Danish startup Again has raised money… again. Google Ventures and Berlin-based HV Capital led the $43mn funding round, which brings the startup’s total to date to just shy of $100mn. Again takes waste CO₂ from industry, combines it with hydrogen and then feeds the concoction to a host of millennia-old bacteria. The little germs devour

Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development and Minister of Industry and Transport, Kamel El-Wazir, met with French Ambassador to Cairo, Eric Chevalier, to explore strategies for localizing various industries in Egypt. The focus areas included the automobile industry, railway rolling stock, renewable energy, and green hydrogen. The discussions centred around ongoing joint transport projects and

A grand experiment is underway in Nevada where an endangered desert wildflower stands in the way of a mining company's plans to dig for lithium to help speed production of batteries for electric cars and other green energy projects. Australia-based Ioneer says the mine it wants to dig in the Nevada desert would more than

Europa and Enceladus are key targets to search for evidence of alien life in our Solar System. However, the surface and shallow subsurface of these airless icy moons are constantly bombarded by ionizing radiation that could degrade chemical biosignatures. Therefore, sampling of icy surfaces in future life detection missions to Europa and Enceladus requires a

Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and other telescopes, astronomers have found evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in IRS 13, a population of dusty stellar objects within the nuclear star cluster of our Milky Way Galaxy. Intermediate-mass black holes may form in dense star clusters via the merger of stellar-mass black holes

A team of scientists in China has assembled a telomere-to-telomere reference genome for ginseng (Panax ginseng), a representative of Chinese traditional medicine. Overview of the morphological characteristics of ginseng (Panax ginseng). Image credit: Song et al., doi: 10.1093/hr/uhae107. Ginseng is one of the most important medicinal plants, grown in northeast Asia including China, Korea, Siberia

Home Fossil Energy UK set on leaving fossil fuels behind and turning into clean energy superpower With climate change breathing down the world’s neck alongside the cost of living crisis and energy security concerns, the United Kingdom (UK) is determined to accelerate its energy transformation, moving away from coal, oil, and gas to turbocharge its

Harenadraco prima is the first species of troodontid dinosaur ever found in the Late Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia. Life reconstruction of Harenadraco prima. Image credit: Yusik Choi. Harenadraco prima lived in what is now Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, between 72 and 71 million years ago. The new species belongs to Troodontidae, a

Bolivian coffee producers have filmed the Amazon weasel (Neogale africana) near their shade-grown plots as part of a citizen science monitoring program. The Amazon weasel (Neogale africana): diagnostic sharp, dark-brown stripe down midline from throat to belly. Image credit: Bernal-Hoverud et al., doi: 10.15560/20.3.828. Also known as the tropical weasel, the Amazon weasel is a

Archaeologists in Argentina have analyzed the 21,000-year-old fossil remains with cut marks belonging to a specimen of the exinct glyptodont Neosclerocalyptus , found on the banks of the Reconquista River, northeast of the Pampean region. Their results provide new elements for discussing the earliest peopling of southern South America and specifically for the interaction between

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California will be the first state to receive federal funds under a program to create regional networks, or “hubs,” that produce hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity, officials announced Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Energy said the California Hydrogen Hub will receive an initial $30 million to

Amoebidium appalachense , a protist closely related to animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London. The findings shed light on how complex organisms may have acquired some of their genes and highlights the dynamic interplay between viruses