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Hikurangi Subduction Zone: The burning question about NZ's biggest quake-maker

NewstalkZB 19 May 2024
Now, scientists have edged even closer to answering perhaps the most important question about our big-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone ... scrum that produces an enormous amount of pent-up energy.
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Northern lights' colors: A look at what's producing them at the molecular level

Usatoday 18 May 2024
According to predictions by NASA scientists, the next peak in the kind of solar activity that spews large eruptions in energy and material – called a solar maximum – will occur in July 2025.
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Definition of engineering?

The Irish Times 18 May 2024
Sir, – Research on harnessing solar energy from space has taken a significant step forward, as reported by Kevin O’Sullivan (“Irish scientists move closer to creating solar farms in space”, News, May 16th).
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50 years of Pokhran-I: Why India conducted its first nuclear tests

Financial Express 18 May 2024
Domestically, Indian scientists\u00a0Homi J Bhabha\u00a0and Vikram Sarabhai had laid the groundwork earlier for nuclear energy to be tested in India. In 1954, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) was founded, with Bhabha as director.
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Modern plant enzyme partners with surprisingly ancient protein

Phys Dot Org 17 May 2024
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that a protein responsible for the synthesis of a key plant material evolved much earlier than suspected.
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New research shows the true cost of reproduction across the animal kingdom

Phys Dot Org 17 May 2024
While scientists have understood the direct energy costs associated with offspring (like the energy used to create and nourish them), the indirect costs—the metabolic load of pregnancy and parental care—have been largely overlooked.
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‘Scientists lose our credibility when we become climate activists’

The Times/The Sunday Times 17 May 2024
A Cambridge climate scientist has called on his colleagues to step back from activism, arguing that they risk undermining the science to fit the politics ... “I’m a scientist,” he told The Times ... That we change our energy consumption.
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IPPR report finds UK gas sector workers could transfer to greener jobs

The Engineer 17 May 2024
Additionally, it reported that if gas sector workers were only moving into green jobs such as solar PV installation, (non-gas) energy plant managers and environmental scientists, many would likely need more significant retraining and other support.
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US ban on Russian uranium could backfire

Asiatimes 17 May 2024
“No one will dare” to enforce the law without granting waivers, says Alexey Anpilogov, a Russian political scientist and expert in nuclear energy – “because American nuclear reactors produce cheap electricity.
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Solar farms in space could help solve global energy crisis following tech breakthrough, Irish scientists predict

The Irish Times 16 May 2024
Plans to harvest solar power in space using satellites to produce a potentially endless supply of clean energy have taken a big leap forward with Irish scientists making a key breakthrough on how to deploy the technology.
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Cadmium-doped perovskite solar cell achieves 22.7% efficiency

PV Magazine 16 May 2024
FAPbI3 is one of the most promising perovskite materials for solar cell applications, as it offers a narrow energy bandgap and remarkable stability ... University of Victoria, Advanced Energy Materials, CC BY 4.0 DEED.
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Mary Catherine Dunphy: Singing the blues about clean air rules

Ravalli Republic 16 May 2024
In a recent PBS documentary about energy production in Montana, Montana’s very own Nobel Peace Prize-winning, climate scientist, Dr. Steve Running, said this when discussing the adverse effects of climate change ... .
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Even Among Animals Offspring Are Surprisingly Expensive

IFL Science 16 May 2024
Fortunately, however, there is no need for such handwaving guesses; scientists have monitored energy consumption in many species during reproduction, including examples from mammals, reptiles, and fish.
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Will Northern Lights be seen in Texas again? Here's when solar activity is set to peak

Austin American-Statesman 16 May 2024
NOAA defines a geomagnetic storm as "a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very efficient exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment surrounding Earth.".
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Making babies may take 10 times more energy than we thought

Popular Science 16 May 2024
For mammals, the amount of indirect energy–the previously unquantified metabolic cost to synthesize and carry offspring–composes about 90% of the total energy used in the reproduction process from fertilization to birth.
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