Using a PEM electrolyzer, the researchers create hydrogen in the laboratory. Credit: Eduardo Gracia Researchers at Umeå University have made a breakthrough that could make hydrogen, a carbon dioxide (CO2)-free fuel, more affordable. The team has created a new method to increase the production of hydrogen gas from water and electricity, a process critical to...
This innovation allows for the absorption of sunlight without compromising the view through these transparent surfaces.Credit: Masood Aslami/ pexels.com A group of scientists from Michigan State University has created a technology capable of transforming see-through surfaces, such as windows in buildings or cell phone screens, into surfaces that can collect solar energy. This innovation allows for...
All we are longing for is a less polluted environment. Credit Pexels. Green hydrogen is a form of hydrogen produced using renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar power, rather than fossil fuels. It is considered a promising solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and achieving a more sustainable energy future. Green hydrogen is...
Iniopera reconstruction. Credit: Richard Dearden / University of BIrmingham A rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimera has revealed new hints of the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous time, some 300 million years ago. Ancient chimera A research study led by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the University of Birmingham revealed an ancient...
The world of science is everchanging and progressive. Every day a new scientific discovery is made. Here are some of the most relevant this year: Consumption of Microplastics Can Cause Evolutionary Changes After the non-biting midges of the species Chironomus riparius were exposed to microplastics, the genome of subsequent generations changed. Credit: Markus Pfenninger In April 2022,...
A donut-shaped magnetic confinement device called a tokamak is one of the leading designs for a working fusion power generator, with many such experiments running worldwide. Credit: Christopher Roux, EUROfusion Consortium, CC BY Our society faces the grand difficulty of offering sustainable, secure, and affordable forms of generating energy while trying to reduce CO2 emissions to net...
Aaron Foster/Getty Images Ever since the Cambrian blast 538.8 million years earlier-- a time when most of the animal phyla we're familiar with today were established-- 5 significant mass extinction events have whittled down the biodiversity of all creatures, great and tiny. Researchers from the United States have uncovered proof of one happening earlier, around 550...
Texas A&M University researchers are using 3D printing and salt to create environmentally friendly polymers that will degrade over time. Credit: Texas A&M Engineering A crew of scientists, one from the University of Cambridge and the other three from the College of Oxford, has used whole-body 3D imaging innovation for more information about the evolutionary...
The ultra-faint Milky Way companion galaxy Leo I appears as a faint patch to the right of the bright star, Regulus. Credit: Scott Anttila Anttler 2 astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have proposed a method to see what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Planet: a behemoth three million times the...
The earth has nine years to avert climate catastrophe. However, we are still pumping out record levels of pollution. A chimney from the Linden Cogeneration Plant is seen in Linden, New Jersey, on April 22nd, 2022. Credit: Kena Betancur / VIEWpress The growing climate catastrophe The globe is rapidly coming close to a current level of climate catastrophe...
