Even with all the benefits of modern, everyday technology, it is certainly not making us any healthier. In fact, your heart really hates your laptop, and the sedentary lifestyle that commonly comes with it.
But a new product attempts to...
Less than 40% of the nine million tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) that Europe produces is treated according to environmental and legal requirements.
If this waste is not disposed of safely and responsibly, hazardous substances can be...
Earlier this week, The European Commission decided against governmental subsidies for renewable energy projects, by issuing new guidelines in support of back-up energy generating facilities, such as coal- and gas-powered plants. The EU officials claim that this is the only...
New multi-termal, multi-junction architecture holds the key to efficient and cheap electricity generation using commercially available silicon and thin-film solar cells. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by scientists from Clemson and Pennsylvania State Universities.
The researchers claim...
New technology, developed by scientists at CSIRO, Australia, promise an effective way of removing nuclear waste from water, bringing it to rainwater quality.
By using aluminium and magnesium-rich minerals, the researchers claim to be able to clean-up all contaminants at...
There is no way to sugar-coat this piece of news. While millions of children around the world die each day due to lack of food, the British throw away 4.2 million tons food and drinks, which in some cases...
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, has bold plans for the electric vehicle, but meeting that plan is probably worthless without an adequate supply of lithium-ion battery packs.
The lithium-ion battery is to the Tesla Model S what chicken...
If you pay attention to some media outlets, and even the President of the United States, you might be led to believe that electric vehicles aren't doing nearly as well as expected.
Of course, if you say that we expect...
Like some automakers, Volkswagen hasn't been particularly quick off the line when it comes to electric and hybrid vehicles. Still, this doesn't mean that Volkswagen has been sitting on its haunches.
After all, Volkswagen engineers need to meet the same...
According to new research published in November in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, Joshua Thienpont and colleagues at Queen's University discovered that drilling sumps that are related to hydrocarbon extraction can cause major issues with aquatic ecosystems.
Although they are...
