Newswise Feature Channel: Energy

Experts: Earth Day

University of Colorado Boulder — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:20:01 EST

A Wearable Smart Insole Can Track How You Walk, Run and Stand

Ohio State University — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:20:04 EST

A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson's disease.

Innovation Is Motivation

Sandia National Laboratories — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:50:40 EST

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --?"As a boy, I remember my interest in science and learning new things, making new things. That has always been my motivation," said Sandia scientist Hongyou Fan. Fan was recently named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, a group dedicated to accelerating federal technologies in the marketplace.

Astroparticle Physics: Neutrinos Weigh Less Than 0.45 Electronvolts

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:25:18 EST

The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has once again surpassed its own achievements. The latest data establish an upper limit of 0.45 eV/c2 (equivalent to 8 x 10-37 kilograms) for the neutrino mass. With this result, KATRIN, which measures neutrino mass in the laboratory using a model-independent method, has once again set a world record. The researchers have published their results in the journal Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.adq9592).

Metamaterials: Highly Twisted Rods Store Large Amounts of Energy

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 04:40:53 EST

An international research team coordinated at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) has developed mechanical metamaterials with a high elastic energy density. Highly twisted rods that deform helically provide these metamaterials with a high stiffness and enable them to absorb and release large amounts of elastic energy. The researchers conducted simple compression experiments to confirm the initial theoretical results. Their findings have been published in the science journal Nature. (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08658-z)

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American Chemical Society (ACS) — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:20:06 EST

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American Chemical Society (ACS) — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:15:33 EST

Cuando dos materiales se tocan, sus cargas superficiales se alteran, generando electricidad estatica. Investigadores han aprovechado este fenomeno para generar electricidad a partir de gotas de agua que se desplazan por un tubo, produciendo suficiente energia para encender 12 LED.

Advancing Quantum Technology: Tantalum's Impact on Next Generation Qubits

Department of Energy, Office of Science — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:40:00 EST

If qubits lose energy, they can lose coherence and thus their stored information. Determining the key sources of energy loss and adjusting how qubits are made can help researchers design new devices that can retain coherence and thus quantum information for longer amounts of time. In this study, researchers designed a novel way to characterize energy losses in a thin-film resonator. The work found that tantalum construction and annealed sapphire substrates improve device performance.

Earth Day 2025

George Washington University — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:30:00 EST

This year's Earth Day will be celebrated on April 22 with events throughout the United States and the world. This year's events will focus on clean energy, the connection between climate and health, pollution including plastic pollution, the move to electric vehicles, sustainability and more.

A Step Toward Harnessing Clean Energy From Falling Rainwater

American Chemical Society (ACS) — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:00:00 EST

Water flowing over some surfaces can gain or lose charge. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have harnessed the phenomenon to generate electricity from rain-like droplets moving through a tube. They demonstrate a new kind of flow that makes enough power to light 12 LEDs.

Small but Mighty: TESSERACT Joins the Hunt for Dark Matter

Argonne National Laboratory — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:15:55 EST

The TESSERACT experiment is using highly sensitive superconducting detectors to explore new regions of low-mass dark matter, potentially uncovering new fundamental forces and advancing quantum computing technologies.

Innovation at Work: Iowa State's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Helps Two Energy Startups Set Their Paths

Iowa State University — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:05:01 EST

Two teams of campus-affiliated entrepreneurs, in partnership with programs such as the ISU Startup Factory, are turning their ideas into startup companies producing energy.

Gluons' Density Isn't the Same in Bound vs Unbound Protons and Neutrons

Department of Energy, Office of Science — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:40:38 EST

Nuclear physicists recently used photons emitted by an accelerated gold nucleus to probe the inner structure of the protons and neutrons (nucleons) in another gold nucleus to measure the resulting density of gluons. The research found that nucleons bound in a nucleus have lower gluon density than free, unbound nucleons.

Lin Gao receives 2025 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award

Argonne National Laboratory — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:10:14 EST

Lin Gao, postdoctoral researcher in Argonne's Nuclear Science and Engineering division, has received the 2025 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award from the APS Users Organization.

Streamlining Hydropower Development: New Tech Catalog Simplifies Decision Making for Utilities

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:55:42 EST

When constructing or updating a hydropower facility, operators face a daunting array of turbine technology choices. The wrong decision can lead to costly delays and reduced profits, while choosing the right technology can boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce development timelines.

FSU Physics Dirac Lectures: Nobel Laureate to Give Public Lecture on Expansion of the Universe

Florida State University — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:35:07 EST

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Adam Riess will share the latest research into the expanding universe in his public lecture, "The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe," part of this year's Dirac Lectures presented by the Florida State University Department of Physics.

Snapshot of CEBAF History Influences Next Generation of Particle Accelerators

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:30:08 EST

When the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) was being constructed in the early 1990s, scientists and engineers needed a way to test the recirculating properties of the racetrack-shaped beam. So, they built a scale model of the research machine using the first cryomodules to be installed.

How to (Theoretically) Spot an Alien

Washington University in St. Louis — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:35:33 EST

Are we alone in the universe? The answer to one of humanity's biggest questions is complicated by a basic reality: If there is life on other worlds, it may not look familiar. A study in Nature Communications proposes a new way to search for life using tell-tale patterns of energy.

Enabling Integration Across Research Infrastructures for Accelerating Science

Globus — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:30:14 EST

Welcome to our blog series on using Globus to integrate diverse research infrastructures to accelerate science. In today's data-intensive scientific landscape, it is increasingly necessary to make use of resources that are located at different facilities.

Missouri S&T Researcher Studies How Energy Shifts Could Improve Tornado Predictions

Missouri University of Science and Technology — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:25:02 EST

Missouri S&T researcher studies how energy shifts could improve tornado predictions