Ridding Earth of carbon dioxide? Scientists plan to bury it at the bottom of the ocean

An international team of scientists is focusing on mercury from Siberian volcanoes that ended up in sediments in Australia and South Africa to understand how the events of the Late Permian Mass Extinction (LPME) unfolded, according to a press release (Jan .26). The team of scientists includes Professor and Department...

Aiming to extract hydrogen for energy generation, scientists are looking at various ways of production, especially ones that do not strain existing natural resources. In a breakthrough, an international team of scientists from the University of Adelaide has devised a cost-effective method to split seawater to produce hydrogen directly. The research gains significance as earlier methods needed seawater to be treated using an energy-intensive process before splitting it using electrolysis.

A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) has found a new layer under Earth’s crust called "melt," according to a press release. It comprises hot molten rocks and reveals useful insights about our planet's tectonic plate activity. Tectonic plates are giant subterranean rocks that...

The University of Toronto Engineering researchers have developed a unique system that can reduce the energy costs of heating, cooling, and lighting buildings. Their inspiration? The color-changing skin of the humble squid. The multilayered fluidic system can reduce energy costs by optimizing the wavelength, intensity, and dispersion of light transmitted through windows.

In a recent breakthrough by NASA, ten sample tubes, each containing a unique piece of Martian geology, have been left on the Red Planet's surface in anticipation of further investigation here on Earth. On December 21, 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover placed the first-ever titanium tube containing an extraterrestrial rock sample...

It is "designed to use an inherently safe and extremely robust fuel form."

Physicists from Lund University in Sweden developed small solar radiation-collecting antennas, also known as nanowires, that could be better suited to space than existing silicon solar cells. The new nanowires are light and require a small amount of material, meaning they will soon be tested on satellites that already use...

The construction of the world's largest green electrolyzer and hydrogen power plant is a specialty of priority for the South Australian government these days. As reported by Renew Economy, the South Australian government is ready to build a 250 MW hydrogen electrolyzer, which will be 10 times bigger than its counterparts. Sam Crafter, the CEO of the Office of Hydrogen Power in South Australia, will lead the project.

Elon Musk backs wind and solar energies, along with battery storage, to solve the challenge of sustainably powering the Earth. Before adding nuclear fission, geothermal, and hydroelectricity to his response, Musk tweeted,. Though Elon Musk's company Tesla offers both solar and battery-based energy storage solutions, he is also a long-time...

"The Last of Us," one of HBO's hit shows, would introduce us to a different zombie apocalypse. Rather than biological or chemical weapons, people become zombies due to fungus. As reported by Insider, viewers are pondering whether a fungus pandemic may actually occur in light of the novel premise that was first imagined in the video game on which the television program is based.

A green comet called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will make its closest approach to Earth in 50,000 years tomorrow, on February 2. The comet will come within 26.4 million miles of the planet — 110 times the distance to the moon. The last time it flew by Earth, Neanderthals were...

The experimental airplane X-57, developed by Nasa, is due to fly for the first time this year. It has an impressive 14 propellers along its wings and is powered entirely by electricity. This sounds great, considering we have to get off fossil fuels, yet our demand for aviation is growing. But how much closer will Nasa’s plane bring us to this goal?

To reduce the complexities of further space missions, NASA is moving ahead with its SHIELD lander concept, designed to absorb a hard impact during its future touchdowns on various celestial bodies. The current prototype consists of an inverted pyramid of metal rings that absorb impact. In the past, NASA has...

An international team of 50 astronomers discovered an exoplanet named Wolf 1069 b, orbiting a red dwarf star only 31 light-years from Earth, a press statement reveals. The researchers believe the exoplanet may be a rocky world, meaning it would be a particularly rare find — less than 200 of the roughly 5,200 exoplanets discovered so far are rocky.

Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon dioxide and sink it into the deep sea, where it remains for hundreds of years.

As dead as a dodo? Not anymore. Genetic engineering company Colossal Bioscience has received $150 million in new funding to support their "de-extinction" efforts - and along with their ongoing activities of resurrecting the woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger, they've geared up to bring up the extinct Dodo. "The...

A massive filament of solar plasma broke off from the surface of the Sun earlier this month and has now formed a vortex of circular winds on the North Pole, Space.com reported. This is the first time such as vortex has been observed by solar scientists. The Sun is currently...

Astronomers discovered 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter, meaning the total number of moons we know to be orbiting the gas giant now stands at 92. Up until the new discovery, Saturn, with its 83 confirmed moons, was thought to be the planet with the most moons. Jupiter's new moons were...

A collaborative team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and University College London discovered a new type of ice that resembles water more than any other. This type of ice may be vital to understanding the most well-known liquids, according to an institutional press release. Unlike ordinary crystalline ice,...

A team of scientists inserted an alligator gene into the genomes of catfish. The alligator gene called cathelicidin is an antimicrobial gene that plays a role in the animal's innate immune response, providing defense against various pathogens, including bacteria and viruses. Researchers inserted the gene into the part of the...