Shell is to build what it claims will be the biggest grid storage battery in Europe as it attempts to diversify its business holdings away from fossil fuels towards more sustainable energy.
A machine-learning algorithm has pinpointed a powerful new antimicrobial compound.
An international team of researchers has set a world record for converting solar energy to electricity using quantum dot devices. They could be developed as flexible outer skins in next generation solar panels.
Products containing cannabidiol (CBD) are widely available on the high street even though they are not subject to any checks. Now new rules from the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) require the CBD industry to provide information about product safety and contents, or products will be taken off the shelves.
A controversial study of Greenland ice cores reports fossil methane emissions from human activity as far higher than previously esti¬mated. It suggests scientists have underestimated the quantities of methane being released from oil and gas operations (Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-020-1991-8).
Softer road surfaces incorporating waste tyre rubber could improve road safety and solve a big disposal problem at the same time, according to researchers.
Global warming is driving up rates of infectious diseases across the world’s oceans, endangering marine organisms and habitats – and threatening global food supplies.
Sea warming is contributing to the appearance of a protozoan disease leading to a reduction in the density of a type of seagrass called eel grass.
Spanish multinational pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturer Grifols is buying three ciprofloxacin-based assets from bankrupt US antibiotics developer Aradigm for $3m.
Twenty years after the launch of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates talks about progress towards the Foundation’s ongoing mission to eliminate inequalities in healthcare.