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"Das Erfolg versprechende Regensburger Gerät setzt dagegen darauf, die Insekten mit einer Imitation des menschlichen Geruchs anzulocken und mit einem Ventilator einzusaugen. "Wir ahmen mit der Falle den Menschen nach", erklärt der Biologe Martin Geier. Er hat den Mückensauger in Form eines unscheinbaren Stoff-Zylinders zusammen mit Kollegen in den vergangenen drei Jahren entwickelt und getestet... Für ihre Entwicklung wurden die Regensburger Forscher bereits mit einem internationalen Preis der Weltbank und der "Bill und Melinda Gates Stiftung" geehrt. Unter 2.900 eingereichten Projekten schaffte es die Mückenfalle unter die 22 Gewinner. "Das ist für uns ein Durchbruch, weil unser Ansatz bei dem Wettbewerb von vielen Fachleuten bestätigt und als realistisch eingestuft wurde", sagt Geier. "

"We often think that the limiting factors to doing science are intellectual or technological. There are many unsolved scientific problems that we know how to answer. We aren't waiting for any conceptual breakthroughs or new technologies. We're waiting for people. We need "hands at the bench" to put in the time to collect the data. The instabilities of salary is a major limiting factor for science and is probably a big reason a lot of them get out of science: they don't see a way to pay the bills. Creating permanent, stable positions for scientists would release a lot of scientific research."

Peak Oil is the point at which petroleum production reaches its greatest rate just before going into perpetual decline. In "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate," a new video series from The Nation and On The Earth productions, radio host Thom Hartmann explains that the world will reach peak oil within the next year if it hasn't already. As a nation, the United States reached peak oil in 1974, after which it became a net oil importer. Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and the other scientists, researchers and writers interviewed throughout "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" describe the diminishing returns our world can expect as it deals with the consequences of peak oil even as it continues to pretend it doesn't exist. These experts predict substantially increased transportation costs, decreased industrial production, unemployment, hunger and social chaos as the supplies of the  fuels on which we rely dwindle and eventually disappear. Chomsky urges us to anticipate the official response to peak oil based on how corporations, news organizations and other institutions have responded to global warming: obfuscation, spin and denial. James Howard Kunstler says that we cannot survive peak oil unless we "come up with a consensus about reality that is consistent with the way things really are." This documentary series hopes to help build that consensus. Click here to watch the introductory video, and check back here for new videos each Wednesday.

"In2Care is a private limited company registered and based in the Netherlands. Founded and privately owned by three leading entomologists, a serial entrepreneur and a chief commercial officer, In2Care has more than 30 years of combined research experience in vector control. Our core expertise lies in the translation of scientific knowledge into novel insect control products. We offer low-cost, proven, primarily biological solutions to combat disease-carrying mosquitoes"

Details WhaTech Channel: Materials & Chemicals Research Reports ACCESS REPORT : United States Siliconized Film Industry Report 2015 Published on Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:32 Submitted by Vivian Dsena WhaTech Agency News from: Wise Guy Reports - Maket Research Development policies and plans are discussed as well as manufacturing processes and Bill of Materials cost structures are also analyzed.

Billed as "the thinnest of all possible materials in the universe," graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like "molecular chicken wire."