Believe it or not seawater makes an excellent base for fuel. That’s because seawater contains a cocktail of elements like hydrogen oxygen sodium and others all of which are essential for life on Earth to thrive. The fuel part here comes from the hydrogen found in seawater. Unfortunately pulling the hydrogen gas from the rest of the elements has been quite a challenge at least until now.

According to a new paper published in the journal Joule researchers with the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Stanford University the University of Oregon and Manchester Metropolitan University have created a device that can safely pull hydrogen from seawater allowing the researchers to make hydrogen fuel.

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Since the discovery of X-rays by Roentgen in 1895 its use has been ubiquitous from medical and environmental applications to materials sciences12345. X-ray characterization requires a large number of atoms and reducing the material quantity is a long-standing goal. Here we show that X-rays can be used to characterize the elemental and chemical state of just one atom. Using a specialized tip as a detector X-ray-excited currents generated from an iron and a terbium atom coordinated to organic ligands are detected. The fingerprints of a single atom the L23 and M45 absorption edge signals for iron and terbium respectively are clearly observed in the X-ray absorption spectra.

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Global investment in clean energy is on course to rise to USD 1.7 trillion in 2023 with solar set to eclipse oil production for the first time

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Mesoscopic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) often known as the renowned Grätzel cells were developed 32 years ago by Brian ORegan and Michael Grätzel. DSCs use photosensitizers to turn light into electricity.

Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have discovered a way to create transparent photosensitizers molecules that can be activated by light and adsorb light across the entire visible light spectrum. Previous versions of DSCs were largely dependent on direct sunlight.

Simulations track the spread of coughs and safe physical distancing indoors
Date: October 5 2021
Source: McGill University
Summary: To prevent the spread of COVID-19 indoors the two meters physical distancing guideline is not enough without masks according to researchers. However wearing a mask indoors can reduce the contamination range of airborne particles by about 67 percent.

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Behold the hot energetic Universe.

A German-Russian space telescope has just acquired a breakthrough map of the sky that traces the heavens in X-rays.

The image records a lot of the violent action in the cosmos - instances where matter is being accelerated heated and shredded.

Feasting black holes exploding stars and searingly hot gas.