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Future Combat Air Continues to Drive Economic Advance Across the UK

Seven companies representing the breadth of innovation across the UK have signed agreements to progress opportunities to work on future combat air concepts and underpinning technologies across Team Tempest.

21 Jul 2020

Venezuela’s Oil and Gas Sector Sees Worst Crisis During 2020, Says GlobalData

Venezuela’s oil and gas sector was already caught in a vicious cycle well before the COVID-19 outbreak created a world economic crisis.

21 Jul 2020

Q.E.D. MicroPurge® MP25 Simplifies Low-Flow Groundwater Sampling

Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc., highlights that its MicroPurge MP25 Purge Stabilization Flow Cell system makes consistent low-flow groundwater sampling easy and accurate.

From QED Environmental Systems, Inc. 21 Jul 2020

Excess of Crude Supply Already Suppressed from US Market, Says GlobalData

Following Energy Information Administration’s release of official weekly data on stocks, demand and supply of US crude oil and refined products;

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Accurately Measure, Characterize Single, Twisted Nanoparticle in Lab

For the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterised in a lab, taking scientists one vital step closer to a time when medicines will be produced and blended on a microscopic scale.

21 Jul 2020

First-Ever Non-Cuttable Material Developed Based on Shells, Grapefruits

Engineers have taken their inspiration from shells and grapefruits to create what they say is the first manufactured non-cuttable material.

21 Jul 2020

New Soft, Solid Electrolytes Suppress Dendrites in Batteries

In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that can power electric vehicles for hundreds of miles on a single charge, scientists have endeavored to replace the graphite anodes currently used in EV batteries with lithium metal anodes.

21 Jul 2020

New Technology Could Help Store Green Surplus Energy in Underground Water Balloons

With a grant of almost DKK 5 million from the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme, EUDP, under Danish Energy Agency, work is about to begin on building a 100 sqm test facility to demonstrate new technology that stores green surplus energy in giant underground water balloons.

21 Jul 2020

New Conversion System Helps Obtain CO to Achieve Artificial Photosynthesis

A research team, led by Dr. Hyung-Suk Oh and Dr. Woong Hee Lee of the Clean Energy Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, working in cooperation with the Technische Universität Berlin, announced that they had developed a nano-sized, coral-shaped silver catalyst electrode and large-area, high-efficiency carbon dioxide conversion system, which can be used to obtain carbon monoxide.

21 Jul 2020

Study Enables Highly Precise Estimation of All Three Components of Magnetic Field

Quantum magnetometry, one of the most important applications in quantum metrology, aims to measure the magnetic field in highest precision.

21 Jul 2020

New Technique Could Accelerate Search for Suitable Materials for Novel Batteries

What happens inside a battery at the microscopic level during charging and discharging processes.

21 Jul 2020

Bubble Analysis Could Help Solve Problems in Food Processing Applications

Some of the fastest video cameras ever developed have been used by KAUST researchers to clarify how molecular-scale changes to water surfaces may impact the performance of industrial-scale purifications.

21 Jul 2020

New Smart Nanosheet Helps Better Understand Diseases and Their Treatment

An interdisciplinary team from Frankfurt and Jena has developed a kind of bait with which to fish protein complexes out of mixtures.

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Use Oxygen to Upconvert Low-Energy Light into High-Energy Light

Scientists in Australia and the United States have been able to 'upconvert' low energy light into high energy light, which can be captured by solar cells, in a new way, with oxygen the surprise secret ingredient.

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Create Next-Gen Solar Modules with High Efficiency, Stability

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have created next-generation solar modules with high efficiency and good stability.

21 Jul 2020