Evanston, IL (SPX) Sep 30, 2011 - A year ago Northwestern University chemists published their recipe for a new class of nanostructures made of sugar, salt and alcohol. Now, the same team has discovered the edible compounds can effic
Ames IA (SPX) Sep 30, 2011 - Iowa State University's Robert C. Brown keeps a small vial of brown, sweet-smelling liquid on his office table. It looks like something you could pour on your pancakes, he said. In many res
Nicosia, Cyprus (UPI) Sep 30, 2011 - Israeli F-15 warplanes have reportedly buzzed a Turkish seismic ship exploring for natural gas off the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus amid a tense confrontation over the region's rich offshore natural gas reserves.
Chennai, India (SPX) Sep 30, 2011 - Leading renewable energy consultancy group, Natural Power, has deployed a dual-mode ZephIR 300 wind lidar with the Centre for Wind Energy Technology (CWET) in Chennai, India. The dual-mode Zep
Krakow, Poland (UPI) Sep 30, 2011 - Poland will veto any attempt by the European Commission to institute EU-wide rules regulating the shale gas sector, a government adviser said this week.
Washington (UPI) Sep 30, 2011 - Environmental and Alaskan native groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's decision to allow offshore oil drilling by Shell Oil in the Beaufort Sea near Alaska.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 29, 2011 - The pumping of crude oil along a pipeline connecting Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan has been suspended because of technical problems, energy officials said on Thursday.
Tehran (UPI) Sep 29, 2011 - Sanctions-battered Iran's crude oil production fell in August for a second consecutive month, underlining how the Islamic Republic's mature fields are steadily declining.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2011 - Researchers with the U.S Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified a potential new advanced biofuel that could replace today's standard fuel for diesel engines bu
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 29, 2011 - Engineers at Harvard have created a device that may make it easier to isolate and study tiny particles such as viruses. Their plasmonic nanotweezers, revealed this month in Nature Communications, us
Taipei (AFP) Sept 28, 2011 - Authorities in Taiwan said Wednesday they had changed more than 690,000 traffic lights throught the island in a project that will save enough electricity to power more than 60,000 homes.
Argonne, IL (SPX) Sep 28, 2011 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have patented a new, extremely stable, 4-volt redox shuttle molecule that provides overcharge protection for lithium-i
London (UPI) Sep 28, 2011 - British oil producer BP has introduced a fourth entrant in a competing series of proposed southern corridor natural gas pipelines from Azerbaijan to Europe.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2011 - Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, in smart phones, laptops, an array of other consumer electronics, and the newest electric cars. Good as they are, they could be much better, especially when it
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 28, 2011 - Scientists are taking the first steps to improve estimates of long-term wind speed changes for the fast-growing wind energy sector. The research is intended to identify the risks for generators in a
Jacksonville, FL (SPX) Sep 28, 2011 - Saft has inaugurated the world's most advanced automated lithium-ion battery factory, in Jacksonville, Florida. This high-volume, state-of-the-art production facility is dedicated to building advanc
