The hands-on drive for sustainable living in Europe
Urban dwellers across the EU are having a say in making their surroundings friendlier to people and the environment.
Environment
Mar 18, 2024
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News tagged with energy saving
Collaborating to build a more efficient rocket
Sal Rodriguez, a nuclear engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, is forging a rocket revolution with the help of the University of New Mexico and student Graham Monroe.
Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2024
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Researchers: Effective climate action requires us to abandon viewing our efforts as a 'sacrifice'
If you're like most people, you've been taught that climate action is a sacrifice. Cutting emissions from fossil fuels, you've probably been told, is the economy-squeezing price we must pay for a livable planet. But our research ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2023
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Simulating damage propagation in composite materials to realize high-quality carbon fiber reinforced plastics
Structural materials with useful mechanical properties have applications in a diverse range of fields. A reliable way to enhance the properties of structural materials is to make them lighter without compromising their strength.
Materials Science
Jul 18, 2023
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Customizing catalysts for solid-state reactions
Chemists at Hokkaido University and the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD) have developed the first high-performance catalyst specifically designed and optimized for solid-state, mechanochemical ...
Polymers
Mar 9, 2023
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Researchers develop innovative tool for measuring electron dynamics in semiconductors
At the heart of every mobile phone, laptop and autonomous vehicle is a tiny semiconductor whose properties and, ultimately, performance are determined by free electrons. Now, UC Berkeley researchers have developed a new way ...
Nanophysics
Feb 20, 2023
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A multi-turn energy recovery accelerator that achieves high beam power with lower power consumption
Particle accelerators are devices that use electromagnetic fields to speed up particles and collide them together or against a specific target. These devices are widely used by physicists to study particles, the forces that ...
A new catalyst that transforms carbon dioxide into added-value chemical products
Global warming is an increasingly worrying problem. Although the greenhouse effect is a necessary process to maintain living conditions on Earth, our current societies are increasing the emission of greenhouse gases into ...
Materials Science
Jan 31, 2023
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'Green banks,' poised for billions in climate funds, draw states' attention
In recent years, several states have created or helped to fund specialized banks that lend money to homeowners and businesses for energy-saving and climate projects. Now, states have billions more reasons to establish such ...
Economics & Business
Jan 9, 2023
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Developing more sustainable and recyclable polyurethane foams
A team of researchers from the Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM) at the University of Liège (Belgium) has developed an innovative process that rethinks the manufacturing of polyurethane (PU) foams ...
Polymers
Nov 29, 2022
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