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A collaboration of researchers from the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) announce the development of an impressive new concept for addressing diseases. Experts say that it's possible to use nanoscale “rockets” to deliver chemicals to the needed sites.
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9 February 2012
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The US Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and General Motors (GM) have just set aside $2.1 million for a three-year grant destined to researchers investigating how to create a fuel cell capable of powering a car for 300 miles on a single charge.
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27 January 2012
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A French company entitled Luxury-Sea is using a new green technology to power its high-class MIG 675 boats that display a minimal impact on the environment.
The best thing about the new toys, besides their similarities with a five-star hotel, is that they rely on ocean water to power their engines, Pure Energy Syst... |
21 December 2011
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Hydrogen-rich atmospheres may be the key to having liquid water on the surface of a rocky exoplanet, even if the body is located up to 15 astronomical units from its parent star. A new study proposes that greenhouse effects can easily warm such a planet up to the point where it becomes habitable.
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30 November 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Experts have found an innovative method that might make the prices of hydrogen cells decrease. Scientists agree upon the fact that the secret ingredient in this case is represented by Vitamin B12, meant to replace the current purpose of platinum, as a much more cost-effective catalyst.
A group of scientists from the... |
28 November 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Japanese scientists from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) are convinced that they've discovered a novel material technology, which they say could be used for the development of advanced fuel cells that will be more efficient than anything under development today.
The key to this achievement is the c... |
22 September 2011
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A group of researchers in the United States announces the development of an improvement to an existing method of creating electricity from renewable sources. The upgrade can be applied to osmotic power plants, which use potential difference between salty and freshwater to produce electrical current.
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22 September 2011
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Efforts to create working hydrogen cars have largely failed due to the fact that there are not real options when it comes to storing the chemical for prolonged use. Now, investigators in the United States have developed a new nanomaterial that they believe might be able to solve this predicament.
This novel mater... |
14 September 2011
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Mandriva proudly announced last evening, August 28th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable release of the highly anticipated Mandriva Linux 2011 operating system. A day early than expected, but Mandriva Linux 2011 has been finally released and made available for download on mirrors worldwi... |
29 August 2011
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Though it covers three quarters of the planet, and makes up more than 70 percent of our bodies, water is still very little understood in comparison to what experts are discovering it can do. Recent discoveries are beginning to indicate that we don't really know that much about it. While the chemical has a relati... |
19 August 2011
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Researchers at the Stanford University announce an innovation that could bring the widespread adoption of water-splitting technologies one step closer to fruition. Their work eliminates one of the most important challenges facing this area of research. Splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen has been a dream for bot... |
21 June 2011
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Hijacking the natural capabilities of algae and cyanobacteria to help mankind has just gotten a little easier, say experts in the United States. They managed to develop a way of getting bioengineered microorganisms to produce large amounts of hydrogen, which is touted as the fuel of the future. Algae and cyanobacteri... |
24 May 2011
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A group of physicists from the United States announces the development of a new method of producing hydrogen fuel cells. The approach does not require the use of scarce and expensive platinum, and this could significantly contribute to boosting this field of research.Fuel cells have been touted as the next big thing ... |
22 April 2011
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As time passes, it becomes increasingly clear that fossil fuels will no longer be able to cut it in terms of servicing our power needs without destroying Earth. Experts say that hydrogen, the most abundant substance in the Universe, is the chemical of the future. Electricity coming from alternative sources is current... |
1 November 2010
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The six-astronaut crew aboard the International Space Station now has an additional piece of hardware for producing water aboard the orbital facility, which was activated only recently. With the new instrument, concerns about water availability have decreased aboard the space lab, where astronauts are heavily depende... |
26 October 2010
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Purdue University scientists announce the development of a new method for producing hydrogen, which extracts the chemical straight out one of the most abundant resources on the planet, seawater.The approach, which could be used to extract sufficiently-large amounts of hydrogen to run engines on boats and ships, relie... |
8 October 2010
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A team of investigators may have just discovered a class of power-storing materials that may easily exceed the benchmarks set by the DOE in terms of hydrogen storage. The US Department of Energy is intent in funding research into hydrogen storage, because this technology is what will make the cars of the future possi... |
1 October 2010
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Astronomers recently snapped an interesting picture of a very peculiar galaxy, called NGC 4696. The structure contains numerous outstanding features, and experts have a lot to go on in their studies.The team that conducted the observations used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture the image. It was obtained by combi... |
12 August 2010
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Our understanding of the Moon has advanced considerably in the last year. A number of independent missions have discovered that water-ice exists at the lunar poles, and that water molecules are also trapped in regular regolith rocks on its surface. But a new investigation shows that the interior of the Moon is comple... |
6 August 2010
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Over the past few months, an avalanche of scientific studies on Saturn's moon Titan has been dealing with the prospect that the celestial body is harboring primitive life forms. The investigations have been looking at the chemicals present on the natural satellite, at its temperature, topography and geology, and... |
7 June 2010
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A team of investigators from the Brown University, led by expert Vivek Shenoy, a professor of engineering, announces the development of a new method for eliminating defects from graphene. In order for scientists and the electronics industry to take advantage of the amazing physical and chemical properties the single-... |
7 June 2010
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Since July 1, 2004, when the Cassini spacecraft first achieved orbital insertion around Saturn, one of its primary targets has been the peculiar moon Titan. The space rock is covered by a thick, hazy atmosphere, and features lakes of liquid hydrocarbons (such as methane and ethane) at its north and south poles. All t... |
4 June 2010
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Recent data sent back by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory reveal that most of the interstellar gas masses in our galaxy contain the signature of a peculiar chemical. Using its enormous infrared observational power, the largest telescope ever flown to space determined that the gas clou... |
11 May 2010
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A group of scientists has recently developed a new method for producing hydrogen out of water. As the most abundant natural resource on the planet, water can be used for a variety of purposes, albeit only if it's broken down into its basic components, hydrogen and oxygen. In the new experiments, experts managed ... |
3 May 2010
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In a finding that could innovate the field of small electronic devices, experts recently created a new type of fuel cells that only need water and a warm breeze to function. The German research team behind the investigation says that possible applications for their energy-storage device could include powering up smal... |
28 April 2010
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At this point, hydrogen is one of the most important chemicals in the world. It helps produce a wide variety of compounds for the chemical industry. Unfortunately, this is one of the few areas of science where the gas seems to excel, in spite of scientists' best efforts of turning it into a next-generation fuel.... |
14 April 2010
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A group of investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the development of a new method of breaking down water, a critical stage required for turning the chemical into hydrogen fuel. The process is similar to photosynthesis, the technique plants use to break down sunlight and nutrients... |
12 April 2010
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Many scientists around the world have over the past few years attempted to create an artificial leaf based directly on Mother Nature's design. The reason why such a device needs to be obtained is that it would basically convert sunlight into energy using the same process that all vegetation does, and namely phot... |
26 March 2010
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Performing a census of all galaxies is one of the trickiest challenges in astronomy today. Not only do researchers have to look deep into the heart of the Universe, and observe structures that were formed just a billion years after the Big Bang, but they also need to keep an eye out for obscured structures, which gen... |
25 March 2010
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Electric vehicles are at this point our only option, if we are to avert the effects of climate change and global warming. Regular cars produce too much greenhouse gas emissions, and they need to be eliminated soon. But replacing them is not very easy because of the high costs and low driving ranges associated with ba... |
18 March 2010
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An expert has used Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity to prove that spaceships and people will not be able to travel at the speed of light without suffering disastrous consequences. The physicist shows that moving through space at the speed of light would expose both the crew and the hardware to mass... |
8 March 2010
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One of the main reasons why hydrogen-powered vehicles are not the norm in our world today is the fact that batteries and fuel cells are not yet efficient enough at delivering their charge. In addition, reloading them can be a very complicated and time-consuming process, and this is why physicists have been working on... |
3 February 2010
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Since superconducting materials were first discovered, physicists have attempted to instill this amazing property into hydrogen, the most common chemical element in the Universe. Such a breakthrough would pave the way for a massive technological boom, but this has still to be achieved. The obstacle is that turning hy... |
26 January 2010
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According to a former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LANL) expert, it may not be impossible to send cargo to low-Earth orbit (LEO) using a very long and powerful cannon. According to the physicist, a cannon with a barrel about 1.1 kilometers (3,600 feet) long could easily get the job done, at costs far small... |
18 January 2010
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In a first-of-its-kind scientific study, researchers managed to calculate the exact energy of molecular hydrogen, using nothing more than a quantum computer. This is one of the earliest pieces of evidence and proofs-of-concept related to the new technology, which is currently being researched around the world, as an ... |
11 January 2010
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In a finding that could mean the age of electrical vehicles is almost upon us, scientists at the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, near Paris, France, managed to replace the expensive chemical element platinum as the main catalyst used in hydrogen production. This means that, as soon as the method is adopted wo... |
4 December 2009
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Recent astronomical observations seem to point at the fact that the Milky Way, our own galaxy, is currently colliding with a dark, high-velocity cloud of hydrogen gas, known as Smith's Cloud. The formation may be a galaxy in itself, according to the most recent hypothesis, and not a common one. In fact, astronom... |
23 November 2009
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Ithaca, NY-based Widetronix is currently developing a new generation of nuclear batteries, called betavoltaics. The devices are able to produce a steady flow of low current levels, and can last for up to 25 years, experts say. The batteries will soon undergo their testing phase, and the entire process will be supervi... |
17 November 2009
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A group of American researchers, based at the University of Washington (UW), and at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (UNC) has recently managed to take an important step forward in its quest of finding a method of converting methane gas into a liquid fuel. The innovation could see a lot more uses for m... |
23 October 2009
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For many decades, the basic principles of producing rocket fuel have remained the same. Boosters are still fueled by mixtures of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, chemicals that burn hot and fast enough to provide the massive thrust force several tens of tons of metal require to be lifted off the ground. This year, ... |
22 October 2009
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has recently announced that it will award $1.7 million in grant money to the University of Rochester, to support new, alternative, hydrogen-production methods. The university's approach relies on using artificial photosynthesis and carbon nanotubes to get the job done, and this ... |
15 October 2009
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The defunct Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, the Indian space probe that slammed into the Moon earlier this year because of a glitch, is still useful even from beyond the “grave.” The analysis of the data relayed back by the ESA-ISRO instrument SARA aboard the spacecraft has helped experts at the European Spa... |
15 October 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have recently announced the development of a new, innovative type of ceramic that, apparently, has the ability to be a major contributor to improving the hydrogen-fuel cell battery technology and bring about the new era of all-electric cars. The new mat... |
13 October 2009
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The chemicals that are currently used to power up rocket engines generate a number of toxic compounds when they react with each other, and, for a long time, environmentalists have drawn attention to the fact that, when a shuttle launches, for instance, the ozone layer in the area is depleted by the powerful reactions... |
8 October 2009
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The Oakville-based Napa Wine Company is currently the proud owner and tester of an innovative hydrogen production method that may very well represent the first such technique of producing the important chemical that is renewable. The refrigerator-sized generator uses wastewater from the winery, alongside special micr... |
7 October 2009
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For a very long time, researchers have tried, unsuccessfully, to turn hydrogen into metal. This is known to be possible, and, probably, this form of the chemical is present on other planets, most likely gas giants, but it's impossible to obtain the material here on Earth. It has tremendously large pressure requi... |
6 October 2009
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In an announcement it made yesterday, the American space agency NASA said that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe had made an amazing discovery on the Moon – the first signs of water on Earth's natural satellite. After having successfully completed its calibration and fine-tuning stages, the orbi... |
18 September 2009
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded experts at the University of Texas in Austin (UT) a total of $2.5 million, for research related to developing new methods of using sunlight to break up water (H20) and produce hydrogen (H2). The new materials will be used in ... |
17 September 2009
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Scientists at ETH Zurich have recently announced the development of a clever, new way of manipulating hydrogen molecules inside solutions. They are notoriously difficult to steer using electrical fields, because of the symmetrical way that charges are distributed within the ensemble. Details of their accomplishment a... |
15 September 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Hydrogen-based vehicles are, at this point, a fairly uncommon occurrence, mostly because the designs are still plagued by engineering and technical issues. One of these problems is how to recycle hydrogen-containing fuel materials, so that they can be used again. Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LA... |
2 September 2009
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