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Households that control their central heating more economically will cut costs, but there's another simpler way that might save you over £100 a year.

US Geological Survey researchers say there could be 5.6 trillion metric tonnes of hydrogen in rocks and underground reservoirs

For decades, scientists have held onto the idea that Venus may be home to alien life. But a study has dashed those hopes - as scientists claim Earth's 'evil twin' has never had liquid water on its surface.

Relays are extensively utilized in accelerators, satellites, rockets, and various advanced technology sectors. They play crucial roles in signal transmission, long-distance control implementation, and protection circuits, directly impacting the safety of aerospace and defense equipment systems. The selection of electrical contact material in a relay is crucial for its performance.

A team of researchers has achieved a breakthrough in the development of anion exchange membranes (AEMs). They designed a novel spiro-branched polymeric membrane that incorporates highly connected sub-nanometer microporous ion channels, showing exceptional performance in flow battery applications. The team included researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of…

Just when you think we've solved chlorofluorocarbons

As we draw closer to the election, both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have said that they will prioritise growth. So with both main parties talking at least nominally about wealth creation, the important things to consider are precisely how wealth is created and who is most likely to deliver it.  The Growth Commission (which […]

Hundreds of Imperial College London students, staff, and alumni have called on the university to fully divest from fossil fuels

Dubbed the 'alien hunter', astrophysicist Avi Loeb claimed that ongoing scientific research at CERN in Geneva may have created dimensions for aliens to travel through

Ammonia (NH3) is an important molecule with many applications. The end product of the famed Haber–Bosch process, it is commonly synthesized to capture nitrogen for fertilizers, and is used for refrigeration, in cleaning products, and in the production of pharmaceuticals. Recently, this modest molecule has also attracted interest as a potential resource for addressing one of today's most pressing challenges—the need…

A simple technique that uses small amounts of energy could boost the efficiency of some key chemical processing reactions, by up to a factor of 100,000, MIT researchers report. These reactions are at the heart of petrochemical processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and many other industrial chemical processes.

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Icy weather can cause pipes to freeze and sometimes burst - here's how British Gas says you can prevent it from happening.

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Over the past decade, generative deep learning models have been applied successfully to the design of novel drug molecules, organic synthesis routes, and functional molecules tailored for electronic/optoelectronic devices. This is largely enabled by the availability of SMILES representation for molecules—an invertible and invariant representation well-suited for natural language processing models like recurrent…

Water is often the go-to resource for heat transfer, being used in large-scale cooling operations like data centers that power the internet and nuclear power plants that power cities. Discovering dynamic phenomena to make water-based heat transfer more energy and cost-efficient is the ongoing work of Jonathan Boreyko, associate professor and John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow in mechanical engineering.

Ultra-short laser pulses may allow us to measure entanglement in a way that answers questions about the quantum nature of the vacuum

Using agar media suspended in pipette tips and a standard camera, the geometric viability assay provides a user-friendly and scalable update to standard colony-forming-unit-count approaches.

Ethylene is a chemical widely used as a feedstock for producing polymers and industrial chemicals. Oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) is a promising, energy-efficient way of creating ethylene from natural gas by reacting methane with oxygen. However, the method comes with its downsides. Too much oxygen can reduce product yields by converting ethylene into carbon dioxide.

The practical application of high-pressure metastable materials is hindered by severe synthesis condition, poor yield, and mostly vanishing phase and phenomena after decompressing. The scaled-up capture of these metastable states to ambient pressure is the key point but remains a challenge.