WASHINGTON, May 29 – The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) said on Tuesday it is deploying $250 million to restart its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, including a…
IRENA’s World Energy Transitions Outlook Re-Writes Energy Narrative…
Abu Dhabi, UAE - Accelerating energy transitions on a path to climate safety can grow the world’s economy by 2.4 per cent over the expected growth of current plans within the next decade, a new analysis…
Spinning electricity from heat and cold
Magnetic layers interact with sunlight differently, creating a temperature gradient that generates electricity day and night. A new device harvests two types of energy during the daytime, making it cool on one end and hot…
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA finds elusive mergers of black holes with…
For the first time, researchers have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star. In fact, the scientists detected not one but two such events occurring just 10 days…
Synthesis of a Near-Infrared Light Absorbing Macrocyclic Aromatic…
A ring-expanded porphyrin with no meso-bridges comprised of an odd number of pyrroles was successfully synthesized via the oxidative coupling of the corresponding terpyrrole. Porphyrins, which are well-known natural porphyrin molecules, e.g. heme and chlorophyll,…