The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized toy.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jun 17, 2013 3.9 / 5 (8) 3

The value of a fuel's long-term usefulness and viability is judged through its energy return on investment; the comparison between the eventual fuel and the energy invested to create it. The energy return on investment (EROI) ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy, storage solutions are urgently needed. One option is to use the electrical energy generated inside solar cells to split water by means of electrolysis, ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

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Efficient, robust and economic catalyst materials hold the key to achieving a breakthrough in fuel cell technology. Scientists from Jülich and Berlin have developed a material for converting hydrogen and ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jun 17, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, developed a novel, simple method to synthesize hierarchically nanoporous frameworks of nanocrystalline metal oxides such ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

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The harder you pull, the quicker it goes. At least, that used to be the rule in mechanochemistry, a method that researchers apply to set chemical reactions in motion by means of mechanical forces. However, ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Waste from textile and paint industries often contains organic dyes such as methylene blue as pollutants. Photocatalysis is an efficient means of reducing such pollution, and molybdenum trioxide ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jun 17, 2013 2.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

At 94, Dick Post is the oldest scientist Lawrence Livermore Laboratory has ever had. And he may be the most fascinating.

Physics - General Physics

Jun 14, 2013 4.9 / 5 (21) 2

The electricity from our sockets could soon come from a high-tech device flying in the sky. The innovative research project to generate wind energy with the aid of a kite won over the "Venture Kick" jury; ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jun 14, 2013 3 / 5 (4) 0

Out in the wilds or anywhere off the grid, sophisticated instruments small enough to fit in a shirt pocket will one day scavenge power from sunlight, body heat, or other sources to monitor water quality or ...

Technology - Engineering

Jun 13, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) —Cheaper clean-energy technologies could be made possible thanks to a new discovery. Research team members led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, have found ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jun 13, 2013 4.5 / 5 (11) 2 |

Researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois, evaluating the biomass potential of woody crops, are taking a closer look at the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), which ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 13, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —Flying has always fascinated humans, probably because we are so relentlessly Earthbound. One of the things that interests researchers who study flight is the question of how animals that do ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 13, 2013 4.2 / 5 (5) 0 |

Scientists now know that thunderstorms, working as powerful natural terrestrial particle accelerators, produce intense flashes of ionizing radiation called "dark lightning." To further their understanding ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 13, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2

(Phys.org) —What would you do with a camera that can take a picture of something and tell you how new it is? If you're Berkeley Lab scientists Katherine Louie, Ben Bowen, Jian-Hua Mao and Trent Northen, ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Jun 13, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |