A new finding from Dr. Thomas Pugh, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany, reveals the fact that city vegetation does more good than thought before.
"Green areas may be grown road by road without expensive or big...
Waste cooking oil could be used to make better bioplastics, according to researchers participating at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn Conference at the University of Warwick.
A team at the University of Wolverhampton have used such bacteria called Ralstonia...
Waste water has been found to contain important amounts of energy, trapped inside organic molecules. A new technique coming from a team of researchers at Oregon State University in Corvallis could produce as much as 2.87 watts per liter...
Human-powered flying machines have been dreamed of ever since the Middle Ages, when Da Vinci sketched his ornithopter and his other flying concepts (that remained at that stage). A team from the University of Maryland has now achieved a...
Today I realized something I already knew, but didn't pay importance to: black cars drink more fuel than lighter-colored ones, and this is something the car dealer fails to tell you when you're about to get the cash out...
If you remember, there was a certain company founded by a certain Professor Don Sadoway, who invented a molten salt battery designed specifically for the power grid. The battery had two liquid metal electrodes with molten salt as the...
A paper published today in the journal Nature by scientists from various universities around the world warns that the methane trapped under the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a bomb ready to burst into the atmosphere with devastating effects for...
Cooling and heating are the two most energy consuming activities in a home - 65 percent. A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher in Australia has invented a solar powered cooling/heating system that should cut energy use by 90...
Traditionally, concentrated solar power systems have been made of concave mirrors that reflect sunlight onto a solar cell or from Fresnel lenses that focus the light behind them.
However, there have been lots of practical limitations to using such systems,...
If you live in the U.S., then you probably don't know what the heck Lada is. Well, Lada is a famous Russian car brand that made its way all over Europe in the old communist days. Now, Lada is...
