Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 - The production of clean hydrogen through water splitting has long been limited by the slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction, making it inefficient and expensive. However, researchers have d
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2024 - Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) have successfully demonstrated the durability of oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) FeCrAl alloys under conditions mimicking those in f
Paris (AFP) Nov 26, 2024 - The tough-fought finance deal at UN climate negotiations was imperfect, the Azerbaijan COP29 leadership has admitted, seeking to blame richer countries for an outcome slammed by poorer nations as insulting.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 - Advancing the promise of renewable energy sources like solar and wind, University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers have designed a water-soluble chemical additive to improve bromide-based aqueous
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 25, 2024 - South Korea has concluded its delivery of four vacuum vessel sectors for the ITER fusion reactor, marking a major milestone in the international project underway in Cadarache, France. These componen
Baku (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 - The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low.
Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 - US President Joe Biden praised the COP29 deal Saturday as a significant step to fighting global warming, and pledged continued action by America despite his incoming successor Donald Trump's climate skepticism.
Paris (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 - The failure of UN climate negotiations to double down on a global pledge to move away from planet-heating fossil fuels on Sunday was decried by experts as a worrying setback to global progress on curbing warming.
Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 - Amid the inexorable shift toward more electric vehicles, oil and gas producers are looking increasingly to plastics to help keep them afloat, even if that sector faces challenges of its own.
Baku (AFP) Nov 24, 2024 - Rich countries' promise of $300 billion a year in climate finance brought fury at talks in Baku from poor nations that found it too paltry, but it also shows a shift in global political realities.
Baku (AFP) Nov 23, 2024 - The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low.
Moscow (AFP) Nov 22, 2024 - The Russian ruble slumped on Friday to its lowest level against the US dollar since March 2022, a day after Moscow fired a hypersonic missile on Ukraine and Washington sanctioned a key Russian bank.
Baku (AFP) Nov 22, 2024 - A new draft deal at UN climate talks Friday proposes rich nations commit $250 billion a year to help poorer nations combat global warming in a bid to break the deadlocked negotiations.
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 - Researchers at Rice University have found a new way to improve a key element of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems, which convert heat into electricity via light. Using an unconventional approach insp
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 22, 2024 - Lithium-ion batteries are the workhorses of home electronics and are powering an electric revolution in transportation. But they are not suitable for every application. A key drawback is their
Seoul (AFP) Nov 22, 2024 - Russia provided North Korea with oil, anti-air missiles and economic help in exchange for troops to support Moscow's war on Ukraine, government officials and a research group said Friday.
