Method concentrates radionuclides in a small portion of a nuclear plant’s wastewater, allowing the rest to be recycled.

If solar panels could gather sunlight from two sides instead of one, they could generate up to 20% more power, a new formula shows.

When climate change is in the news or a focus of Congress, oil companies spend more money on advertising, new research shows.

New technique for observing reaction products offers insights into the chemical mechanisms that formed them.

MIT study finds that challenges in measuring and mitigating leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, prove pivotal.

Substituting lumber for materials such as cement and steel could cut building emissions and costs.

A new analysis puts dark matter back in the game as a possible source of energy excess at the galactic center.

Mining materials from the sea floor could help secure a low-carbon future, but researchers are racing to understand the environmental effects.

Dr Jenny Zhang is a group leader and BBSRC David Phillips Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, where she is re-wiring photosynthesis to generate renewable fuels. Here, she tells us about why she switched from cancer research to sustainability, how her Fellowship programme is helping her develop leadership skills, and why eggs in her childhood home would regularly go missing.

A rapid way of turning ideas into new technologies in the aviation and power industries has been developed at Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory. Here, Professor Rob Miller, Director of the Whittle, describes how researchers plan to scale the process to cover around 80% of the UK’s future aerodynamic technology needs.