Project, the University of Bologna will be developing a new electric thruster for rockets that is propelled by water being turned into plasma through electrolysis. While prototypes of water-powered ...

A group of scientists has developed special CO2-derived carbon nanotubes that can generate sustained plasma almost instantly when exposed to microwaves from a standard microwave oven. Plasma is the ...

The phase and the group velocity of light propagating in conventional optical media cannot exceed the speed of light in ...

Earlier this week we broke down the complexities of mixed-phase precipitation forecasting.Within that we briefly touched on a key component to that complexity w ...

With an electric current and hydrogen peroxide, researchers at Penn State have developed a more efficient way to extract ...

I was fascinated by the idea of jet packs when I was a kid. They were sci-fi magic, and the idea that you could strap into an ...

Aerosol light absorption plays a crucial role in regulating the heat balance between the atmosphere and Earth's surface. This happens through two main mechanisms: the aerosol direct effect, where ...

The Cabinet – not PetroSA – announced in December 2023 that Russia’s Gazprombank had been selected to restart Mossel Bay’s gas-to-liquids refinery. The choice of a sanctioned Russian bank ...

Solid-state batteries differ from lithium-ion batteries, which are the most common type of rechargeable battery and use liquid or gel electrolytes. Relative to lithium-ion batteries, solid-state ...

Why are the UK's gas stocks so low? Going into the fall, Britain's gas storage facilities were only a maximum of two-thirds full, compared to Germany and Poland, which had filled their tanks to ...