Energy efficiency of robots modeled along studies on ants and snakes
The nature is the main source of inspiration for each important project. The Georgia Tech University has received a grant from National Science Foundation...
The biodiversity crisis: Worse than climate change
Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world’s species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of...
Climate balancing: sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates
Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team...
Europe’s birds and climate change
For the past 20 years, the climate in Europe has been getting warmer.
Species of bird and butterfly which thrive in cool temperatures therefore need...
Hydrogen and graphene
Graphene has engendered high expectations whereof its extreme properties depend on the fact that it consists of a single sheet of carbon atoms.
However the...
The new ice age could start in the next millennium
Research shows that a new ice age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2...
US’s renewable energy versus nuclear power
According to the information, in first nine months of 2011 the whole spectrum of renewable energy produced fewer than 12 percent of United States energy...
Coffee to produce renewable electricity
The Energy and Environmental Research Center – EERC at the University of North Dakota announced that it is “leading a project to develop an...
How Fuel Cells working on the nanoscale
For the first time, physical chemistry reactions in a fuel cell can now be observed and described in detail on the nanoscale.
This innovation is...