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Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun's fusion
Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)
In results published Nov. 26 in the journal Nature (and featured on the cover), investigators of the Borexino collaboration report the first detections of this ...
A cool advance in thermoelectric conversion
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
A temperature gradient, or difference, within a material such as a metal or semiconductor can, through a phenomenon known as the Seebeck effect, give rise to an...
Artificial intelligence improves control of powerful plasma accelerators
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
Experiments led by Imperial College London researchers, using the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Central Laser Facility (CLF), showed that an algor...
Upscaling thermochemical energy storage to a commercial level
Dec 11, 2020 (SPX)
"The storage solution is like a "salt battery". It is based on a basic chemical process with a very common material, calcium oxide produced from limestone, with...
Mammal bones inspire design of new sodium-ion battery
Dec 08, 2020 (UPI)
Like the bones of mammals, the new battery structure -- described Tuesday in the journal Applied Physics Review -- combines a spongy inner material with a harde...
China turns on nuclear-powered 'artificial sun'
Dec 04, 2020 (AFP)
The HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China's largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, and scientists hope that the device can potentially ...
Fikile Brushett is looking for new ways to store energy
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
"For a really long time, I really wanted to be a chemist and work for the FBI with chemical warfare agents. That was the goal: to be Nick Cage," recalls Brushet...
New method sees fibers in 3D, uses it to estimate conductivity
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
"We used X-ray microtomography to create 3D images that show the orientation of the fibers," said Francesco Panerai, a faculty member in the Department of Aeros...
Game changer in thermoelectric materials could unlock body-heat powered personal devices
Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)
Current and potential future applications range from low-maintenance, solid-state refrigeration to compact, zero-carbon power generation, which could include sm...
Neutrinos yield first experimental evidence of catalyzed fusion dominant in many stars
Nov 26, 2020 (SPX)
The CNO cycle is the dominant energy source powering stars heavier than the sun, but it had so far never been directly detected in any star, Pocar explains. For...
Researchers decipher structure of promising battery materials
Nov 24, 2020 (SPX)
Thanks to MOFs' extraordinary combination of porosity and conductivity, this finding opened the possibility of new applications in batteries, fuel cells, superc...
Tesla to build 'world's largest' battery plant near Berlin
Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)
Tesla has already started construction on a huge "gigafactory" in a forested area in Gruenheide, south of the German capital, due to open next year. The factory...
Chinese car battery maker eyes 2-bn-euro base in Germany
Nov 17, 2020 (AFP)
The company, a spin-off of Chinese automotive giant Great Wall Motors, said it was investing the equivalent of $2.3 billion to build two factories in the wester...
Finland's battery plans spark environmental fears
Nov 16, 2020 (AFP)
At the immense, 60 square kilometre site, the extracted stone is crushed, heaped into vast mounds and fed with oxygen and water through red hoses, allowing the ...
Time for a new state of matter in high-temperature superconductors
Nov 13, 2020 (SPX)
In this sense, every point inside the bucket is equivalent. Once the water freezes, however, the water molecules occupy well-defined positions in space. Thus, n...
Turning heat into power with efficient organic thermoelectric material
Nov 12, 2020 (SPX)
An international team led by Jan Anton Koster, Professor of Semiconductor Physics at the University of Groningen, has now produced an n-type organic semiconduct...
Power-free system harnesses evaporation to keep items cool
Nov 12, 2020 (SPX)
Most people wouldn't think of wearing a camel-hair coat on a hot summer's day, but in fact many desert-dwelling people do tend to wear heavy outer garments, for...
Improving high-energy lithium-ion batteries with carbon filler
Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)
The optimum battery design involves thick electrode structures. This enhances the energy density, but the design suffers from poor lithium-ion transport, a key ...
Pushing the envelope with fusion magnets
Nov 09, 2020 (SPX)
David Fischer remembers growing up in Vienna, Austria, imagining how best to cool the furnace used to contain the hot soup of ions known as plasma in a fusion d...
New kind of superconductivity discovered
Nov 09, 2020 (SPX)
If you're like most people, there are three states of matter in your everyday life: solid, liquid and gas. You might be familiar with a fourth state of matter c...
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