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Researchers have answered key questions to help prevent damage and improve the safety of hydraulic systems used for pipelines, water turbines and other applications Researchers have answered key questions to help prevent damage and improve…

Newly clarified reactions point to novel applications for a long-studied lithium-rich battery materialCredit: Berkeley Lab An international team working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…

Research from KU Leuven and VUB on sensitive geopolitical conflict around Ethiopian mega-damCredit: Google A new study shows that several disagreements between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt around Africa's largest hydropower plant, the new…

Credit: QUT QUT researchers have used carbon dots, created from human hair waste sourced from a Brisbane barbershop, to create a kind of "armour" to improve the performance of cutting-edge solar technology. In a study published in…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An invention from Purdue University innovators may provide a new option to use directed energy for biomedical and defense applications. The Purdue invention uses composite based nonlinear transmission lines…

By binding specific ions in specially designed cages within its pores, a new membrane could enable more efficient flows in energy storage devicesCredit: Artem Baskin/Berkeley Lab Membranes that allow certain molecules to quickly pass…

Contract will cover structural analysis, testing, airworthiness and sustainment servicesCredit: U.S. Air Force SAN ANTONIO -- April 5, 2021 -- Southwest Research Institute will study the effects of aging on military aircraft through a…

Integrated power grids offer benefits, but also pose challenges best addressed by leveraging differencesCredit: Matthew Henry The recent power outages in Texas brought attention to its power grid being separated from the rest of the…

Pufferfish-inspired device relies on sunlight to produce clean drinking waterCredit: Video by Xiaohui Xu, Princeton University A new invention that uses sunlight to drive water purification could help solve the problem of providing clean…

Researchers analyzed socioeconomic and environmental indicators for the 180 municipalities in the mega-region around São Paulo state capital, detecting environmental inequity and dependency.Credit: Leandro Luiz Giatti In Brazil,…

Proposed thermal energy harvester may find applications in waste heat recovery, power supplies within microelectromechanical systems, solar power, space power systemsCredit: Shunmin Zhu, Guoyao Yu, Wei Tang, Jianying Hu, and Ercang Luo …

Lakes could be suitable for the extraction of methane for energy production Lakes store huge amounts of methane. In a new study, environmental scientists at the University of Basel offer suggestions for how it can be extracted and used as…

Device can be used to illuminate dark, underground spaces in daytimeCredit: NTU Singapore A team of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) researchers has designed a 'smart' device to harvest daylight and…

The City, University of London academic will lead on the development of a new generation modelling suite, combining machine learning techniques, for the survivability of wave energy converters in marine environmentsCredit: Mocean Energy …

Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories again has been recognized by Forbes as one of the 500 Best Large Employers 2021. Sandia also won the distinction in 2017 and again in 2019, shortly…

Combined blue and red illumination enhances growth, biosynthesis of D. Salina microalgaeCredit: Xiaojian Zhou/Yangzhou University WASHINGTON, March 30, 2021 -- As ethanol, biodiesel, and other biofuels continue to present…

Gas hydrate deposits in the Black Sea react to post-glacial climate changesCredit: Christian Rohleder. Gas hydrates are a solid compound of gases and water that have an ice-like structure at low temperatures and high pressures.…

Credit: Image produced using QGIS IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand…

Limitations in models used by the IPCC in its calculations of possible pathways to climate-neutral energy production suggests that the potentials of solar photovoltaics as a powerhouse in the green transition have been drastically…

The main conditions are a developed democracy and a transparent market economyCredit: UrFU / Ilya Safarov. A group of researchers from Russia, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland contest the common belief that resource-based…