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

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

Halfway up a slate mountain in Snowdonia, hidden inside a cavern the length of a football pitch, six turbines sit in the dark waiting for a phone call from the National Grid. When the call comes, ...

Saudi Arabia sits on the largest continuous sand sea on Earth, the Rub’ al Khali, an ocean of dunes roughly the size of France, and still puts sand on ships from Australia to pour into its concrete.

Canada will ban the export of tar-like bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to countries that don't match Canadian targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday. ...

Researchers from Wuhan University and Chongqing University have developed a monocular camera localization system that uses prebuilt colored point cloud maps to sharply reduce navigation drift in ...

Perovskite solar cells have emerged as one of the most promising next-generation photovoltaic technologies, but their development still depends heavily on time ...

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, ...

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 ...

Researchers at Texas A and M University have demonstrated a new approach to light-driven motion, showing that lasers can be used to lift and steer objects in multiple directions without physical ...

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has found evidence for water-ice clouds on a Jupiter-like exoplanet called Epsilon Indi Ab, using the ...

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 ...