SciTech

Sail Transport Network - The Past Meets the Future

As oil prices sky-rocket, making common forms of transportation more expensive, is the 7000 year old method of propelling boats using sails about to make a comeback? Jan Lundberg, of...

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Oxygen-poor 'dead zones' ebb and flow across the oceans

[Top Image Credit: Image © Science/AAAS] [Caption: A 3-dimensional rendering, in red, of the observed structure of the low-oxygen region in the Eastern Pacific. The red "tongues" of low-oxygen water...

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Call to save our soils, to save ourselves

A scientist from the University of Sheffield is warning that the most essential and precious of the earth's resources - its soil - is under a greater threat than ever...

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The Battery Powered Grid

The current trend towards so-called 'green' electricity which relies on transient power sources such as wind and solar power ideally requires that an effective mechanism is harnessed to store the...

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