Topic: Michael Wang

Grassoline: Can we fuel cars with grass?

In 2006, the United States consumed an average of almost 20.6 million barrels of petroleum per day, the equivalent of more than 865 million gallons of o?il . A fast-growing grass known as switchgrass can be found around the United States ...

OPEN FRONTIERS

OPEN FRONTIERS Stocks in emerging Europe, the Middle East, and Africa will rise 31% by the end of 2010 as cheap valuations, fast profit growth, and higher oil prices draw investors, according to a Dec. 3 Morgan Stanley report. Michael Wang, the ...
Minimally invasive surgery for the excruciating back pain that can be caused by sciatica didn't work as well as the conventional procedure in a Dutch study.. The results of the Dutch study were no surprise to Dr. Todd J. Albert, director ...
Among patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, race is associated with chances of receiving chemotherapy but is not associated with survival, according to research published online Oct. 20 in Cancer.. Michael Wang, M.D., of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ...

Corn Gives You Gas

Since you're on an energy kick these days, I thought I would ask you: But Nobel-winning chemist Paul Crutzen argued earlier this year that any such reduction is more than canceled out by emissions from the fertilizer used to grow the ...
A modified version of so-called $100 laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte for kids in Africa, Asia and Latin America, will get sold in developed nations too, according to an article in the Financial Times.. ??We will definitely at the right time launch ...