As you've no doubt noticed, there's a worryingly large amount of plastic pollution, and scientists are working hard to find ways to use plastic without causing so much long-term damage to the environment around us. A new study outlines the use of a specially created enzyme variant that vastly reduces the
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The world is transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs) at a rate never seen before. That also means companies are racing to secure and strengthen their positions in the battery supply chain, from mineral extraction and processing to battery and EV manufacturing. In what has been dubbed as the “battery arms
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A new form of 3D printing that can create 3D objects within a stationary volume of resin has been developed by Stanford University researchers. The printed object is fully supported by the thick resin, removing the need for the support structures typically required for creating complex designs with more standard printing
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Polymerisation is a process by which small atoms called monomers are joined together, usually to form long, spaghetti-like chains called polymers. These can then be shaped into three-dimensional objects such as water bottles, by means of injection moulding. The researchers, however, have succeeded in creating a material that self-assembles instead into two-dimensional
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The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo has said that the federal government hopes to generate about N1.5 billion in 2022 from the activities of the Weights and Measures Department of the ministry. Legal metrology is a part of metrology, which treats units of weighment and measurement and
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During the past 20 years, deep learning has come to dominate artificial intelligence research and applications through a series of useful commercial applications. But underneath the dazzle are some deep-rooted problems that threaten the technology’s ascension. The inability of a typical deep learning program to perform well on more than one
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In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities used a customized printer to fully 3D print a flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The discovery could result in low-cost OLED displays in the future that could be widely produced using 3D printers by anyone at
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Solid, metal antennae have been the standard in a wide range of technologies for decades, including a wide variety of radio communications and scanning such as radar. However, research into the concept of liquid antennae was discussed in the 1990s. A liquid antenna would comprise a lightweight and perhaps collapsible
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Gilbert Ekugbe highlights the titanic challenge the SON has had to contend with as it carries out its constitutional mandate of taming the malevolent merchants of fake and expired tyres as well as other substandard products It was a ghoulish expedition, a near-death experience. The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) enforcement
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Coleman Wires and Cables, West Africa’s largest cable manufacturer, has signed N50 billion bond with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its Managing Director, Mr George Onafowokan, at the signing ceremony held in Lagos , said that the bond was fundamental to giving an option of the company’s portfolio of funding. “When we
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