Written by Yin (Daniel) Duan
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Lithium batteries have high energy storage capacity, but sometimes they have unexpected failures and can even cause a fire.
A team of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) demonstrated for the first time how dendrites and whiskers — destructive, crystalline structures formed by lithium ions come into existence inside a battery.
Written by Craig Rucker
COP 25 was an utter failure for the United Nations.
Despite extending the conference into double-overtime, making it the longest COP ever, the UN was forced to adjourn without advancing the “rule book” for the Paris Climate Accord or agreeing on a framework for an international carbon market.
Written by Alan Stewart
Most of you reading this enjoy science and I’m sure you’ll appreciate the link following. For a most erudite and eclectic source of science I suggest you go to You Tube – Professor Jim Al-Kahlili and enjoy his many fascinating presentations.
Written by Kenneth Richard
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Within the last few years, over 50 papers have been added to our compilation of scientific studies that find the climate’s sensitivity to doubled CO2 (280 ppm to 560 ppm) ranges from <0 to 1°C.
When no quantification is provided, words like “negligible” are used to describe CO2’s effect on the climate.
Written by Mac Slavo
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has launched efforts to create a vaccine that would protect people from most flu strains, all at once, with a single shot. This shot would be a DNA-based vaccine that will literally change your body’s DNA.
Written by Jim Allison
In 2018, Dr. Jim Allison was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering an effective way to attack cancer through immunology.
In his lab, Allison urges researchers to get rid of the idea that they can prove something with science. All they can do is fail to disprove.
Written by Valerie Richardson
An inspector general’s report released Tuesday found Interior Secretary David Bernhardt committed no wrongdoing during his work as deputy secretary on a scientific assessment evaluating the impact of pesticides on endangered species.
Written by Andrew Montford
Environmental correspondents make a good living from scare stories. In the case of the BBC’s Matt McGrath (pictured), doubly so: as well as his BBC salary, he was recently the recipient of a €100,000 ($110,677) award from the green blob for his work.
Written by Paul Driessen
The Big Oil-Big Biofuel wars rage on. From my perch, ethanol, biodiesel and “advanced biofuels” make about zero energy, economic or environmental sense.
They make little political sense either until you recognize that politics is largely driven by crony-capitalism, campaign contributions, and vote hustling.
Written by Norbert Schwarzer
image: Peggy Heuer-Schwarzer, “Mental Leap: From Thought to Action”
Abstract:Yes, the size of a thought can be measured. But we have to dig quite deep before we are able to see how it can be done. At first we need to understand how the universe stores information and from there we derive a universal measure for the thing we call information.
Written by Alanna Ketler
As the lines between the use of technology and doing anything manually become increasingly blurred, the general public and policy makers don’t have time to consider the potential implications of too much technology, or more alarmingly, the merging of humans with AI.
Written by Deborah Cohen and Ed Brown
European clinical guidelines on how to treat a major form of heart disease are under review following a BBC Newsnight investigation.
Europe’s professional body for heart surgeons has withdrawn support for the guidelines, saying it was “a matter of serious concern” that some patients may have had the wrong advice.
Written by bBrain
Leonard Nimoy (‘Spock’ of Star Trek fame) narrates a popular documentary from 1978 representing the widespread scientific consensus of an impending ice age. The same grant-chasing scientists who warned us then of global cooling are the same doomsayers preaching global warming today. Little has changed.
Written by Dustin Mulvaney, Morgan D. Bazilian
The solar economy continues its dramatic growth, with over a half-terawatt already installed around the world generating clean electricity. But what happens to photovoltaic (PV) modules at the end of their useful life?
Written by James Taylor
There they go again. A new paper relying on modeling rather than real-world observations, claims global warming is creating a food production crisis.
The media are breathlessly promoting the doom-and-gloom paper, even as global food production reaches yet another new record.
Written by Jonathan Lange
When newspapers are under threat of lawsuit for any opinion that a jury might find objectionable, what remains of freedom of the press? How will public pursuit of the truth be advanced if anyone can sue for defamation to shield himself from honest critique?
