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...
Crédito: Erik Larson / Pixabay Paris has an ambitious strategy to make its iconic Seine River swimmable by 2024-- and if it works, it might provide other European cities a blueprint for cleaning up their own bacteria-laden rivers. The challenge: Paris has already announced strategies to hold the 2024 Summer Olympics' opening ceremony at its historic...
Researchers have joined macro photography with DNA metabarcoding to create a brand-new botanical "CSI" device that might hold the key to safeguarding the future of Australia's critically endangered carnivorous plants. The brand-new technology-- developed by researchers from Curtin University, the Botanical and Zoological Natural History Collections in Munich, and the University of Munich-- enables specialists...
University of Queensland researchers have cracked an issue that's frustrated chemists and physicists for many years, potentially causing a new age of effective, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologies Utilizing quantum mechanics, Professor Ben Powell from UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics has discovered a recipe that enables molecular switches to function at room temperature. "Switches are...
A view of Piz Benina. Credit: CGTN. The renowned snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading quick and being replaced by vegetation cover-- a procedure called "greening" that is predicted to increase climate change, a study said Thursday. The research, released in Science, was based on 38 years of satellite images throughout the entirety of the...
Man and a boy walk across the dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 2, 2022. Credit: AP Photo. Because of Global Heating earth is slipping closer to the warming limit international agreements are striving to prevent. With close to a 50% possibility that The planet will...
Tim Fischer takes over from Klaus Jacob Jensen who will leave in January 2023. Credit: Ramboll Ramboll has appointed Tim Fischer as the new administrator for the engineering consultancy's global wind division. So Fischer (pictured) replaces Klaus Jacob Jensen. Who, in joint administration with Fischer, has led Ramboll's wind company since 2011. Jacob Jensen will remain and...
New method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment. Credit: MIT. Humans must transition to more sustainable energy sources to slow down climate change and stop its unfavorable effects. Therefore, engineers worldwide have been dealing with various technologies that can transform natural resources, such as sunshine, wind, and water, into electrical energy. Renewable energy Wind turbines,...
Tasiilaq, Greenland. Credit: Courthouse News Service. Climate changes in the tropical Pacific have momentarily put the brakes on fast warming and ice melting in Greenland. Researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan have clarified a confusing, decade-long stagnation in summer warming across Greenland. Their observational analysis and computer simulations exposed that changes in sea surface temperature in the...
A Desert Full of Life Satellite images of the Sahara desert show a dry expanse, the endless rolling dunes we know from movies. Except typical satellite images do not reveal individual trees; however, that doesn't always mean they're not there. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and NASA trained artificial intelligence to recognize trees and have them take another...
