Abu Dhabi, May 21 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) opened its thirty-first Council meeting on Wednesday at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, with more than 300 government representatives attending in person and online.…
Curiosity: Journey to Mars (Photo feature)
Test Rover at JPL During Preparation for Mars Rover's Low-Angle Selfie [caption id="attachment_5865" align="alignnone" width="1041"] Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS[/caption] This view of a test rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, results from advance testing of…
Week through the lens: Space photo feature
X-ray view of the Galactic Centre [caption id="attachment_5858" align="alignnone" width="945"] Credits: ESA/XMM-Newton/G. Ponti et al. 2015[/caption] The central regions of our galaxy, the Milky Way, seen in X-rays by ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory. [pullquote]This image portrays…
Hubble Capture Amazing Space Photos: Photo Feature
A Hubble Cosmic Couple [caption id="attachment_5846" align="alignnone" width="1041"] Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt[/caption] Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 — more commonly known as WR 124…
Grape Waste Could Make Competitive Biofuel
Source: Shutterstock The solid waste left over from wine-making could make a competitive biofuel, University of Adelaide researchers have found. Published in the journal Bioresource Technology, the researchers showed that up to 400 litres of bioethanol…