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Earth Sciences

NASA Tracks Extra-Tropical Storm Kate in North Atlantic

On November 12 at 4 a.m. EST the National Hurricane Center issued the last advisory on Extra-Tropical Cyclone Kate, located several hundred miles…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultra-Thin Microwave Absorber Enhances Radar Cloaking Potential

Microwave absorbers are a kind of material that can effectively absorb incident microwave energy to make objects invisible to radar; therefore they are…

Materials Sciences

Tackling Strong Odour Challenges of Mercaptans in Innovation

Mercaptans or thiols are a special class of organic compounds that contains sulfur functional group, RSH. Various sulfur compounds are highly demanded in the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Modeling a Stable Grid with 100% Renewable Energy

Researchers model electricity grid with 100 per cent renewable energy

Earth Sciences

Sea Ice’s Key Role in the Arctic Methane Cycle Explained

The ice-covered Arctic Ocean is a more important factor concerning the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere than previously assumed….

Earth Sciences

Fossilized Bees: Insights into Pollen Collection Habits

The paleontologists studied fossilized bees from two different locations: the Messel Pit near Darmstadt and Eckfeld Maar in the Vulkaneifel. Both are former…

Technology Offerings

Non-Destructive Energy Measurement for Ion Beams

Ion beams are applied in many fields, such as medicine, semiconductor industry and basic research.
The invention intoduced here relates to a measurement device and a method to determine the energy of accelerated ions without destructing them.

Earth Sciences

Titan Tackles San Andreas Fault: Innovations in Earthquake Safety

The San Andreas Fault system, which runs almost the entire length of California, is prone to shaking, causing about 10,000 minor earthquakes each year just in…

Process Engineering

Nanopores in Molybdenum Disulfide: A New Way to Desalinate Water

The material, a nanometer-thick sheet of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) riddled with tiny holes called nanopores, is specially designed to let high volumes of…

Life & Chemistry

Oregon Study Links Key Gut Microbes to Better Health

University of Oregon scientists have found that strength in numbers doesn't hold true for microbes in the intestines. A minority population of the right type…

Physics & Astronomy

New Super H-Mode Enhances Fusion Power Efficiency

Meet “Super H mode,” a newly discovered state of tokamak plasma that could sharply boost the performance of future fusion reactors. This new state raises the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Form of Crystalline Matter Discovered by Researchers

Dust is everywhere: under the bed, on the stairs and even inside of plasmas. A team of researchers from Auburn University, the University of Iowa and the…

Information Technology

Quantum dots made from fool's gold boost battery performance

However, a group of researchers at Vanderbilt University report in the Nov. 11 issue of the journal ACS Nano that they have found a way to overcome this…

Earth Sciences

Declining snowpacks may cut many nations' water

Gradual melting of winter snow helps feed water to farms, cities and ecosystems across much of the world, but this resource may soon be critically imperiled….

Materials Sciences

Discover New Polymeric Carbon Nitrides for Organic Electronics

Polymeric carbon nitrides are organic compounds synthesised to form a yellow powder of a myriad of nanocrystals. The crystalline structure resembles that of…

Earth Sciences

Unveiling Earth’s Plate Tectonics: How It All Began

Our planet Earth is the only planet in the Solar System that possesses Plate Tectonics. The Earth’s surface is in a constant state of change; the tectonic…

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