Colliding plasma ejections from the Sun generate huge geomagnetic storms − studying them will help scientists monitor future space weather

While geomagnetic storms can lead to gorgeous aurora displays, they can also damage satellites and GPS.

Shirsh Lata Soni, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan • conversation
Feb. 21, 2025 • ~6 min

Geoengineering is politically off-limits – could a Trump presidency change that?

Trump has long been a climate-sceptic. But he’s close to tech figures who like big technological solutions to global problems.

Shaun Fitzgerald, Director, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge • conversation
Feb. 17, 2025 • ~6 min

Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel

Researchers have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 13, 2025 • ~5 min

AI is transforming the search for new materials that can help create the technologies of the future

Discovering new materials could drive forward areas such as green technology and advanced electronics.

Domenico Vicinanza, Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
Feb. 10, 2025 • ~9 min

Tiny copper ‘flowers’ bloom on artificial leaves for clean fuel production

Tiny copper ‘nano-flowers’ have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels and chemicals that are the backbone of modern energy and

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 3, 2025 • ~4 min

Electricity prices across Europe to stabilise if 2030 targets for renewable energy are met, study suggests

National targets for solar and wind power will see reliance on natural gas plummet, reducing electricity price volatility across Europe, with major

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 3, 2025 • ~6 min

Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing organic molecules.

Sara Russell, Professor of Planetary Sciences, Natural History Museum • conversation
Jan. 29, 2025 • ~10 min

US Solar Farms Put Hungry Sheep to Work
VOA Learning English • voa
Jan. 23, 2025 • ~5 min

Organic solar cells could be best for space missions

Solar cells made with organic materials could be better than conventional silicon and gallium arsenide for generating power in space.

U. Michigan • futurity
Jan. 17, 2025 • ~5 min

Why does a rocket have to go 25,000 mph to escape Earth?

A rocket needs to overcome the force of gravity to leave Earth behind.

Benjamin L. Emerson, Principal Research Engineer, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology • conversation
Jan. 13, 2025 • ~7 min

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