The electric car market is about to get a major upgrade - researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new breed of fast chargers for electric vehicles boasting greater power efficiency and a exponentially more minute size....
The popular tide has turned against plastic straws bringing them from objects of convenience down to symbols of waste and pollution, particularly of marine trash. How many images of poor turtles with plastic straws stuck in their noses have...
The United Kingdom has started a new government-backed plan to cut the amount of food that is wasted annually in Britain – estimated to be 10 million tonnes with a value of 20 billion pounds. Tesco, Nestle and Coca-Cola...
Over the next three years, Uber will spend $10 million on programs aimed at reducing traffic congestion in cities. The popularity of Uber’s ride-hailing service is responsible exacerbating this problem. Traffic congestion is responsible for air quality problems that...
The next-generation mobile and portable electronic devices will use their owners as an energy resource using Triboelectric Nanogenerators (TENGs). Along with human movements, TENGs can capture energy from common energy sources such as wind, wave, and machine vibration.
TENGs contain...
A new battery could be made partly from carbon dioxide captured from power plants. This battery could continuously convert carbon dioxide into a solid mineral carbonate as it discharges. Although this concept is only based on early-stage research, the...
Nano filters made of aluminum oxide could be cheaply produced using virtually no energy from a fix amount of liquid metal gallium.
Researchers discovered when aluminum is added to the core of liquid gallium at room temperatures, nano-sheets of aluminum...
The Volkswagen ID Electric Car is anticipated to be a Tesla Model 3 rival. Although, no car company, including Volkswagen, has yet to produce an electric car that truly rivals an equivalent Tesla. Let’s take a closer look at...
Artificial light at night makes guppies more courageous during the day, according to a new behavioral study. Researchers exposed fish to artificial light at night, which not only made them more active during the night, but also made them...
On Monday, a group of oil and gas companies pledged to slash emissions of methane emissions to a fifth by 2025 to battle climate change. Methane is roughly 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas.
The...
