The Hague (AFP) Nov 16, 2021 - The Netherlands was shaken Tuesday by one of the strongest earthquakes yet near Europe's largest gas field, which is due to close in 2022 due to seismic activity caused by gas extraction.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - The U.S. Fusion Outreach Team, a grassroots organization in the fusion community focused on reducing barriers to outreach efforts, has launched a new centralized website to engage an expanding workf
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - The U.S. scientific community is currently conceptualizing the first nuclear fusion power plants, which will revolutionize energy production. Like the sun and stars, a fusion power plant will produc
Princeton NJ (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - In controlled nuclear fusion, heavy isotopes of hydrogen fuse into helium, releasing a huge amount of energy in the process. A large portion of the energy released by a laboratory fusion reaction go
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - Spacecraft have long used heat shields for protection during entry into planetary atmospheres. Future missions to the outer solar system will need more sophisticated materials than currently exist.
Frankfurt (AFP) Nov 15, 2021 - German energy company RWE said it would step up its investment in renewable energy on Monday, as the country's potential new government plans an earlier exit from coal.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - The march towards fusion energy gain, required for commercial fusion energy, is not always visible. Progress occurs in fits and starts through experiments in national laboratories, universities, and
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Nov 15, 2021 - The UAE, one of the world's top crude exporters, said a recent UN climate summit in Glasgow was a success but that the world needs to keep investing billions in oil and gas.
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - For decades, scientists have been working to harness clean, renewable fusion energy, which occurs naturally in stars like our sun. Using strong magnetic fields to confine hot plasmas within a donut-
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a record yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) from fusion reactions was achieved in the laboratory for the first time during an experiment at
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 15, 2021 - Ministers of the European Union reached a deal on Wednesday to pass new climate legislation aimed at reducing methane emissions, while imposing new import restrictions on foreign energy suppliers, including the United States.
College Park MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - Charged particle accelerators have been a central tool of basic physics research for almost a hundred years, perhaps most famously as atom smashers for understanding the elementary constituents of
Princeton NJ (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory have uncovered a key process behind a major challenge called thermal quen
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 15, 2021 - Future fusion reactors have a conundrum: maintain a plasma core that is hotter than the surface of the sun without melting the walls that contain the plasma. Fusion scientists refer to this challeng
Glasgow (AFP) Nov 14, 2021 - UN climate change summit host Boris Johnson, on Sunday hailed a last-ditch agreement to tackle global warming but said he was disappointed it did not go further on tackling use of high-polluting coal.
Glasgow (AFP) Nov 13, 2021 - Nearly 200 nations came together Saturday on a global deal to combat climate change after two weeks of painful negotiation, but fell short of what science says is needed to contain dangerous temperature rises.
