Hydrogen

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft captured an estimated 2 pounds of material from the asteroid Bennu, where it recently landed. The spacecraft collected so much alien dust and rock, in fact, that it couldn't close its sample-collection tool. So mission controllers raced to stow the sample to stop asteroid dust from leaking…

Not long ago, Joe Davis, the “artist-scientist” in George Church’s genetics lab at Harvard Medical School, was in Brittany, France. The region is known for thousand-year-old salterns that produce fleur de sel, or flower of salt—salt that forms as seawater evaporates. Davis was there sampling these brightly colored ponds with…

News Clint Chan Tack Sunday 25 October 2020Phillip Julien. - TT's involvement in the hydrogen strategy, which is being advanced by the European Commission (EC), could lead to a revitalisation of petrochemical industries at the Point Lisas Industrial Estate. This was the view expressed by NewGen managing director Phillip Julien…

Airbus' AlbatrossONE. Airbus Airbus created the AlbatrossONE, a small-scale remote-controlled aircraft with wingtips that can flap like a bird during turbulence to better handle the strong gusts of winds. These hinged, flapping wingtips help reduce drag, therefore saving fuel and consequently decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. Airbus has completed two flight…

No one has yet found the first stars. They're hypothesized to have formed about 100 million years after the Big Bang out of universal darkness from the primordial gases of hydrogen, helium, and trace light metals. These gases cooled, collapsed, and ignited into stars up to 1,000 times more massive…

A new future for polyethyleneMost current plastic recycling involves chopping up the waste and repurposing it in materials with less stringent engineering requirements than the original application. Chemical decomposition at the molecular level could, in principle, lead to higher-value products. However, the carbon-carbon bonds in polyethylene, the most common plastic,…

There is just something obviously reasonable about the following notion: If all life is built from atoms that obey precise equations we know—which seems to be true—then the existence of life might just be some downstream consequence of these laws that we haven’t yet gotten around to calculating. This is…

The new Portland International Airport main terminal design rendering. Port of Portland The Port of Portland has unveiled the design plans for the new main terminal in the Portland International Airport. The design — created by architectural firm ZGF — includes aspects of nature throughout the interior. When the project…

IMAGE: as-indacenoterrylene is a bowl-shaped compound made only of hydrogen and carbon atoms that can absorb near infrared light. view more  Credit: Norihito Fukui Nagoya University researchers have synthesized a unique molecule with a surprising property: it can absorb near infrared light. The molecule is made only of hydrogen and carbon…

Scientists have created a mystery material that seems to conduct electricity without any resistance at temperatures of up to about 15 °C. That’s a new record for superconductivity, a phenomenon usually associated with very cold temperatures. The material itself is poorly understood, but it shows the potential of a class of superconductors…