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PV Module Reliability Workshop Arrives at Loughborough University

This year’s PV Module Reliability workshop is being held at Loughborough University’s Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) in Leicestershire,…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Archaea: Unique Life Forms of the Deep Sea

Many strange creatures live in the deep sea, but few are odder than archaea, primitive single-celled bacteria-like microorganisms. Archaea go to great lengths…

Physics & Astronomy

Super-Earths: Did Our Solar System Once Host These Giants?

Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of super-Earths–planets larger than Earth…

Life & Chemistry

From leaf to root – messenger RNAs are long-distance travellers

Plants take up water and salts from the soil and they produce sugars via photosynthesis. These nutrients need to be transported to growing tissues adjacent to…

Earth Sciences

Atlantic Ocean Overturning Current Slows Down: New Evidence

Scientists now found evidence for a slowdown of the overturning – multiple lines of observation suggest that in recent decades, the current system has been…

Physics & Astronomy

Colliding Stars Reveal Secrets of 17th Century Explosion

Some of the age’s greatest astronomers, including Hevelius — the father of lunar cartography — and Cassini, carefully documented the appearance of a new star…

Life & Chemistry

New Strategic Plan for Birds Over the Great Lakes

Every year, many bird researchers catch warblers, finches, thrushes and other feathered travelers to better understand their routes and migration patterns. A…

Machine Engineering

An 'octopus' robot with eight limbs developed to clear rubble in Fukushima, Japan

On March 13th, a remote controlled four-armed, four-wheeled crawler robot designed to clear rubble and save lives in areas with complex terrain was unveiled at…

Life & Chemistry

Batteries Designed for Longevity in Green Energy Shift

Electrochemical devices are crucial to a green energy revolution in which clean alternatives replace carbon-based fuels. This revolution requires conversion…

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering a reaction’s secrets

Experimental analysis and computer simulations reveal new insights into the process by which ethanol produced from waste biomass can be converted into hydrogen…

Machine Engineering

New Apparatus Simplifies Fibre Sheet Dispensing Process

The conventional preparation of fibre sheets from fibre rolls has been a problem in many factories in Malaysia, as workers manually unroll the fibre rolls and…

Earth Sciences

Global Ice Ages: New Study Links Glacier Movement to Climate Factors

The researchers found that glacier movement in the Southern Hemisphere is influenced primarily by sea surface temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide rather…

Earth Sciences

Volcanic Eruption: Did It End the Neanderthals’ Existence?

The Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in Italy 40,000 years ago was one of the largest volcanic cataclysms in Europe and injected a significant amount of…

Physics & Astronomy

New approach uses 'twisted light' to increase efficiency of quantum cryptography systems

Researchers at the University of Rochester and their collaborators have developed a way to transfer 2.05 bits per photon by using “twisted light.” This…

Environmental Conservation

Researching Tiger DNA: Nova Southeastern University Breakthrough

Tigers – they are some of nature's most beautiful, deadly and endangered species. In fact, living tigers are severely endangered in fragmented geographic areas…

Earth Sciences

NASA Studies Tropical Cyclone Nathan Over Cape York Peninsula

On March 19, from at 1:17 to 2:49 UTC, before landfall, the RapidScat instrument that flies aboard the International Space Station studied Nathan's winds….

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