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The world's first ship powered by wood pellets
Ships running by burning wood pellets can reduce carbon emissions by 22% compared to ships using fossil fuels.
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The danger behind the aurora beauty of solar storms
Last weekend, many people in many parts of the world just needed to look up at the sky to see colorful aurora displays.
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New research revives the potential for warp engines, helping to travel into space faster than the speed of light
The research report shows a new version of the warp engine, without using materials that science cannot yet
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Smart buildings cool without using electricity
Snøhetta's Vertikal Nydalen building has comfortable temperatures all year round thanks to unique design solutions.
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Is the idea of using the Sun as a signal amplifier in 'The Three-Body Problem' really feasible?
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Greece built the largest smart city in Europe
Ellinikon City will integrate modern technology in waste, water and energy management, bringing many economic benefits.
Oceanography
Air-powered electricity storage system at 700m deep seabed
BaroMar's system uses excess electricity to compress and direct air to tanks on the seabed, storing it there until needed.
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Miniature reactors - a solution for powering lunar bases
Astronauts living on the Moon will need a lot of energy, but they cannot carry fuel supplies with them.
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Launching mirror clusters helps increase solar power production on Earth
Reflect Orbital, a startup in California, wants to launch a cluster of mirrors into orbit to transmit sunlight to solar power plants to increase electricity production a…
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Finding the origin of cosmic particles that pass through our bodies billions of times per second
About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created in the Big Bang, these primordial neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe,…
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Why does NASA monitor the universe with a device with 36 pixels?
NASA scouts the universe with a device with a 36-pixel sensor, a truly unbelievable number in an era when normal smartphones can take photos containing tens of millions…
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French artificial sun sets plasma record
A reactor in southern France creates and maintains hot plasma of 50 million degrees Celsius for 6 minutes continuously, reaching an important milestone that helps make f…
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The world's first super fast charging battery for eVTOL
The two companies cooperate to develop batteries for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), which take only a few minutes to charge from 30% to 80%.
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Why will the Earth never be 'swallowed' if one day the Sun turns into a black hole?
According to scientists' calculations, the scary hypothesis may happen.
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Launch of the world's first giant molten salt 'battery'
The newly inaugurated molten salt green energy storage facility in Denmark is like a giant and extremely efficient battery.