Exascale computing is the following milestone in the advancement of supercomputers. Capable of processing information much faster than today's most powerful supercomputers, exascale computers will certainly give researchers a new tool for addressing a few of the most significant obstacles facing our world, from climate change to understanding cancer to designing brand-new sort of...
Quantifying electric fields in semiconductor devices: The schematic shows electric field distribution in the channel of a GaN transistor; laser beams highlight the second harmonic generation (SHG) nature of the technique. credit: Yuke Cao Power-saving electronics are becoming increasingly important in the quest for a carbon-neutral world. Advancements in this technology are making it possible...
Credit: Copyright Dr. Kateryna/fotobia.com A study from the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University has led to the promising discovery of a new antimalarial compound. The discovery unlocks the possibility of developing new drugs targeting malaria, one of the deadliest infectious diseases on Earth. Gerry Wright, a biochemistry and biomedical sciences...
The context of cooperation with UC Water and the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced, scientists from UC Santa Cruz have released an investigation that suggests that encompassing California's 6,350 km network of public water shipment canals with photovoltaic panels could be a financially viable way to advance both renewable energy sources and...
An odoriferous, toxic gas can now be converted into clean-burning petroleum using a brand-new chemical process that has been found by specialists. The procedure converts hydrogen sulfide—more commonly known as "drain gas"—into hydrogen fuel and was recently described in the American Chemical Society publication ACS Sustainable Chemical Engineering. Hydrogen sulfide is a byproduct of industrial...
The now-familiar sight of conventional propeller wind turbines might be substituted in the years to come with wind farms consisting of an extra compact and efficient vertical turbine design. A new study from Oxford Brookes University has found that the vertical turbine concept is far more effective than conventional turbines in large-scale wind farms. When...
According to new study from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, changes in major wind and ocean circulation systems can briefly accelerate or reverse the rate of ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska. According to Claudine Hauri, a researcher at the UAF International Arctic Research Center, ocean acidification is typically viewed as a slow push...
A study done by the University of Queensland discovered that increasing reforestation efforts in coastal areas could considerably reduce the amount of sediment runoff reaching coral reefs and enhance their resilience. The research project examined over 5,500 coastline coastal locations around the globe and discovered that almost 85 percent of them leached silt to coral...
In a paper released in Nature Communications, the research study team describes the complicated physical processes working to recognize the chemistry of ice formation. The molecular-level viewpoint of this process may assist in forecasting the formation and melting of ice, from singular crystals to glaciers and ice sheets. The latter is essential to measure...
Hydrogen fuel stemmed from the sea could be a bountiful and sustainable substitute to fossil fuels; however, the potential power source has been limited by technological obstacles, consisting of exactly how to harvest it. Scientists at the University of Central Florida designed for the very first time a nanoscale material that can successfully divide seawater...
