Important Innovations Collection

D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF   By Journalists Edward  Kane & Marya nne Kane THANKS TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOR SETTING US STRAIGHT ON CANNED WINE                                                                                     Source:  Stock Canned soda, canned beer...canned wine?  Not so fast!  Here's what we know: The popularity of canned wine has increased in recent years, but there's one problem:  the aroma of rotten eggs Cornell to the rescue and a pleasant-smelling canned wine future Sulfites in wine can react with aluminum creating a rotten egg smell Use of ultrathin liners can prevent the exposure of sulfites to aluminum thus preventing the fumes Timing is important: canned wine is intended to ...

Mysterious Radio Signal from Exoplanet                    Source: Cornell University - Bootes & Magnetic Field A First From Space This is an extraordinary scientific finding from space.  You might characterize it as an exoplanet talking to Earth.  A research team of scientists led by researcher Jake Turner at Cornell University has detected a mysterious radio signal from an exoplanet deep within space.  The radio "message" comes from the constellation Tau Bootes.  It is the first radio signal ever discovered from one of the 4,500 exoplanets documented by astronomers, trillions of miles above the Earth.  Their work has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The Search For Life in Space Is this a message from an alien world?  Well, researchers think the radio signals may provide a new way to explore the possibilities that life does exist outside of the Earth i...