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Developed by chemists at MIT, a new catalyst material provides key insight into the design requirements for producing liquid fuels from carbon dioxide, the leading component of greenhouse gas emissions. The findings suggest a route toward…

Earth’s magnetic field constantly deflects incoming supersonic particles from the sun. These particles are disturbed in regions just outside of Earth’s magnetic field – and some are reflected into a turbulent region called the foreshock.…

Synthetic biology allows scientists to design genetic circuits that can be placed in cells, giving them new functions such as producing drugs or other useful molecules. However, as these circuits become more complex, the genetic components…

A UCF scientist has developed filaments that harvest and store the sun's energy - and can be woven into textiles, after being inspired by Marty McFly's self-lacing Nikes in Back to the Future Part II. The breakthrough would essentially…

Weather permitting, on Sunday, November 13th and Monday, November 14th, you’ll be treated to a showstopper supermoon that will be the closest moon to Earth in almost 70 years. We won’t see a supermoon like this until 2034, so this is a…

The world's biggest bitcoin wallet provider will "pretty easily" have its biggest ever month for activity in November, following a surge in use after Donald Trump's shock election victory in the US. Peter Smith, the cofounder and CEO…

Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the…

Audi cars allegedly fooled environmental regulators by emitting less carbon-dioxide on a testing mount than the cars allowed themselves to spew when on the road, the weekly German paper Bild am Sonntag reports. It’s the same trick that…

More renewables is all good, right? Not quite. Normally, wind farms get a bad rap for deaths of birds and bats. And they have been the suspected cause of increased sightings of other species such as shore crabs (which could lead to…