The science of nanotechnology, specifically nanomaterials, has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade, and scientists are discovering more material characteristics than they ever could have before, just examining macromaterials.
For example, when silicon oxidizes with water...
A new Metal Organic Framework (MOF) may have the ability to filter environmental toxins out of water, thanks to a team of scientists at Monash University at CSIRO who developed it.
MOFs are comprised of clusters of atoms that are connected...
Environmentalists have discovered that airlines are making an enormous amount of money, to the tune of half a billion euros, by passing on a carbon surcharge to passengers despite a November EU decision to freeze the carbon tax it...
South Korea has initiated the development of a design for a fusion power demonstration reactor. The provisionally named Korean Demonstration Fusion Power Plant, K-DEMO, will be build in collaboration with the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory...
A study on climate change conducted by the anthropologist Michael O'Brien, dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri, reveals that public perception and acceptance are influenced by the rate certain terms appear in...
By discovering how molecules behave in energy-efficient electronics, scientists have found that a ten-fold increase in switching efficiency can be obtained by changing just one carbon atom.
A team of scientists at Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork and...
British researchers have observed that willow trees typically used for green energy actually produce more than five times more biofuel if they grow diagonally, as opposed to those that typically grow vertically towards the sky.
The study, detailed in Biotechnology...
During his inauguration speech Monday morning, President Obama surprisingly addressed the need to fight climate change and the necessity of moving toward cleaner energy sources.
During his first term, President Obama ran into considerable obstacles in his quest to combat...
The efficiency of photovoltaic cells must be improved to further renewable energy science, but the endeavor has so far eluded scientists.
To date, under controlled laboratory conditions, the best cells can convert nearly half the sunlight they absorb into 44%...
Quick, tell me, “An ounce of prevention is worth a…” Well, when it comes to climate change, there is at least one report telling us how much prevention is going to cost us, and it's not a pretty number....
