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  Warwick UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 New research from the University of Warwick generates fresh insight into how a raindrop or spilt coffee splashes. Dr James Sprittles from the Mathematics Institute has created a new theory to explain exactly what happens - in the tiny space between a drop of water and a surface - to cause a splash. When a drop of water falls, it is prevented from spreading smoothly across a surface by a microscopically thin layer of air that it can't push aside - so instead of wetting the surface, parts of the liq ... read more |
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Unexpected, star-spangled find may lead to advanced electronicsDallas TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, en ... more  
Non-toxic material that generates electricity through hot and coldSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Thanks to the discovery of a new material by University of Utah engineers, jewelry such as a ring and your body heat could generate enough electricity to power a body sensor, or a cooking pan could ... more  
'Tree-on-a-chip' passively pumps water for daysBoston MA (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature's hydraulic pumps. They are constantly pulling water up from their roots to the topmost leaves, and pumping sugars pr ... more 
TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageingGraz, Austria (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the main cause of ageing in cells. To counter this, nature uses an enzyme called superoxide dismutase ... more |
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Transparent ceramics make super-hard windowsHamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Scientists have synthesised the first transparent sample of a popular industrial ceramic at DESY. The result is a super-hard window made of cubic silicon nitride that can potentially be used under e ... more  
New solar energy plant to be installed on BarbudaLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The government of Antigua and Barbuda (GOAB) further strives toward the realisation of generating 20 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy resources by the year 2020. The installation of ... more  
Study IDs link between sugar signaling and regulation of oil production in plantsUpton NY (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Even plants have to live on an energy budget. While they're known for converting solar energy into chemical energy in the form of sugars, plants have sophisticated biochemical mechanisms for regulat ... more 
Nanotube film may resolve longevity problem of challenger solar cellsEspoo, Finland (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Five years ago, the world started to talk about third-generation solar cells that challenged the traditional silicon cells with a cheaper and simpler manufacturing process that used less energy. Met ... more 
'Flying saucer' quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasersToronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Fresh insights into living cells, brighter video projectors and more accurate medical tests are just three of the innovations that could result from a new way of fabricating lasers. The new me ... more 
How fullerite becomes harder than diamondMoscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Physicists have simulated the structure of a new material based on fullerite and single crystal diamond to show how this material can obtain ultrahigh hardness. This discovery allows the estimations ... more |
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New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasmaPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Like a potter shaping clay as it spins on a wheel, physicists use magnetic fields and powerful particle beams to control and shape the plasma as it twists and turns through a fusion device. Now a ph ... more  
Scientists created nanopowders for the synthesis of new aluminum alloysKrasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The project received support from the Regional Science Foundation and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the competition for oriented interdisciplinary research in 2016. The results of the ... more 
Light-controlled gearbox for nanomachinesParis, France (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Rewarded with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016, nanomachines provide mechanical work on the smallest of scales. Yet at such small dimensions, molecular motors can complete this work in only one di ... more  
Unforeseen impacts of the fair trade movementNewark DE (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Fair trade certified coffee is the kind of phrase that sounds good on a Whole Foods shelf, the type of marketing that merges first world affluence with third world resource. For the average consumer ... more |
  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017 
Through the use of more natural gas and renewables, the United States and China, the lead world economies, helped keep global emissions flat, the IEA said.
The International Energy Agency reported Friday that global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, were flat in 2016 for the third year in a row, even as the global economy grew.
"These three year ... more Sussex, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New research urges a rethink on global energy subsidies  Paris (AFP) March 17, 2017CO2 stable for 3rd year despite global growth: IEA  Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New Zealand lauded for renewables, but challenges remain |
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 Graz, Austria (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the main cause of ageing in cells. To counter this, nature uses an enzyme called superoxide dismutase to eliminate superoxide as a free radical.
Superoxide also occurs in cell respiration for energy production and is the preliminary stage and thus source of singlet oxygen. TU Graz's Stefan Freun ... more Sydney (AFP) March 15, 2017Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Exhaust fumes as a resource |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017 
More than 100,000 acres off the coast of North Carolina go on the auction block Thursday for potential wind energy development, the U.S. government said.
The U.S. Department of Interior pounded the gavel to open the seventh offshore wind auction, putting 122,405 acres off the North Carolina coast on the block for commercial wind energy leasing.
In August 2014, the Bureau of Ocean ... moreWashington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017North Carolina offshore wind hailed as job creator  London (UPI) Mar 13, 2017Flagship English Channel wind farm nears completion Paris (UPI) Mar 06, 2017French, Spanish companies set for more wind power off coast of France |
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 London, UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
The government of Antigua and Barbuda (GOAB) further strives toward the realisation of generating 20 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy resources by the year 2020. The installation of a 150 kWp clean power project on the Caribbean twin islands state, to be implemented shortly by the clean energy provider PV Energy Limited, marks the first step in Barbuda towards the final goal of ... more Espoo, Finland (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Nanotube film may resolve longevity problem of challenger solar cells  Barrington RI (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Nuera Solar Announces Partnership with The Solar Village Project  Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017EU close to 2020 renewable energy target |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 15, 2017 
Toshiba shares plunged Wednesday as fears grow about the future of one of Japan's best-known firms, hit by massive losses and accounting fraud allegations at its US nuclear unit.
The Tokyo-listed stock dropped as much as 13.62 percent at one point, with concerns that the embattled company's shares could be delisted from the bourse.
Toshiba ended the day at 189.5 yen ($1.65), down 12.22 p ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017The EIC and Nuclear AMRC sign MoU  Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017German energy company RWE evolving for success  Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Potential approach to how radioactive elements could be 'fished out' of nuclear waste |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
Even plants have to live on an energy budget. While they're known for converting solar energy into chemical energy in the form of sugars, plants have sophisticated biochemical mechanisms for regulating how they spend that energy. Making oils costs a lot.
By exploring the details of this delicate energy balance, a group of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National ... more Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 16, 2017NASA Study Confirms Biofuels Reduce Jet Engine Pollution  Cambridge, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Scientists harness solar power to produce clean hydrogen from biomass  Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Petrol and jet fuel alternatives are produced by yeast cell factories |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 19, 2017 
The last large coal-fired power plant in Beijing has suspended operations, with the city's electricity now generated by natural gas, the state news agency reported as smog enveloped the Chinese capital this weekend.
The shuttering of the Huangneng Beijing Thermal Power Plant comes on the heels of China's annual legislative sessions, where Premier Li Keqiang promised to "make our skies blue a ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Fitch: Azerbaijan's energy company facing mixed pressures  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Saudi Arabia takes wait-and-see approach to U.S. oil  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Norway's Statoil aims to boost local energy sector |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
Global warming is driven by the Earth's energy imbalance (EEI): our planet traps more and more heat due to continuous increasing greenhouse gases. From the energy perspective, the global warming is actually ocean warming, since ocean stores more than 90% of the trapped heat. Therefore, ocean heat content (OHC) change is a fundamental indicator of global warming, thus direct measurement of OHC wi ... more Durham NH (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Is spring getting longer  Baden-Baden, Germany (AFP) March 18, 2017US climate scepticism clouds G20 meet  Nairobi (AFP) March 15, 201713 killed in Kenya in drought-related violence |
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 Washington (AFP) March 17, 2017  World Bank investments in commercial financial institutions is indirectly allowing land-grabs, evictions and pollution in Southeast Asia, a watchdog group charged in a report Friday.
By investing in banks and other so-called financial intermediaries, World Bank funds can increase poverty, social strife and promote projects which hasten climate change, according to a report by Inclusive Devel ... moreMumbai (AFP) March 19, 2017Adani to begin work on Australia mine by August: report Prague (AFP) March 19, 2017Czech energy group bucks green trend with bet on coal Washington (AFP) March 17, 2017World Bank indirectly backs harmful SE Asian projects: report |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 
Chinese state media is reporting that the country's space program has developed a craft capable of both landing on the moon and flying in low-Earth orbit.
The new spacecraft is claimed to be able to accommodate multiple astronauts, according to spaceship engineer Zhang Bainian, who Science and Technology Daily cited as comparing the forthcoming ship to the Orion craft currently in developm ... more Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes  Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2017Riding an asteroid: China's next space goal |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017  Lockheed Martin has received a $40 million contract modification to sustain the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor fleet.
Under the agreement, the company will strip and recoat F-22 coatings reverting earlier than initially expected.
Work on the contract will be performed at various locations in California, Georgia, Utah and Texas. The U.S. Department of Defense expects the work to be ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017Boeing gets $3.2B for Apache sales to Saudi Arabia  Stockholm (AFP) March 15, 2017Sweden wants new tax on airline tickets  Hong Kong (AFP) March 15, 2017Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific sees first loss in 8 years |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) March 17, 2017 
Intel's $15-billion purchase of Israeli firm Mobileye could help fuel the country's rise in the driverless car industry - not as a builder of vehicles, but as the brains behind them.
Monday's deal, the largest ever in Israel's tech sector, could help boost trade despite the fact no commercial cars are assembled in the country.
The self-styled "startup nation" has no real tradition of au ... more Paris (AFP) March 15, 2017Renault chiefs implicated in decades-long emissions fraud: probe  New York (AFP) March 16, 2017More gas guzzlers due to Trump? Not necessarily  Washington (AFP) March 15, 2017US launches probe after hoverboard fire kills two-year-old |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
The oceans are great at absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, but when their deep waters are brought to the surface, the oceans themselves can be a source of this prevalent greenhouse gas.
Wind patterns together with the Earth's rotation drive deep ocean water - and the CO2 it sequesters - upward, replacing surface water moving offshore. A process known as upwelling, it occurs on th ... more Prague (UPI) Mar 06, 2017Czech scientists build non-metal magnet out of carbon  Boston MA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017Graphene sheets capture cells efficiently  Birmingham UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbon |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
Researchers at ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have built a tiny redox flow battery. This means that future computer chip stacks - in which individual chips are stacked like pancakes to save space and energy - could be supplied with electrical power and cooled at the same time by such integrated flow batteries. In a flow battery, an electrochemical reaction is used to produce electricity out ... more Osaka, Japan (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Simultaneous detection of multiple spin states in a single quantum dot  Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Unexpected, star-spangled find may lead to advanced electronics  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Bushwhacking into Unexplored Transistor Territories |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) March 12, 2017 
Electric light railway tracks soar over Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, a rare example of mass transit infrastructure on a continent ruled by ramshackle, diesel-spewing buses.
But despite government promises, the roads below are still clogged with traffic 14 months after the light rail system's opening, and for many residents the city's network of overcrowded minibus taxis remain the only op ... more Singapore (UPI) Jan 25, 2017Machine-learning to inspire Singapore metro buildout  Budapest (AFP) Jan 19, 2017Hungary orders fraud probe into Budapest metro project  San Francisco (AFP) Jan 18, 2017'Hyperloop' rail study for Slovakia-Czech connection |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
China's severe winter air pollution problems may be worsened by changes in atmospheric circulation prompted by Arctic sea ice loss and increased Eurasian snowfall - both caused by global climate change.
Modeling and data analysis done by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggest that sea ice and snowfall changes have shifted China's winter monsoon, helping create stagnant ... more Washington (AFP) March 15, 2017Trump to undo Obama auto emission rules: official  Jakarta (AFP) March 17, 2017Indonesia summons UK envoy over coral reef destruction  Miami (AFP) March 16, 2017Trump budget 'cripples' environment, science, critics say |
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