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Researchers took cues from butterflies to design thin film solar cells that can better absorb light. The rose butterfly, common to India, has soft black wings that help keep the insect warm with the sun's heat. Mimicking...

Do you find yourself left with an abundance of leftover fruit from apple-picking each fall? New research has figured out what to do with all those rotten apples by turning them into a hard carbon material to fuel sodium-ion...

German researchers have managed to “crack” the code for breaking down methane from natural gas without creating carbon dioxide, and in the process dealt a blow to climate change...

Mountains of E-waste are dumped every year. Mining for the elements used in electronics manufacture causes huge swathes of land to be destroyed, so it’s exciting to hear that young researchers at Karlsruhe Institute for...

Today's wind turbines are big and heavy, which makes them costly to build and maintain - especially when they are installed offshore. To make turbines more efficient, the European Union just launched SUPRAPOWER, a four-year...

Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Bayer have developed a seismic wallpaper that can hold up building walls during earthquakes. The system, called EQ-Top, is a glass fiber fabric that can help keep mason...

The speculative press release below is from the University of Gothenburg.  After having a paper published earlier this year  in Science that argues climate sensitivity might be lower than the IPCC stated in AR4, we have...

Reading this, especially with the climate doom opening paragraph, I’m left with the idea that it will be used as a tool to limit modern farming practices by going after yield enhancing chemical fertilzers...