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UK firm overcomes key barrier to fusion energy scale-up with new fuel
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (384+ words) First Light has now completed detailed studies validating the production capacity of the tritium breeding system in its innovative FLARE inertial fusion power plant. A British company has validated the high tritium breeding performance of the FLARE concept, addressing a…...
World's largest CO2 methanation test facility goes online in Japan
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (533+ words) The facility successfully injected synthetic methane into a natural gas pipeline on February 20. Two Japanese companies have recently launched one of the world's largest-class CO2 methanation test plant, which is expected to supply the annual gas needs of approximately 10,000 households. The…...
US grants clean air permit for world's largest 11-GW private power grid
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (529+ words) The nation's second largest Clean Air Permit confirms compliance with state and federal emissions standards. The US has paved the way for the world's largest 11-gigawatt private power grid after authorities in Texas recently approved a six-gigawatt (GW) Clean Air…...
Family discovers world's biggest coral that has size of a soccer pitch
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (549+ words) The colony stretches about 364 feet long, about the size of a soccer field, covering more than 4,000 square meters. In a remarkable display of "people power," a mother-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified what researchers believe is the world's largest…...
‘World’s largest battery’ to help run Google’s new clean energy data center
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (554+ words) The battery has a 30 GWh capacity and a 100-hour duration. US tech giant Google announced on Tuesday that it will build a new data center in Pine Island, Minnesota. The new facility will be powered by 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of clean…...
Autonomous robots expose hurricane-driven hidden ocean bloom
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (526+ words) Autonomous robots captured a hidden phytoplankton bloom after Hurricane Idalia altered Gulf chemistry. Hurricane Idalia did more than tear across Florida's coastline in August 2023. It reshaped the Gulf's biological and chemical structure from the surface down to 50 meters below, and…...
Why sleeping cool matters more than you think
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (849+ words) LUSOM's Lara Smith explains why cooling the body matters for sleep, and what a six-week real-world study revealed. In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Lara Smith, founder of Lusom" and host of The Sweaty Pillow Podcast,…...
Massive 13-foot shark filmed in Antarctic waters for the first time
1+ week, 3+ day ago (534+ words) Antarctica has always been the ultimate gatekeeper. Its waters are famously shark-free, or so the general rule of thumb went for decades. But that rule was just rewritten by a slow-moving, barrel-shaped giant. Researchers from the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre…...
Record drill retrieves longest sediment core from Antarctic ice sheet
1+ week, 3+ day ago (547+ words) The drill was part of this international SWAIS2C project (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2C). An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment core from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." Drilled at…...
Fire tornado experiment could transform how we tackle ocean oil spills
1+ week, 4+ day ago (613+ words) This tornado-like spinning flame method could prove to be a greener and faster alternative to existing "in-situ" fire pools. Researchers from Texas A&M and UC Berkeley have successfully conducted the first large-scale experiment using fire whirls to clean up…...