Science
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Landmark new research shows how global warming is messing with our rainfall
The past century of human-induced warming has increased rainfall variability over 75% of the Earth’s land area – particularly over…
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Interesting Science: Turn steel roofs into an energy-producing device
An organic solar cells consisting of a combination of an organic polymer and PCBM (an organic semiconductor) developed on steel…
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Usage of New Artificial Nanostructures for Infrared Absorption Technologies
A new method to confine and absorb infrared (IR) light with GaN nanostructures can help develop highly efficient infrared absorbers,…
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Why fusion ignition is being hailed as a major breakthrough in fusion – a nuclear physicist explains
The target chamber at the National Ignition Facility has been the site of a number of breakthroughs in fusion physics.…
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How not to solve the climate change problem
This direct air capture plant in Iceland was designed to capture 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Climeworks…
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New material discovered can convert infrared light to renewable energy
Scientists have discovered a novel material that can emit, detect, and modulate infrared light with high efficiency making it useful…
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New materials for carbon capture and utilization could show new light for global warming challenge
Image Source: Ministry of Science & Technology A group of scientists have computationally designed a hybrid material which can absorb…
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Interesting facts about Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dust, and gas that orbit our local star, the sun. Mercury,…
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How do Solar panels work?
During the day, 173 thousand terawatts of solar energy are intercepted by the Earth. That’s ten thousand times more power…
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Udupi Ramachandra Rao, an Indian space scientist
Udupi Ramachandra Rao (10 March 1932 – 24 July 2017) was an Indian space scientist and chairman of the Indian…
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The Metaverse Explained
Metaverse is trending every day after Facebook got rebranded to Meta. But what exactly is Metaverse? Technologies involved in its…
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Blockchain Technology Explained
Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) that was invented to support the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Bitcoin was motivated by an…
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Olympic skiers and snowboarders are competing on 100% fake snow – the science of how it’s made and how it affects performance
Skiers and snowboarders in downhill racing events, like U.S. Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin, often prefer the harder, faster artificial snow over…
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These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works
One ‘mechanical tree’ is about 1,000 times faster at removing carbon dioxide from air than a natural tree. The first…
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Climate Change and its Consequences
This is a simple explanation of Climate Change, based on an article in the New York Times. The average temperature…
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