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New Zealand introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
New Zealand's long-awaited zero carbon bill will create sweeping changes to the management of emissions, setting…
Reversible chemistry clears path for safer batteries
Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) have taken a…
When the machines come for government jobs, will efficiency crush equity?
Automation feels inevitable.
How Earth’s continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s.
Probing battery hotspots for safer energy storage
Researchers are striving to make tomorrow's batteries charge faster and store more energy. But these conveniences…
AFRL achieves ‘shocking’ materials technology breakthrough
The Air Force Research Laboratory, along with research partners at Los Alamos National Laboratory, are working…
A new view of wintertime air pollution
The processes that create ozone pollution in the summer can also trigger the formation of wintertime…
New clues about how ancient galaxies lit up the universe
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe's earliest galaxies were brighter than…
Saving energy in the production of chemicals
Whether in agriculture, industry or private households, chemicals are needed everywhere. However, their production requires a…