The CROZEX cruise measured carbon sinking three kilometres beneath the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean and found that naturally ...

The Three Gorges Dam impounds roughly 39 cubic kilometres of Yangtze water at an average of 175 metres above sea level — ...

A single blade on the newest generation of offshore wind turbines is longer than a football pitch, and its rotor sweeps a ...

A new study describes a perovskite diode that achieves 26.7% power-conversion efficiency when operated as a solar cell and 31% external quantum efficiency when operated as a light-emitting diode, ...

Astronauts take time to adjust how strongly they grip and move objects when transitioning between Earth and space, basing those adjustments on predictions their brains make about the risk of making ...

Platelets are the blood components that enable clotting and can be decisive in saving patients who are bleeding to death from traumatic injuries. Until now, donated platelets have been confined to ...

Scientists using the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite have detected strong and widespread mesoscale eddy activity in Antarctic coastal waters, giving researchers their clearest view yet of ...

A computer vision system developed at Columbia Engineering can determine how much energy a solar panel will generate over a year – and how much more it could generate if repositioned – using nothing ...

Researchers at the University of Western Australia and Universitas Brawijaya have demonstrated that adding biochar to two-phase anaerobic digesters increases hydrogen and methane outputs from recycled ...

Polar vortexes. Hurricanes. Wildfires. With climate change making extreme weather events more frequent and intense, it is getting harder to keep the lights on and HVAC systems running. As a power ...

When it comes to batteries, there are always areas for improvement: the race is on to develop batteries that are cheaper, safer, longer lasting, more energy dense, and easily recyclable. In a review ...

Creating "a star in a jar" – replicating on Earth the way the sun and stars create energy through fusion – requires a "jar" that can contain superhot plasma and is low-cost enough to be built around ...