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It’s always a bit of a worry when you have development times of years, and the lifetimes of operational satellites are just about as long as the development and launch time for new ones...

Could be another pie in the sky idea, but one could always hope. – Anthony A new catalyst could help speed development of inexpensive home-brewed solar energy systems for powering homes and plug-in cars during the day...

Social networking site under fire over intention to run giant new data centre mainly on coal-powered electricitySocial networking website Facebook is coming under unprecedented pressure from its users to switch to renewable...

In bureaucracy, truth is often stranger than fiction. A non polluting electric car company gets slammed with fine for “non compliance” for a car that can’t produce any emissions. That’s weird enough...

This is an interesting video of a fire vortex that has been making the rounds on the web. I’ve seen this phenomenon before in wildfires here in California, but this one is rather dramatic in color, intensity, and longevity....

This is an interesting video of a fire vortex that has been making the rounds on the web. I’ve seen this phenomenon before in wildfires here in California, but this one is rather dramatic in color, intensity, and longevity....

First there was SETI@home where you could use spare CPU cycles to look for extraterrestrial signals. Now we have Climate@Home, running NASA GISS modeling software in distributed computing, but no release date yet. Oxford...

See amazing new sun images from NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory Caption: The most detailed sunspot ever obtained in visible light was seen by new telescope at NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory...

Britain's finest export could soon be powering our cars• Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuelIs there no bad news about whisky? Yes, admitted, it can lead you to odd places – specifically to a culvert off the M62...

• PV Crystalox Solar blow adds to gloom in green energy sector• Crystalox boss insists group can compete effectivelyThe tough environment being faced by many companies in the green energy field was highlighted again today...

From Science @NASA Japanese Spacecraft Approaches Venus For the next few months, Venus will be softly resplendent in the evening sky, a treat for stargazers – but looks can be deceiving...

If diamonds are forever, it only stands to reason that a diamond-clad razor blade will last far longer than conventional steel ones. The Diamaze PSD, a feat of German engineering, is composed of a tungsten carbide blade that...

By-products from distilling process could be used to power cars and even aviation, according to researchers in EdinburghIt gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "one for the road"...

Victory by Fife-based BiFab raises the prospect of thousands of new jobs for ScotlandA Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world's most advanced tidal energy turbines.The contract could kickstart a marine...

Nuclear energy is not on the rise – the hard facts point to a continuing, slow phase-out around the worldRepeatedly in recent years there have been calls for a revival of nuclear power...