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Energy storage usually brings to mind batteries, capacitors, tanks of hydrogen, or maybe some giant gravity system hauling ...

The European Patent Office (EPO) today announced the winners of the European Inventor Award 2026 during a ceremony in Berlin.

Scientists have demonstrated a promising new approach for converting methane -- the primary component of natural gas -- into ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester and Hebei University of Technology have identified how a new class of catalyst ...

For decades, scientists trying to build better catalysts have relied on a single guiding principle: there is one sweet spot, ...

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a ...

A plastic bottle tossed into a recycling bin could one day help power an electric vehicle, smartphone or renewable energy ...

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Atomic defects can tune carbon quantum dots across UV to near-infrared light, guiding cleaner design of sensors, bioimaging ...

Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are tiny carbon-based nanomaterials that have attracted increasing attention as environmentally ...