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Researchers at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are studying solar energy facilities with pollinator habitats on site. By this, they hope to rehabilitate declining pollinator populations that play an important role in the agricultural industries. The...
According to a study led by NASA, using data from the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment shows that carbon in Alaska's North Slope tundra ecosystems spends about 13 percent less in frozen soil compared to what it did 40 years...
According to a Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's researchers, climate change poses a big challenge for wind energy production in Europe. They have used spatially and temporally highly resolved climate models. The results have shown that stronger seasonal fluctuations and...
Researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (Swansea University) found a new useful way of using defects in the realm of the nanoporous material. They are investigating how the properties of metal-organic framework (a class of materials resembling microscopic...
A group of researchers from Michigan Technological University, with the assistance from Lei Pan, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, are using mining techniques that are more than a century old to recycle lithium-ion batteries at low cost. These techniques...
The South Korean government wants to develop an ecosystem for hydrogen vehicles. The motivation for this step is trying to move away from fossil fuels towards zero emission energy. The plan has been under discussion for more than a decade....
Tesla states that 0-60 mph time of its Dual Motor Model 3 Performance is 3.5 seconds. However, it might have lied to us: it is even faster!. Tesla enthusiast Erik Strait, DÆrik, performed few acceleration tests on the car mentioned...
Nissan stated that they do not see any use of autonomous system if no human involvement is present. Maarten Sierhuis, chief technology officer at Nissan’s Silicon Valley research lab, stated: "Show me an autonomous system without a human in the...
Conventional insecticides are extremely harmful to the farmer, pollinating insects, and consumers ( residue on fruits and vegetables). Therefore, the world is looking for an alternative, safer way to protect the plants from pest insects. One of them is...
On Thursday, the Trump administration put forth its proposal to freeze fuel-efficiency and pollutions standards for cars, weakening federal fuel efficiency policies from Obama’s era. Last year, President Donald Trump made a similar decision: to abandon the 2015 Paris Agreement, under...