Lambres-Lez-Douai, France (AFP) June 28, 2021 - President Emmanuel Macron visited northern France on Monday to applaud plans for a Chinese-owned battery factory that will supply the automaker Renault as Europe steps up its shift toward electric vehicles.
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 28, 2021 - We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering. Much as large, expens
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 25, 2021 - Researchers at MIT said Friday that they have developed a way to expand potential sources of biofuels to include straw and woody plants that, historically, proved challenging to effectively process.
Hong Kong (AFP) June 25, 2021 - Equities and oil prices rose again Friday, building on the week's global rally, after US lawmakers and the White House agreed a rare bipartisan deal on infrastructure that will provide another huge cash injection into the world's top economy.
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 25, 2021 - I'm going back. It's almost like a cycle in your life, muses physicist Abhay Ram. Ram, a principal research scientist at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at MIT, is returning to a field
Cambridge UK (SPX) Jun 24, 2021 - Researchers have developed a simple lab-based technique that allows them to look inside lithium-ion batteries and follow lithium ions moving in real time as the batteries charge and discharge, somet
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 24, 2021 - What do pipes and anchors have to do with storing energy? More than you might think! A new IIASA-led study explored the potential of a lesser known, but promising sustainable energy storage system c
Mumbai (AFP) June 24, 2021 - Indian oil-to-telecom giant Reliance Industries unveiled plans Thursday to invest $10 billion in renewable energy over the next three years as Asia's third-largest economy struggles to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.
Beijing (AFP) June 24, 2021 - When a prefecture in northwestern China's Xinjiang region ordered a halt on cryptocurrency mining projects this month, Chris Zhu scrambled to move clients' machines southward, spending over a week to reassemble in Sichuan.
Jena, Germany (SPX) Jun 23, 2021 - The way in which a compound inspired by nature produces hydrogen has now been described in detail for the first time by an international research team from the University of Jena, Germany and the Un
Newark DE (SPX) Jun 23, 2021 - In the quest to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere and curb climate change, University of Delaware researchers are turning to an interesting ally: bacteria that consume biomass sugars and C
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 23, 2021 - Despite an improvement in plastic recycling in recent years, landfill is a growing issue. Soft plastics like cling wrap and plastic bags are a major contributor to the problem, with 94 percent going
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 23, 2021 - As you drive down the highway, you may notice an increasing number of hybrid and electric vehicles. Alternative energy automobiles are on the rise contributing to the global effort to reduce carbon
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 23, 2021 - A single measurement result is not a proof - this has been shown again and again in science. We can only really rely on a research result when it has been measured several times, preferably by diffe
Paris (AFP) June 23, 2021 - The European Banking Authority called Wednesday upon banks to better take into account climate-related risks when setting their business goals and strategies.
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2021 - Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to reopen their respective embassies in a major reset to diplomatic relations following a yearslong rift that began after Doha's government was accused of sponsoring terrorism in 2017.
