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
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
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
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.
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.
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 (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
Oslo (AFP) March 8, 2019 - Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest thanks to petrodollars, will sell off stakes in oil and gas exploration and production companies to reduce its exposure to black gold, the government said Friday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Riverside CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 - Electronic devices such as transistors are getting smaller and will soon hit the limits of conventional performance based on electrical currents. Devices based on magnonic currents - quasi-par
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
