Energy efficiency in manufacturing processes has emerged as a paramount concern in the drive towards sustainable industrial practices. Recent advances have sought to reduce not only operational costs ...

This image shows a computer simulation of a fluid stream atomizing, or breaking down, into fine droplets. Image courtesy of Baskar Ganapathysubramanian and Adarsh Krishnamurthy. Iowa State engineers ...

Researchers take inspiration from natural chemical processes based on hydrogenase and photosystem II, to produce a single metal catalyst with both fuel cell and solar cell functionalities. The ...

Researchers from the Freunberger group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have unveiled pivotal insights into the redox chemistry of oxygen and reactive oxygen species (ROS).

Understanding the sun from afar isn't easy. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft -- which orbits Mercury, and so is as close as 28 million miles from the sun versus Earth's 93 million miles -- is near enough ...

Almost all energy-generation processes require significant amounts of water. However, few energy-planning tools account for these needs. As part of its Thirsty Energy Initiative, the World Bank is ...

Imagine the ultimate version of a toy Universe: it's expanding, it's full of material, and through it all, there's one photon ⁠— or quantum of light ⁠— that we keep track of and forbid from ...

Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. The sun is our most powerful source of energy. Sunlight, or solar ...

If you have a Universe full of stuff — whether that's atoms, dark matter, radiation, neutrinos, or anything else — it's virtually impossible to keep it static. The fabric of your Universe, at least in ...