The cost to producers for implementing EPR for packaging fell by £1 billion due to the exclusion of business waste.The Recycling Association has cautioned that proposals for business waste collection areas in the Scottish Government's circular economy bill could be "damaging" to the recycling industry.Within the consultation, the Scottish Government states it intends to...
The sand battery has been installed and is functioning well according to the power companyFinnish scientists have set up the globe's first completely working "sand battery," which can save environment-friendly power for months at once.The designers claim this can resolve the trouble of year-round supply, a significant issue for eco-friendly power.Using low-grade sand, the...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainFor decades, scientists have been seeking a catalyst that dramatically lowers the price of fabricating hydrogen fuel cells.Such an advance could trigger a green power transformation, with everything from laptops to locomotives running on a fuel whose merely byproduct is water.A new study led by the University at Buffalo indicates that...
Credit: Allard Mosk/Matthias KühmayerWe can see things because light bounces off of them. Scientists say they have discovered a manner to make light pass directly via things-- the secret to invisibility.Invisibility is not science fiction anymore. Researchers have developed a single light wave that, when emitted via an item, makes the item appear invisible...
A European consortium, EuroFusion, has taken an essential step on the long road to commercially viable nuclear fusion.The consortium just revealed the beginning of a five-year "conceptual design" stage for its DEMOnstration power plant (DEMO), a press statement reveals.This means nuclear fusion researchers are starting design work on a European demonstration power station that...
Credit: Sharon McCutcheon/UnsplashA new study proposes that artificial intelligence (AI) can devise approaches to wealth distribution that are more popular than systems developed by people.The discoveries made by a group of researchers at UK-based AI firm DeepMind show that machine learning systems are not just proficient at fixing complicated physics and biology issues but...
The researchers' method: introducing ripples in 2D material, molybdenum disulfide to achieve two orders of magnitude enhancement in carrier mobility at room temperature, allowing electrons to move faster through the material. Credit: Dr. Wu Jing, A*STAR, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering.Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are semiconducting materials with thicknesses on the atomic range, which...
A report states that Tesla and Honda's self-driving cars had 363 accidents in a year.We were assured a very near future where autonomous machines would be serving our demands and vehicle ownership would be rendered unneeded: robots would rapidly and effectively deliver our orders, and we might squeeze in a couple of more hours...
AMANO Jun-ichi/WikimediaIn Kasukabe, Japan lies the world's biggest underground floodwater facility. Large artificial concrete caverns that compose the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, also called the G-Cans project, sprawl under the city's surface-level infrastructure.The large subterranean drainage system was developed to prevent devastating flooding of the waterways that surround the city. Because of...
A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue). Note that this is a single strand of RNA that folds back upon itself. Credit: Vossman/ WikipediaA new computational method created by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center successfully matches data from correspondent gene-expression...
