Hydrogen power
If mobile phones, laptops and cars are ever routinely powered by hydrogen, the fuel could be stored in highly porous “nanocubes”. As little as 2 grams of the metallo-organic material that the cubes are made of has an internal surface area as big as a football pitch, says its developer, the German chemical company BASF.
Blocking BSE
The prion proteins that spread BSE in animal feed can be destroyed in 30 minutes by an enzyme extracted from actinomycete bacteria, say Japanese biochemists. Tatsuzo Oka of Kagoshima University says the enzyme could be used to sterilise animal feed to…
