Atlanta, GA (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - A growing interest in thermoelectric materials - which convert waste heat to electricity - and pressure to improve heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to impr
San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new way to control the transport of electrical currents through high-temperature superconductors - materials discovered nearly 30 years ago that lose all
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - The latest research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that LEDs made from nanowires will use less energy and provide better light. The researchers studied nanowires using X-ray microscopy and with
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - Researchers from the University of Houston have devised a new formula for calculating the maximum efficiency of thermoelectric materials, the first new formula in more than a half-century, designed
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - Researchers from the University of Cambridge, together with French collaborators based in Toulouse, have developed a new method to see inside battery-like devices known as supercapacitors at the ato
Evanston IL (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) and environmentally friendly often do not appear in the same sentence together. But as the United States teeters on the precipice of a shale gas boom, Northwes
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - Rotation is key to the performance of salad spinners, toy tops, and centrifuges, but recent research suggests a way to harness rotation for the future of mankind's energy supply. In papers published
Milan, Italy (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - Prysmian Group has announced the successful commissioning of the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore grid connection project HelWin2 realised off the North Sea coast of Germany in a contract
Davis CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - Living cells can make a vast range of products for us, but they don't always do it in the most straightforward or efficient way. Shota Atsumi, a chemistry professor at UC Davis, aims to address that
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - The United States Department of Defense (DOD) is widely reported to be the single largest consumer of petroleum in the world, spending billions of dollars on fuel every year. While the DOD provides
Champaign IL (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 - Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have, for the first time, uncovered the complex interdependence and orchestration of metabolic reactions, gene regulation, and environ
Adama, Ethiopia (AFP) June 28, 2015 - The wind blows hard over Adama, a range of rocky hills in Ethiopia's highlands that provide the perfect location for one of the continent's largest wind farms.
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Jun 26, 2015 - An industry group in the Canadian oil sands sector said it was committed to playing a greater role in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Limerick, Ireland (UPI) Jun 26, 2015 - Irish explorer Circle Oil, which focuses on North African reserves, said gas was flowing from its first shale well drilled into a basin in Morocco.
Moscow (UPI) Jun 26, 2015 - New corridors along the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea to European markets should be in service by 2019, Russia's Gazprom said.
New York (UPI) Jun 26, 2015 - Anticipation over the pending expiration of a Greek bailout package sent crude oil prices again into negative territory in early Friday trading.
