Hot spots of mercury pollution in aquatic sediments and soils can contaminate local food webs and threaten ecosystems, but cleaning them up can be expensive and destructive. Researchers from... Read more
Researchers report that wood-biochar supercapacitors can produce as much power as today’s activated-carbon supercapacitors at a fraction of the cost – and with environmentally friendly bypro... Read more
Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in l... Read more
Enable a new generation of high-performance portable electronics and solar cells You are this close to the breakthrough energy storage technology of the next millennium if you a) have a comp... Read more
Chen says it should be capable of storing hydrogen under moderate pressure With hydrogen atoms consisting of just a single electron and single proton, its gaseous form made up of two hydroge... Read more
Every year, the world consumes approximately 15 terawatts of power, according to some estimates. Since the amount of annual harvestable solar energy has been estimated at 50 terawatts, stude... Read more
Researchers at the University of Abertay Dundee (UAD) have discovered that activated carbon cloth is very effective at filtering harmful compounds out of air and liquids. The material was fi... Read more
Bottled water might seem like a very innocuous, ecologically-friendly beverage, but it does have its dark side – it has been estimated that 1.5 million barrels of oil are used annually for t... Read more