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New AI Framework Aims to Improve Battery Metal Recovery

Researchers from the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center join the University of Southern California in a project announced today by the DOE to help secure the U.S. supply of critical minerals.

25 Jul 2026

Hutton to Coordinate New €6 Million Project to Improve Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Agriculture

The James Hutton Institute, Scotland’s leading interdisciplinary research institute for sustainable land, crop and nature management, has been tasked with coordinating a €5.94 million (£5.07 million) effort to improve the monitoring, reporting and verification of non-CO2 greenhouse gases from agriculture.

24 Jul 2026

Tracking a Flight Path to a Green Aviation Future

An Adelaide University-led study has mapped out a route to advance the commercial aviation industry towards a net-zero emissions future, powered by green hydrogen.

24 Jul 2026

Dirty Solar Panels Could be Costing UK Businesses Thousands

New performance data from commercial solar specialist Absolar suggests dirty solar panels could be costing UK businesses thousands of pounds in lost electricity generation every year. With routine cleaning, output could be increased by up to 16.6%.

24 Jul 2026

MIT optical couplers advance energy-efficient, high-bandwidth communications

The FUTUR-IC program combines optical couplers, sustainability tools, and workforce training to advance resource-efficient, petabit-scale data communications.

By Dr. Noopur Jain 23 Jul 2026

Wildlife Deaths 'Vanish' Within Days of Prescribed Burns

Scientists are calling for wildlife surveys to be conducted within hours of prescribed burns after new research revealed that evidence of animal deaths can disappear in less than two weeks, significantly underestimating the true toll of fire on Australia's wildlife.

21 Jul 2026

Low-Cost Innovation Boosts Green Hydrogen Production

RMIT researchers and international collaborators have demonstrated a new way to significantly increase green hydrogen production using low-cost materials, offering a potential pathway to cheaper clean fuel.

21 Jul 2026

Water-Cleaning Insects, Smart Sewage Batteries and Chemical-Busting Bubbles Among Finalists of £7.5 Million Water Discovery Challenge

Twenty projects have been named finalists of the Water Innovation Fund’s second Water Discovery Challenge, which aims to accelerate the development and adoption of innovations to support the water sector’s greatest challenges.

21 Jul 2026

Rising Salinity From Climate Change Reduces Microbial Diversity in Freshwater Ecosystems

As sea levels rise and saltwater seeps into freshwater, stressed aquatic populations may retain overall growth even as diversity declines, MIT scientists find.

20 Jul 2026

What is the Sweet Spot for Home Solar and Battery Systems?

For Australian households looking to reduce their electricity bills, finding the best balance between rooftop solar and battery storage can be a challenge.

17 Jul 2026

Solar Breakthrough Cuts Scarce Metal, Bringing Cheaper Clean Energy Closer to Market

An international team of researchers has built the first high-performance, commercially sized tandem solar cell that doesn't rely on the scarce and expensive metal, indium.

17 Jul 2026

OCEANZYME Investigates New Enzymatic Recycling Solutions for Marine Litter

Marine waste found in deep-sea environments shows a high degree of degradation.

From AIMPLAS 17 Jul 2026

Flowserve Completes Acquisition of Trillium Flow Technologies’ Valves Division

Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, has closed its all-cash acquisition of Trillium Flow Technologies' Valves Division for $490 million plus working capital adjustments.

From Flowserve Corporation 17 Jul 2026

Designing Power Systems Using Outdated Weather Data Invites Future Blackouts

Will a warming climate and changing weather patterns lead to more grid blackouts and other energy disruptions? Answering that question requires studying both regional climate forecasts and local energy systems, including emerging renewable generation, storage, transmission lines, and demand forecasts.

17 Jul 2026

Roadmap Paper Shows How Superconductors Can Decarbonize Transport Sector

Superconducting technologies have the potential to supercharge the decarbonization of transport, saving gigatons of emissions in the future, a landmark new paper suggests.

16 Jul 2026