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New Tools Illustrate a Technique for Large-Scale Storage of Renewable Energy

A new approach based on the principles of NMR and MRI has facilitated researches to not only notice the way next-generation batteries function for major energy storage, but also on how they fail.

3 Mar 2020

Metrohm USA Announces 8th Annual Young Chemist Award Winner

Metrohm USA is pleased to announce the winner of its 2020 Young Chemist Award, Dr. Pawan Jolly.

From Metrohm USA Inc. 3 Mar 2020

Why the Wettest February on Record is Causing Climate Concerns to Grow

A total of three extreme rainfall events hit the UK in the second month of the year, causing experts and the general population to feel raising concern over the increasingly severe impacts of climate change.

By Sarah Moore 3 Mar 2020

3 Billion Tons Less CO2 with Photonics

Photonics technologies can contribute to 3 billion tons less carbon dioxide per year by 2030.

3 Mar 2020

Antarctic Floating Ice Walls Protect Against Warmer Seas

A recent study published in the journal Nature has explored the physics behind the warming ocean currents around the Antarctic coast, finding floating ice walls offer some protection to the ice sheet by limiting the amount of ocean heat that reaches the ice.

3 Mar 2020

Clean Biofuel Produced Using Genetic Engineering, Eco-Friendly Solvents

Biofuel is generally considered as a clean fuel. However, its major disadvantage is that it is synthesized from food sources.

2 Mar 2020

Policy Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change by Reducing Global Methane Emissions

In the climate debate, the methane gas merits considerable attention as it contributes approximately half of the human-induced global warming in the short-term.

2 Mar 2020

Bringing the Green Revolution to Electronics

Researchers are investigating how to make electronic components from eco-friendly, biodegradable materials to help address a growing public health and environmental problem: around 50 million tonnes of electronic waste are produced every year.

29 Feb 2020

Breakthrough: Thin-Film Solar Cells Generate as Much Energy as Traditional Solar Cells for the First Time

Scientists from Hasselt University, imec, VITO and international partners within the PERCISTAND consortium have become the first to achieve an energy efficiency of 25 percent with a thin-film solar cell.

29 Feb 2020

Scientists Examine the Effect of Palm-Oil Biodiesel on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Despite the rising controversy over the sustainability of vegetable oil biofuels, these products are increasingly being utilized as a substitute for fossil fuels.

28 Feb 2020

Experts Outline Steps to Achieve Global Carbon Neutrality in the Future

How can the world cut its greenhouse gas emissions in time to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global climate change? It won't be easy, but there are reasons to be optimistic that the problems can still be solved if the right kind of significant actions are taken within the next few years, according to panelists at the latest MIT symposium on climate change.

28 Feb 2020

New, Efficient Way to Generate Hydrogen from Organic Waste Solution

In the current scenario of pollution, climate change, and diminishing resources, hydrogen is one fuel that could dramatically change the course in the energy sector.

27 Feb 2020

Novel Method Improves Production of Chemicals from Biomass

A team of researchers, which included doctoral student FUJIWARA Ryosuke, Associate Professor TANAKA Tsutomu (both from the Graduate School of Engineering of Kobe University) and Research Scientist NODA Shuhei (from RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science), has successfully improved the production of target chemicals from biomass.

26 Feb 2020

Study Examines Effect of Climate Change on Tibetan Plateau’s Seeds

Seeds provide a degree of resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change in ecosystems worldwide.

26 Feb 2020

Scientists Develop Enzyme Produced from Agricultural Waste for Use as Laundry Detergent

An international team of researchers has developed an enzyme produced from agricultural waste that could be used as an important additive in laundry detergents.

26 Feb 2020