Many people have become familiar with using face masks to protect themselves and others throughout the coronavirus pandemic, yet that does not mean the masks are consistently comfortable, especially during exercise. Now, scientists reporting in ACS Nano have created a dynamic respirator that regulates its pore size in response to altering conditions, such as...
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, wave power… Sustainable resources are an essential pillar of any strategy to decarbonize the planet's power generation sectors and eradicate fossil fuel usage. However, for several factors – intermittency, location dependence, land needs, and others – they can not accomplish it independently.A scalable form of zero-emissions energy that can reliably...
China has reached a new milestone in humanity's experiments to control the power of the stars.In May, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds.The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for so long...
