Ottawa (AFP) Oct 18, 2019 - Teen activist Greta Thunberg rallied with climate change protesters in Canada's oil-rich province of Albert on Friday, as oil workers counter-protested by honking the horns of their big rigs.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 - For the first time researchers successfully used laser pulses to excite an iron-based compound into a superconducting state. This means it conducted electricity without resistance. The iron compound
New York (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 - Charges that Exxon Mobil misled investors on the financial risks of climate change will be heard in court this month after a New York judge gave the green light for a trial.
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 - Today's electronics industry is increasingly focusing on computers or smartphones with screens that can be folded or rolled. Smart clothing items make use of wearable micro-devices or sensors to mon
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.
Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 - Researchers have modelled the fluid dynamics of multi-rotor wind turbines, and how they interact in wind farms. The research demonstrates a clear advantage for a turbine model with four rotors.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
