect certain wavelengths of light from lenses and other devices or, conversely, to better transmit certain wavelengths through them. For example, the coatings on tinted eyeglasses.....»»
How drain flies dodge a washout
The survival of pesky little flies in showers and other wet areas around the house, impervious to water droplets that may be larger than they are, comes down to more than quick reflexes. The insects have evolved a unique coating of hairs that allows.....»»
Darkened SpaceX Satellites Can Still Disrupt Astronomy, New Research Suggests
"SpaceX's attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not to the degree required by astronomers," reports Gizmodo: Starlink satellites with an anti-reflective coating are half as bright as the standard version, according.....»»
Lawmaker calls for preservation of riot evidence as apps removed, users banned
Several technology companies decided to remove apps or ban users to prevent the spread of violence, but will they preserve evidence to be used in prosecutions?.....»»
Disney"s decommissioned 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride has been recreated in VR
For those who don't know, Defunctland is a "non-profit, volunteer-run preservation/passion project." At its core, it's a YouTube series created by Kevin Perjurer intended to preserve and explore "pop culture's past.".....»»
Performance fiber with color-changing coating makes mechanical stress visible
High-performance fibers that have been exposed to high temperatures usually lose their mechanical properties undetected and, in the worst case, can tear precisely when lives depend on them. For example, safety ropes used by fire brigades or suspensio.....»»
Building safer medical devices with innovative protective nanoparticle coating
Every year, over a million people develop health care-acquired infections during their hospital stays. And around 100,000 of them die from those complications......»»
Green chemistry creates coatings from nature
Organic chemists from the University of Groningen and the Dutch multinational company AkzoNobel, a major global producer of paints and coatings, developed a process that allows them to turn biomass into a high-quality coating using light, oxygen and.....»»