Zinc-air batteries are the quiet workhorses inside hearing aids: cheap, compact and, for the most part, thrown away after one use. A research team that includes a Rutgers professor now reports a way to make a rechargeable version run steadily for 1,000 hours, without leaning on platinum-style precious metals. The Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute summarized the work on November 4, 2026.
The study appeared in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. Tewodros Asefa, an RCEI affiliate and pro...
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Global warming will be faster than expected.
Scientists suggest that global warming could progress faster than was previously believed because increased temperatures influence natural greenhouse gas emissions. Numerous studies from the Swedish research team over the past two years have determined that natural greenhouse gas emissions will increase when the climate gets warmer, Linköping University reported. Now, their most recent study has backed up these findings. "Everything indicates that global warming caused by humans leads to increa...
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NASA’s Cassini Probe Spies an ocean under the Icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus
New research using data from its Cassini spacecraft shows a global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
NASA’s Cassini mission has confirmed the presence of what it termed a “global ocean” beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus and it has managed to deduce the presence of the ocean after analyzing new data from the Cassini mission. This exciting discovery expands the region of habitability for Enceladus from just a regional sea under the South Pole to all of...
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NOAA’s Science On a Sphere is a room sized, global display system
Novel and revolutionary Science On a Sphere® (SOS) is an educational tool that uses computers and video projectors to help illustrate Earth System science to people of all ages.
This tool has been developed by Dr. Sandy MacDonald along with researchers at NOAA. Unique and captivating, it's been used in science museums, visitor centers, zoos, aquariums, laboratories, and schools around the world.
It consists of a spherical projection system created by NOAA which presents high-resolution vid...
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