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…
Singlet fission breaks ‘ceiling’ of solar cells for 130% quantum yield
Researchers have officially shattered the “physical ceiling” of solar energy conversion. By employing a revolutionary “spin-flip” emitter, a…
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…
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…
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…
World’s largest neutrino detector to track supernova blasts
The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed six new strings of…
US team’s fusion plasma heat control method to protect tokamak walls
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…
US picks 5 firms to advance recycling of used nuclear reactor fuel
The Office of Nuclear Energy has selected five companies in the US to research and develop technologies to…
Geothermal energy could beat nuclear, coal to satiate AI power hunger
A new Stanford University study proposes that enhanced geothermal technology (EGS) could be just the ticket for global…