Dr Carlos Ziebert, head of IAM-AWP’s Calorimeter Center, KIT, explains how battery calorimeters allow thermal characterisation and safety testing for an improved sodium-ion battery.
In late 2018, the POLiS (Post Lithium Storage) Cluster of Excellence was acquired jointly by KIT...
Sustainable management of peatlands and mitigating climate change: Waterloo’s Ecohydrology Research Group helps close key knowledge gaps.
Peatlands are a valuable but vulnerable natural resource. Peat forms through the slow accumulation of partially decomposed plant biomass in water-saturated soils of...
By investigating the world’s smallest droplets of near-perfect fluid, researchers have been able to develop greater understanding of the primordial matter in the Universe.
A collision between two atomic nuclei accelerated to a significant fraction of the speed of light...
Margherita Bruscolini, Geoscientist & UAV Pilot at RSS-Hydro examines how natural disasters expose the stark inequalities in society between the wealthy and poor, and what can be done to mitigate the effects.
Natural disasters, such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, and...
The SMaRT research group at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology runs a comprehensive programme for the development sustainable materials and technologies, including energy and quantum materials.
Establishing a sustainable society is this century’s grand challenge. Here, one of the...
Professor Hitoshi Murayama of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) discusses bringing people together in the quest for greater understanding of the Universe.
I was once invited to speak at the United Nations...
Andrea Isella of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University discusses the search for baby planets and the astrophysics of planet formation.
As of today, the number of planets discovered orbiting stars beyond the solar system has surpassed 4,300,...
Innovation News Network explores the work of Dr Anna Schenk, from the University of Bayreuth’s Colloidal Systems group, and discusses the group’s role in developing bio-inspired synthetic materials.
Junior professor Dr Anna Schenk leads the University of Bayreuth’s Colloidal Systems...
The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Tokyo collaborate in joint international research laboratory for physics at the smallest and largest scales of our universe.
Our scientific world faces significant challenges, and the field of physics...
The Ecohydrology Research Group and Water Institute are using their research in biogeophysics to develop tools to observe the Earth’s subsurface biosphere.
The Earth’s shallow subsurface provides many key services. Soils are the foundation of agriculture and, therefore, the world’s...