A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what Empa researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, ...

An international research team has concluded that the Sikkim flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023 was caused by some 14.7 million cubic meters of frozen moraine material collapsing into ...

Nano-cages made of linalool and sulfur increase the service life and storage capacity of sodium-sulfur batteries. Lavender oil could help solve a problem in the energy transition. A team from the Max ...

A research team at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has developed a new sustainable process that can be used to improve the electrochemical performance of lithium-ion batteries. Initial tests of ...

74% of billionaire wealth in the EU is derived from inheritance, monopoly power or crony connections. Richest 1% in 12 EU countries extracted €84.4 billion from the Global South in 2023. Oxfam ...

In 2024, solar generated 11% of EU electricity, overtaking coal which fell below 10% for the first time, according to the European Electricity Review published today by think tank Ember. EU gas ...

Whether a state emerges as a winner or loser from a military conflict is significantly determined by its financial resources. This has been shown for the first time in a new empirical analysis of the ...

Will President Trump really deport millions of people from the USA by force? In his presence, the Protestant Bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, warned him against doing so in the name of ...

New study on the impact of climate extremes on (future) water security. Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the ...

In conventional agriculture, synthetic chemical pesticides are used in various crops such as arable farming, vegetable growing and viticulture. A study by the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, ...

Positive transformations have always existed. Otherwise we would still be living in trees. What is relatively new is the transformation from fire to electricity, from combustion to light. This is the ...

Companies and consumers have high hopes that electricity prices will return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the departure from using Russian gas, ...