London (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 - Banks aiding a stock market float for Saudi oil giant Aramco will be devoid of all sincerity regarding environmental and social concerns, green and rights groups jointly said Thursday.
Durham NC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 - Electrical engineers at Duke University have harnessed the power of machine learning to design dielectric (non-metal) metamaterials that absorb and emit specific frequencies of terahertz radiation.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 - The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Fujitsu Limited, and the Tokyo Metropolitan University announced that they developed a highly sensitive rectifying element in the form of a nanowire ba
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 - Hydrogen-containing substances are important for many industries, but scientists have struggled to obtain detailed images to understand the element's behavior. In Review of Scientific Instruments, f
Berlin (AFP) Oct 16, 2019 - Germany said Wednesday it had called a special meeting of international partners this week to pressure Royal Dutch Shell to remove old rigs containing crude oil in the North Sea.
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 - Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas f
Richland WA (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 - Scientists have uncovered a root cause of the growth of needle-like structures--known as dendrites and whiskers--that plague lithium batteries, sometimes causing a short circuit, failure, or even a
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 15, 2019 - A huge oil spill off Brazil's northeastern coast may have involved a ghost ship carrying Venezuelan oil in breach of US sanctions, an expert close to the probe into the disaster said Tuesday.
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - Lithium-carbon dioxide batteries are attractive energy storage systems because they have a specific energy density that is more than seven times greater than commonly used lithium-ion batteries. How
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - South Australia is already a world leader in wind, solar and battery storage to the point where excess renewable energy is often shed during peak production periods. The South Australian Gover
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - Superconductivity has fascinated scientists for many years since it offers the potential to revolutionize current technologies. Materials only become superconductors - meaning that electrons can tra
Mumbai (AFP) Oct 14, 2019 - Total has agreed to buy a 37.4 percent stake in India's Adani Gas, the two firms said Monday, with the French giant spending $600 million to expand its access to the energy-hungry country.
Bochum, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - An international research team has used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into valuable raw materials. Scientists at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in Germany and the University of New South Wales in
London (AFP) Oct 14, 2019 - Greenpeace campaigners have boarded two Royal Dutch Shell oil platforms in a protest against leaving parts of old rigs in the North Sea, the environmental group said Monday.
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - Researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say they have found the first, long-sought proof that a decades-old scientific model of materia
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 - The wind is always blowing somewhere, but deciding where to locate a wind farm is a bit more complicated than holding up a wet finger. Now a team of Penn State researchers have a model that can loca
