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Single-catalyst water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen 24/7
Stanford scientists have invented a device that produces clean-burning hydrogen from water 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Unlike conventional water splitters,...
Researchers split water into hydrogen, oxygen using light, nanoparticles
Water (stock image). Researchers have used cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Credit: © gertrudda / Fotolia
Researchers from the University of...
New water splitting technique efficiently produces hydrogen fuel
An artist's conception of a commercial hydrogen production plant that uses sunlight to split water in order to produce clean hydrogen fuel.
Credit: University of...
New concepts emerge for generating clean, inexpensive fuel from water
Splitting water into hydrogen provides a means of harvesting the hydrogen for fuel. This image depicts the water-splitting process in a light-sensitive electrode material...
Modeling Jupiter and Saturn’s possible origins
Jupiter and Saturn.
Credit: NASA/GSFC
New theoretical modeling by Carnegie's Alan Boss provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter...
Our solar system’s ‘shocking’ origin story
The colors represent the relative amounts of short-lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron-60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with...
Drastic chemical change occurring in birth of planetary system: Has the solar system also...
Illustration of rotating-infalling gas toward a protostar. The abundance of sulfermonooxcyde is enhanced at the outer edge (colored blue) of a protoplenatry disk.
Credit: Image...
Astronomers find sun’s ‘long-lost brother,’ pave way for family reunion
Solar sibling HD 162826 is not visible to the unaided eye, but can be seen with low-power binoculars near the bright star Vega in...
Spiral arms in protoplanetary disk: They’re not just for galaxies any more
Thermal dust emission from the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27 clearly shows a spiral structure.
Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); L....
What our solar system looked like as a ‘toddler’
Image of HD 115600 showing a bright debris ring viewed nearly edge-on and located just beyond a Pluto-like distance to the star. Right: A...
First interstellar asteroid is like nothing seen before
This artist's impression shows the first interstellar asteroid: `Oumuamua. This unique object was discovered on Oct. 19, 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in...
