Technology

Running diesel engines and gas turbines at high pressure to boost power output and efficiency is harmful for the environment. Burning fuel at high pressure can significantly change the soot particles that are produced, William Roberts from the KAUST Clean Combustion Research Center and his team have shown. Studying the factors affecting soot formation should […]

German economy minister Peter Altmaier said Tuesday Berlin would provide one billion euros ($1.3 billion) of funding for electric car battery production by 2021, as talks with companies reach an advanced stage. “In the coming months we want to create the conditions for batteries to be produced on a mass scale in Europe,” Altmaier said […]

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have filed a provisional patent application on a new copper compound that can be used to purify ethylene for use as a raw material in the production of plastics such as polyethylene or PVC, as well as other industrial compounds. Ethylene is produced from crude oil but […]

A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than existing versions. The approach could also overcome some of the inherent physical limitations that have been slowing progress in this area until now. Researchers at MIT and at Brookhaven National […]

Sealed in a vault beneath a duke’s former pleasure palace among the sycamore-streaked forests west of Paris sits an object the size of an apple that determines the weight of the world. Forged against a backdrop of scientific and political upheaval following the French Revolution, a single, small cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy has laid largely […]

Large-scale, advanced high-performance computing, often called supercomputing, is essential to solving both complex and large questions. Everything from answering metaphysical queries about the origins of the universe to discovering cancer-fighting drugs to supporting high-speed streaming services, requires processing huge amounts of data. But storage platforms essential for these advanced computer systems have been stuck in […]

In physics, it is well-known that electrons behave very differently in three dimensions, two dimensions or one dimension. These behaviours give rise to different possibilities for technological applications and electronic systems. But what happens if electrons live in 1.58 dimensions – and what does it actually mean? Theoretical and experimental physicists at Utrecht University investigated […]

With energy demands rising, researchers at Penn State Behrend and the University of Tabriz, Iran, have completed an algorithm—or approach—to design more efficient wind farms, helping to generate more revenue for builders and more renewable energy for their customers. “Wind energy is on the rise, and not just in the US,” said Mohammad Rasouli, assistant […]

One of the UK’s “Big Six” energy companies has gone a dark shade of green. ScottishPower—one of the UK’s so called “Big Six” energy utilities—has long been at the forefront of wind energy development. But while it was once considered just one part of a wider, more conventional energy portfolio, renewable energy has become so […]

Although the Mercosur region is home to a considerable amount of lithium – a main ingredient for electric vehicle (EV) batteries – it is currently extracted from salt flats in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile which are not the best of quality, EV expert Adalberto Maluf told Global Fleet. “The condition of the lithium is okay […]