United Nations, United States (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 - Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a US resolution in the UN Security Council on addressing the crisis in Venezuela, while a rival draft put forward by Moscow failed to win enough votes.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 - A global battery consortium charged with advancing lead battery technology has re-launched as it prepares to unveil a raft of new research designed to take the technology to the next level. Th
Cayenne (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 - French oil giant Total has halted an offshore oil exploration project in French Guiana after months of drilling produced no results.
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 - Researchers have used liquid metals to turn carbon dioxide back into solid coal, in a world-first breakthrough that could transform our approach to carbon capture and storage. The research tea
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 - Hydrogen production based on wind power can already be commercially viable today. Until now, it was generally assumed that this environmentally friendly power-to-gas technology could not be implemen
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 - Three natural gas-to-methanol plants are set to come online by 2020, increasing by 45 percent the United States capacity to produce the alternative fuel. The fuel, used to power vehicles in Ch
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 - The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has entered into a deal with institutional investors KKR and Black Rock to lease pipelines under which it will receive $4 billion up front. The agreement forms a
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 - Cells form the cornerstone of life, and Lockheed Martin is researching ways to create the building blocks of novel materials. In a new cooperative agreement with the Army Research Laboratory, Lockhe
Caracas (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 - The more than 300 soldiers to have deserted Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro since Saturday may be only a drop in the ocean but little by little the foundations of the socialist regime are coming apart, analysts say.
London (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 - British police arrested nine environmental activists who tried to disrupt an international conference of oil and gas bigwigs in London by gluing themselves to the venue doors on Wednesday.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 - U.S. gasoline prices saw their biggest weekly gain so far this year, and drivers' fuel spending likely won't ease any time soon as refiners start preparing for the warmer weather season, analysts sa
Norwich UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 - Efforts to cut emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and tackle climate change in developed economies are beginning to pay off according to research led by the Tyndall Centre at the University of East A
Wuzhen, China (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 - The Chinese and Russian foreign ministers voiced their opposition to military action in Venezuela on Wednesday, as President Nicolas Maduro faces increasing pressure from the United States to step down.
Cúcuta, Colombia (AFP) Feb 26, 2019 - A total of 326 members of Venezuela's armed forces have deserted embattled President Nicolas Maduro and crossed the border into Colombia since Saturday, Bogota's migration service said Tuesday.
Austin TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 - Unraveling the mystery of superconductivity at high temperatures, specifically in copper oxide materials, remains one of the most puzzling challenges in modern solid-state physics. But an internatio
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 - Why does it always have to be so cold? We now know of a whole range of materials that - under certain conditions - conduct electrical current entirely without resistance. We call this phenomenon sup
