Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
US space agency NASA is set to test-fire a booster for the world's most powerful rocket Space Launch System (SLS) which will power astronauts on the journey to Mars and on other deeper space missions The booster will be fired up at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems' test facilities in Promontory, …
Like dinosaur bones, the fossils of our modern era — CDs and DVDs — are often piled in forgotten heaps and buried underground. But these rounded relics are made of polycarbonates, a common plastic that decomposes in landfills and leaches toxic chemicals into groundwater. Scientists in IBM Corp.’s research division …
A Nigerian, Dr. Eddy Agbo, over the weekend emerged as one of the three winners of the Innovation Prize for Africa, winning the Special Prize for Social Impact with innovative healthcare solution to address Africa’s prevailing malaria burden. The Innovation Prize for Africa is the landmark programme of the African …
China will send its second orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 into space in mid September, said a senior official with the country's manned space programme. The Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft will be launched in mid September and its re-entry module will return in November, said Wu Ping, deputy director of the manned …
Scientists from a university in Israel reported that they have engineered bacteria that can produce the sugars needed to make a cell from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). Scientists from Weizmann Institute of Science "reprogrammed" an organism -- that consumes sugar and releases CO2 -- so that it can …
Dried sewage sludge could be recycled by adding it to cement to make concrete, researchers in Malaysia have discovered. Disposing sludge left over from treating sewage water is a major challenge for wastewater plants. Meanwhile, the construction sector seeks economic and ecological cement replacement materials in order to meet an …
It was the result that most scientists didn’t want. The United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union has plunged it into political and economic uncertainty — and left researchers worried over the future of their funding and collaborations, the UK’s participation in major European research programmes, and the freedom …
When he realized he was not going to make it as a guitarist, Hiroaki Suga set out to find the origin of life, and ended up creating a new way to develop medicines. Many years spent fiddling with the building blocks of the universe — combining molecules to form compounds …
WENCHANG - China's new generation carrier rocket the Long March-7 will leave no pollution as burning of its propellants produces only carbon dioxides and water, according to a project insider. Hu Xiaojun, deputy chief designer assistant, said on Thursday the new rocket relies on liquid oxygen and kerosene as fuel, …
The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, has landed in the southern Spanish city of Seville to complete its historic Atlantic crossing. Pilot Bertrand Piccard made swift progress over the ocean after leaving New York on Monday. The flight was the 15th stage in Solar Impulse's bid to circumnavigate the globe. Mission …
The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft set off from New York’s JFK airport early on Monday, embarking on the transatlantic leg of its record-breaking flight around the world to promote renewable energy. The flight, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, is expected to take about 90 hours - during which …
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new way to optimize electron transfer in semi-conductors used in solar fuel solutions. The finding, published today in Nature Chemistry, could have a big impact on devices that convert sunlight into …
In a first, an international team of astronomers have found firm evidence of the presence of oxygen in the early universe -- only 700 million years after the Big Bang. Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile, the team including scientists from Japan, Sweden, Britain and European …
Scientists have come up with a new way to turn plastic waste into liquid fuel. It uses less energy than previous methods, and produces a higher quality end product. The technique breaks down polyethylene - the most abundant plastic in the world, used to make everything from plastic film and …
Incredible scientific discoveries happen all the time when researchers haven't been looking for them, and new nanorods that harvest water from the air are no exception. These unintentionally produced carbon-rich microscopic stalks absorb and release water differently to every other material we know about. They can absorb more water at …
Member states of the European Space Agency have reaffirmed their commitment to launch a rover to Mars in 2020. Meeting in Paris, delegations agreed to put the project, which has experienced serial delays, on to a fresh schedule. They also injected an immediate extra sum of €77m (£59m), which will …
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter are one step closer to developing a new generation of low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. The structure is one of the world's first examples of a tri-layer metasurface absorber using a carbon interlayer. The system, developed by Chenglong Wang a PhD student in …
BEIJING - China's homegrown navigation system, the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), will cover the whole globe with a constellation of 35 satellites by 2020, said a government report on Thursday. By 2018, the system is expected to provide basic services to the nations along the Belt and Road, as …
What about all the carbon we've already poured into the atmosphere? If only there were a device that could take some of it back out. Researchers at Arizona State University’s Center for Negative Carbon Emissions are working on one. They discovered a commercially available resin that can grab carbon dioxide …
Astronomers have discovered the largest planet outside our solar system orbiting two stars, at a distance that would make it potentially habitable for people, scientists announced Monday. A team of NASA astronomers that made the discovery using the Kepler space telescope revealed the findings at a meeting of the American …
