Waste from 150 million date palm trees could help make bio-oil
The date palm has been a “Tree of Life” in the Middle East, providing shade, shelter, and sustenance. …
Engineered wood can store energy for use
Solar energy has a simple but annoying weakness. It disappears when the sun does. Even the most efficient…
Liquids can fracture like solids under extreme stress: Scientists
Researchers from Drexel University have discovered that liquids can, it appears, fracture like solids under specific conditions. In…
Scientists use sound to control material behavior, adjust device stiffness
Researchers have uncovered a way to control material behavior using sound. In a study published in Nature Communications,…
China offers new insights into one of lunar science’s enduring mysteries
Recent advances in AI are helping scientists unlock new secrets about the Moon’s far side, one of the…
US coal mines to turn into underground water batteries with new method
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have successfully developed advanced modeling tools that could transform the nation’s…
New model hints sea ice salt amplified Earth’s ancient global glaciation
Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of the most extreme climate…
Solar storms, AI forecasts, and the future of safe flight on Earth and in space
In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sit down with Dr. Lulu Zhao, an assistant professor of climate…
China aims space solar plant to charge satellites and tame typhoons
China could accelerate the development of the Zhuri “Chasing the Sun” project, an ambitious plan to build a…
NASA tests method to extract oxygen from simulated lunar soil
Space travel has always had a luggage problem. If you want to breathe, drink, or move on the…
Scientists turn old phones, paper waste into next-gen battery material
A new sustainable method turns discarded mobile phone batteries and industrial lignin into a powerhouse material for sodium-ion…
Half-ton magnet aces world-first 1.8 million°F fusion plasma confinement
A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked a major milestone for…