Boston MA (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - A new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or even from the air. The key component is an electroche
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - Chemists at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt have discovered how electrodes can be improved in the future using an innovative process. The method could enable materials
Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - Climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is a most important issue for our society. Acceleration of global warming results in catastrophic heatwaves, wildfires, sto
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 - A new study coordinated by CU Boulder makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that have pushed the Earth towards a new g
Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, have for the first time demonstrated an organic battery. It is of a type known as a redox flow battery, with a large cap
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - In an entirely new approach to making lithium-ion batteries lighter, safer and more efficient, scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory h
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - In the search for solutions to ever-worsening environmental problems, such as the depletion of fossil fuels and climate change, many have turned to the potential of thermoelectric materials to gener
Turku, Finland (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - The great global challenges of our time, including climate change, energy security and scarcity of natural resources, promote a transition from the linear fossil-based economy to the sustainable bio
Manila (AFP) Oct 16, 2020 - The Philippines has lifted a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the disputed South China Sea, which the government said Friday could fast-track talks with Beijing on a joint energy project.
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 - While the ongoing Corona pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw an unprecedented decline in CO2 emissions - larger than during the financial cr
Colombo (AFP) Oct 15, 2020 - The captain of a fire-damaged supertanker that leaked fuel off the coast of Sri Lanka has been fined 12 million rupees ($65,000) for causing the spill and failing to inform officials of the environmental damage.
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 - Physicists from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Rochester have made a breakthrough in the long sought-after quest for a room-temperature superconductor, what they call the
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 - Powerful picosecond generators are in demand in various fields of experimental electrophysics to produce ultrashort electron beams and X-ray pulses in vacuum diodes and to form runaway electron flow
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 - Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking high-temperature superconductor technology (HTS) sparked a
Rome (AFP) Oct 14, 2020 - South Sudan's government and National Salvation Front (NAS) rebels agreed on Wednesday to a meeting between their military commanders, while falling short of committing to an existing ceasefire.
Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 - Materials scientists Sungwon Lee and Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) developed the fabrication process with colleagues in Korea. A ke
