Osmotic engine: translating osmotic pressure into macroscopic mechanical force
Osmotic engine: translating osmotic pressure into macroscopic mechanical force
With population growth and fast socio-economic development, water shortage is becoming a serious issue worldwide.
A recent review discussed the difficulties of applying, through the use of Global Climate Models, the idea of robustness in climatic attribution studies, i.e., the search for the fundamental causes of recent global warming.
Our global community has been tasked to define and implement a Manhattan style strategy for reducing CO2 emissions at the gigatonne scale. The vision to accomplish this heroic goal is a holistic paradigm, which makes use of all the technologies in the CO2 utilization...
A recent Review takes an in-depth look at the current status and future prospects of supercritical transesterification.
How the Arctic’s rapid warming may influence weather patterns – and in particular extreme weather events caused by persistent conditions — in heavily populated regions (the mid-latitudes) of the northern hemisphere is discussed in a new article.
Australia is well known as a hot country, but how individuals and organizations understand ‘heat’ is surprisingly varied, and is explored in a recent review.
Monitoring the quality and distribution of physical habitat parameters in rivers, such as water depth, grain size and flow velocity, is vital for species survival.
An opinion article addressing the unique professional understanding that archaeologists can contribute to contemporary water management.
The next generation of smart windows based on organic materials which can change their properties by reflecting or transmitting excess solar energy in such a way that comfortable indoor temperatures can be maintained throughout the year.