Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was an African antelope with a bluish-gray pelt pertaining to the living sable and roan antelopes. The last blue antelope was shot around 1800. Only 34 years after it was first explained scientifically, making it the just large African mammal species that have become extinct in...
Solar panels are seen on houses inAlmere Noorderplassen, The Netherlands. Credit: Unsplash / Daria Nepriakhina Since the start of the war early this year, a new report discovers that approximately a quarter of the European Union's electricity has originated from wind and solar. A record-setting number and the development in wind and solar has saved...
The hydrogen-diesel direct injection dual-fuel system developed at UNSW enables a traditional diesel engine to be retrofitted to run as a hydrogen-diesel hybrid engine. Credit: Prof. Shawn Kook Engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have retrofitted a diesel engine to use hydrogen as a fuel. Resulting in a reduction in carbon emissions,...
Abstract illustration of atoms passing through water and an electrified membrane under a shining sun. Credit: Meenesh Singh A group of scientists led by Meenesh Singh at the College of Illinois Chicago has discovered a way to convert 100% carbon dioxide from the industrial exhaust into ethylene, a fundamental building block for plastic products. Their findings...
The Waveline Magnet prototype is made up of numerous floating platforms connected to one another to resemble a floating spine. The flexible and modular system is made to allow the energy generator to smoothly follow the motion of the waves. Credit: SWEL/ YouTube via Screenshot. Nevertheless, a firm from Cyprus has created a unique floating...
A Powerful X-ray scanning techniques revealed the 1mm creature in perfect detail. Credit: P Donoghue et al/University of Bristol. Researchers share that they have solved an evolutionary puzzle of a 500 million-year-old microscopic, creature with a mouth yet no anus. When discovered in 2017, it was reported that the small sack-like aquatic creature's fossil might be...
Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine-- the main component of Formica-- chemists have created an affordable, accessible, and energy-efficient form to capture CO2 (Carbon dioxide) from smokestacks, a key aim for the USA and other countries as they seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The process for synthesizing the melamine material, posted this week in...
Cooling paper by Ruby Wallau / Northeastern University The "cooling paper," an eco-friendly alternative to air conditioning, is crafted from recyclable paper and does not require electricity to operate. Air conditioning is typically taken for granted until there is a power outage and it ceases to function. But what if staying cool could be achieved...
Belinda Chang (back left) leads a lab that focuses on the evolutionary transition of animals' vision. Sarah Dungan (right of Chang) researched whale vision as a former member of Chang’s lab. Credit: Diana Tyszko College of Toronto researchers have clarified the evolutionary transition of whales' early ancestors from on-shore living to deep-sea foraging, recommending that these...
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...
