Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 - Batteries power most of our devices, and even some cars. But researchers now report in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces a step toward running electronic devices in homes and offices on the light
Arnhem, The Netherlands (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 - Hydrogen produced from renewable energy will become an economic energy carrier to complement electricity and accelerate the decarbonization of industrial feedstock and heat, as well as providing lon
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 - A research team of experts in atomic physics, nuclear fusion science, and astronomy succeeded in computing millions of highly accurate atomic data of neodymium ions in the Japan-Lithuania internatio
Tallahassee FL (The Conversation) Mar 13, 2019 - Like generals planning for the last war, oil company managers and government inspectors tend to believe that because they survived the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, they are ready for all con
Paris (ESA) Mar 13, 2019 - Engineers descended into bunkers to test space batteries to destruction - through overheating, overcharging, short circuits and even by shooting them with bullets. The three-year test campaign is he
Caracas (AFP) March 13, 2019 - China on Wednesday offered to help Venezuela bring its collapsing power grid back online as President Nicolas Maduro sought to stave off rising public anger that is bolstering his US-backed rival Juan Guaido.
Hong Kong (AFP) March 12, 2019 - An oil tanker and a fishing boat collided Tuesday morning off Hong Kong's Lamma Island, police said, sinking the fishing vessel.
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - A new tungsten-based alloy developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory can withstand unprecedented amounts of radiation without damage. Essential for extreme irradiation environments such as the int
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 11, 2019 - Mexican state oil company Pemex, which has recently seen a rating downgrade, on Thursday signed an accord with Japan's investment agency with the expectation it may result in needed new funds.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - Hydrogen is a highly attractive, but also highly explosive energy carrier, which requires safe, lightweight and cheap storage as well as transportation systems. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 - Materials known as Mott insulators are odd things. Under normal electron band theory they ought to conduct electricity, but they do not, due to interactions among their electrons. But now, sci
Caracas (AFP) March 8, 2019 - Venezuela's government struggled to cope Friday with a massive electricity blackout that paralyzed much of the country as President Nicolas Maduro blamed the chaos on US sabotage.
Oslo (AFP) March 8, 2019 - Norway will announce on Friday whether its sovereign wealth fund, which is the world's biggest and has been fuelled by petrodollars, will divest its oil and gas holdings in a decision keenly awaited by climate activists.
Madison WI (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 - With a few genetic tweaks, a type of soil bacteria with an appetite for hydrocarbons shows promise as a biological factory for converting a renewable - but frustratingly untapped - bounty into a rep
Alode-Eleme, Nigeria (AFP) March 8, 2019 - Young men in the Ogoniland area of southern Nigeria watch excitedly as engineers excavate heaps of polluted soil for treatment.
Sydney (AFP) March 8, 2019 - Australia expressed alarm Friday at the slow response from firms linked to a grounded cargo ship that has for weeks been leaking oil into a World Heritage-listed coral atoll in the Solomon Islands.
