Hydrogen made from alcohol by scientists using iron catalyst, UV light
Science often looks like white coats and high-tech, expensive labs, but sometimes, the future of energy starts with…
US tests spin fuel in 180-million-degree Fahrenheit plasma for reactors
Scientists in the US have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel inside tokamaks operating at around 100 million degrees…
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. …
Mining firm fast-tracks off-grid project combining renewables, BESS
Fortescue, an Australia-based metals mining major, is working to eliminate fossil fuel usage by shifting to its off-grid…
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…
US lab models lightning from clouds in plastic to study storm physics
The scientific community long assumed that to understand how lightning works, one needed a massive storm cloud. But…