Hydrogen Production from Used Plastic
Environment and Climate

Hydrogen Production from Used Plastic

Although hydrogen production is seen as a potential replacement for fossil fuels, the processes either produce too much carbon dioxide or are too expensive. Obtaining hydrogen from plastic garbage by Rice University researchers [more…]

If Personal Robots Were Cuter
SCIENCE

If Personal Robots Were Cuter

At the Media Lab, a research scientist named Sharifa Alghowinem is researching personal robot technology that can explain emotions in both English and Arabic. Research science at the Personal Robotics Group (PRG) at the MIT Media Lab [more…]

New Way to Reduce Building Energy Use
Environment and Climate

New Way to Reduce Building Energy Use

Highly energy efficient buildings can reduce energy costs as well as carbon emissions and air pollution that contribute to climate change and other negative health effects. However, energy efficient building design has environmental [more…]

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Environment and Climate

Macron's climate finance summit fails

It was originally planned to be a turning point. French President Emmanuel Macron will host foreign leaders and finance ministers on Thursday and Friday at a neoclassical building built by Napoleon's orders to house the Paris stock exchange. [more…]

Energy Saving Single Wing Air Robots
Environment and Climate

Energy Saving Single Wing Air Robots

Flying robotic systems have shown great promise for solving a variety of practical problems, such as searching for survivors of natural disasters, delivering packages to difficult locations, and exploring isolated environments. Robotics and computer scientists [more…]

Lasers classify recyclables
Environment and Climate

Lasers classify recyclables

Our world can be cleaned with the help of machine learning and materials science. Do you diligently recycle glass bottles, cans and cardboard boxes? Maybe it all fits in the right container and is less environmentally damaging. [more…]

Faster Charging in Electric Vehicles
Environment and Climate

Faster Charging in Electric Vehicles

Rapid charging of lithium-ion batteries can cause a phenomenon known as lithium plating. This is a metallic lithium ion that continues to expand, accumulating on the battery's negative electrode instead of mixing with it. [more…]

New Paint Reduces Carbon Emissions
Environment and Climate

New Paint Reduces Carbon Emissions

Scientists at Stanford University have developed a new technology that can keep homes and other structures warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer, significantly reducing energy use, prices and greenhouse gas emissions. [more…]

Important Discovery in Nuclear Fusion
Environment and Climate

Important Discovery in Nuclear Fusion

On the way to plasma-based fusion reactors, the discovery of self-heating in magnetically confined plasmas is an important development. The energy released as a result of nuclear fusion reactions in a plasma is stored in a fusion reactor. [more…]

Energy Produced by Coils and Spheres
Environment and Climate

Energy Produced by Coils and Spheres

Researchers have discovered a polymer phase transition that converts heat into usable power. They claim that this behavior can be used to increase the energy efficiency of appliances such as air conditioners. The most energy-hungry household appliance, of all other appliances. [more…]

More Effective Industrial Water Filtration
Environment and Climate

More Effective Industrial Water Filtration

The French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences have joined forces to create a unique protein mimic that can self-assemble into porous structures. Pores have a lipid membrane [more…]

Application of Proton Therapy
Health

Application of Proton Therapy

By reducing particle loss in proton beams, a new method could improve the effectiveness of high-dose cancer radiation therapy and reduce patient pain. In the treatment of proton cancer, extremely high doses of proton radiation directly to tumors [more…]