Raleigh NC (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 - An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in a solid can convert heat to energy even in a paramagnetic material - where spins weren't thought to cor
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 - Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in British Columbia. Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a hydrogen supply chain model that can enable t
Washington (UPI) Sep 20, 2019 - Israeli fighter planes returned home Friday after their first deployment to Britain for air exercises with planes of the United States and European countries.
Stanford CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2019 - One way to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is now at its highest point in 800,000 years, would be to capture the potent greenhouse gas from the smokestacks of factories a
Washington (UPI) Sep 13, 2019 - Engineers have developed a thermoelectric device that works in the dark of night, harnessing the cold of space and turning it into electricity to power an LED light. The affordable technology works without any heat inputs.
Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2019 - As detailed in a study, the participants in Stanford University's Mobile Monitoring Challenge have developed a variety of technologies for finding natural gas leaks.
Kobe, Japan (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 - A more environmentally-friendly and sustainable method of producing the useful chemical 1,2,4-butanetriol has been discovered. The Kobe University team were the first in the world to utilize a metho
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 - Chinese and Rutgers scientists have discovered how aquatic plants cope with water pollution, a major ecological question that could help boost their use in wastewater treatment, biofuels, antibiotic
Tempe AZ (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 - Securing enough energy to meet human needs is one of the greatest challenges society has ever faced. Previously reliable sources - oil, gas and coal - are degrading air quality, devastating land and
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 - A common greenhouse gas could be repurposed in an efficient and environmentally friendly way with an electrolyzer that uses renewable electricity to produce pure liquid fuels. The catalytic re
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 - A new understanding of how an important methane-producing microorganism creates methane and carbon dioxide could eventually allow researchers to manipulate how much of these important greenhouse gas
Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2019 - Engineers at Rice University in Texas have developed a catalytic reactor that can convert CO2 into high concentrations of pure formic acid, which can be used as a liquid fuel.
New York NY (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 - Light and sound waves are at the basis of energy and signal transport and fundamental to some of our most basic technologies - from cell phones to engines. Scientists, however, have yet to devise a
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 - Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have made the first nickel oxide material that shows clear sig
Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2019 - The US Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday plans to roll back regulations that limit leaks of potent greenhouse gas methane from pipelines and wells, even as some industry players opposed the move.
Dubai (AFP) Aug 28, 2019 - An abandoned oil tanker anchored off war-torn Yemen that is degrading along with its cargo could explode and cause an environmental disaster, experts said Wednesday as UN inspectors prepared to visit.
