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Mercury seals
The Polar Bear has often been given the role of proverbial environmental canary, coming to prominence in the movie An Inconvenient Truth by former US Vice President Al Gore. But, researchers in Canada...
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Meteoric rise of life on Earth
Seemingly endless meteor storms that bombarded the Earth four billion years ago helped to create the right growing conditions from which life could first emerge. The same meteoric bombardment may also...
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It’s a gas, gas, gas
A significant new source of natural gas, methane, has been found locked up in crystalline form in the Gulf of Mexico. Capturing methane from these so-called methane hydrates could stave off gas...
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Non-stick, wrinkly ships
A wrinkly material for coating ships’ hulls to prevent barnacles sticking could improve efficiency, cut fuel bills, and reduce clean up costs by millions of dollars across the shipping industry....
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Earthquake fuses could save lives and buildings
Steel “fuses” that distort when a building shakes during an earthquake to dissipate the energy could allow multi-story buildings hold themselves together during even violent earthquakes and then return...
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Between a rock and a fluid place
US researchers have found a way to monitor geological faults deep in the Earth that could help them predict an imminent earthquake more precisely than with other methods. This is the first time that...
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Black gold
An estimated 513 billion barrels of “technically recoverable” heavy oil lie in Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt, a 50,000 square kilometre region in the East Venezuela Basin Province. Worldwide consumption...
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Scrubbing up knowledge of submarine volcanoes
A study of the shape of pumice from three adjacent submarine lava dome volcanoes in the western Pacific reveal that explosive volatility driven by the movement of molten magma is lower in deeper water....
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Flat-packed particles
Graphene, a Manchester University discovery, is a material comprising sheets of carbon just one atom thick; graphene is like a single layer of graphite. However, it was the discovery that it has some...
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Energy, all at sea
Floating wind turbines could capture the energy of higher wind speeds further out to sea and address some of the noise and unsightliness complained about by those with turbines closer to home. Wind...
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