Nottinghamshire picked by British minister famed for top hats and love of imperial measures UK business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has proposed building the UK’s first nuclear fusion power plant in a center of industrial decline.…
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Lees meerMangalyaan orbiter launched for just $74m, lasted a magnificent 16 times longer than expected India’s Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission has ended.…
Lees meerWait, wait, hear us out Prosthetic teeth turn out to be effective carriers of vibrations, making them suitable as potential hearing aids.…
Lees meerIARPA unleashes TEI-REX to better track nuclear sources The research arm of US intelligence has begun investigating methods for spotting low doses of ionizing radiation to better protect American service personnel and provide evidence of nuclear tec…
Lees meerWorld's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy The world's largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) has been connected to the grid in Dalian, China, where it was built using technology patented in the United Sta…
Lees meerResearchers mince 'digital gold' claims with study showing cryptocurrency's impact Far from being the "digital gold" some claim, Bitcoin's relative climate change impact is greater than the beef industry, and over seven times more than actual gold m…
Lees meerTelescope hasn't been superseded by JWST, so why not try to keep it going? Though it may have been eclipsed by the launch of its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, long-lived Hubble continues to gaze deep into the universe.…
Lees meerPack your bags, we're off to huddle on some alien ice caps. It beats Earth Liquid water may be lurking beneath the southern polar ice cap on Mars, according to fresh evidence reported in Nature Astronomy.…
Lees meerYou even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done The US Department of Energy has announced plans to award up to $50 million in funds to private businesses to develop a working fusion pilot plant (FPP) by the 2030s. …
Lees meerCurb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too In a global first, wind and solar energy combined to generate more than 10 percent of the world's electricity in 2021 yet coal-fired power plant emissions jumped to new highs in the same period too…
Lees meerProject with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries marks shift in policy since Fukushima disaster over a decade ago Japan is about to change course on energy policy following the Fukushima disaster in 2011 with a focus on developing safer nuclear reactors.…
Lees meerYou wouldn't make this the butt of any jokes, right? Video Inspired by plants and fungi, scientists have devised a method to help so-called soft robots travel along tricky pathways by growing as they move.…
Lees meerAnd if and when it does, role lacks Cabinet position, complain Lords The UK's position in science and innovation is under threat from a lack of government focus and financial investment according to a House of Lords committee.…
Lees meerFun fact: The mission is named after the Latin word for 'delayed' NASA's Moon-ward Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will not be blasting off from Earth until late October at the earliest, after the vehicle was rolled back to its hangar to shelter fr…
Lees meerTask failed successfully Video A spacecraft smashed head-on into a 170-metre-wide asteroid named Dimorphos on Monday in a first-of-its-kind experiment demonstrating how we could one day potentially divert a hazardous object on a collision course wi…
Lees meerIt'll reduce emissions a bunch, but stress the grid even more First it came for internal combustion engines, and now the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is proposing a phase out of natural gas water heaters and furnaces – another first among U…
Lees meerAgency watching forecast before making decision to rollback the SLS, but not doing so would be risky Rocket fans will have to stow the popcorn once again because NASA's rescheduled launch of Artemis I this week has been stood down.…
Lees meerWe chat to the scientists involved in first-of-its-kind mission Feature On Monday, September 26 at 2314 UTC, scientists at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in America, and those monitoring ground-based telescopes across our pl…
Lees meerWasp-like technique could be used to 3D-print structures in that remote place you plan to retire in Flying robots could be the answer to the challenge of building structures in remote locations or hard-to-reach spots, according to engineers who have…
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