The site of a seawater desalination plant that could provide up to one-third of the water consumed by Beijing’s households lies about 200 kilometers southeast of the parched Chinese capital. In 2014, China’s state news media reported that the facility, to be located on the shores of Bohai Bay, would be completed by 2019, contributing to the three million tons of fresh water per day of desalination capacity that China wants to have built by 2020.
Since then, the planning of this facility has been touch and go: it’s been approved by the provincial development agency and listed as one of the major projects in China’s initiative to build a supercity around Beijing, but it’s still far from certain when the construction will begin.
A big step in helping perovskites reach their potential as the basis for far cheaper and more efficient types of solar cells came this week from a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The scientists found that the surfaces of materials with this distinctive crystal structure vary dramatically in performance. Perovskites are made up of tiny grains that are faceted, not unlike diamonds, says Alexander Weber-Bargioni, one of the lead researchers, and some facets turn out to be much more efficient at producing electrical current than adjacent ones.
With its stock price soaring following the release of strong data for its experimental ovarian cancer treatment, Tesaro completed a stock sale that net the company $409 million.
Tesaro (NASDAQ: TSRO) said it sold 5.3 million shares of common stock at $81 per share. The Waltham, MA-based company’s stock was trading at $91.36 per share this morning, just shy of its 52-week high of $92.48.
Eleven Biotherapeutics says it’s in line for $22.5 million from partner Roche after an experimental eye treatment that the companies have partnered on hit a key early milestone that puts it on the path to starting clinical trials.
ONDOAN ha puesto en marcha un proceso de internacionalización, sustentado inicialmente en una presencia cada vez más activa en Latinoamérica, en concreto en países como México, así como en Marruecos. Fruto del mismo, ha constituido la sociedad Ondoan México Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable, con sede en Ciudad de México.
While graphene has faced challenges in the field of digital logic because of its lack of an inherent band gap, it has been that very weakness that has attracted many researchers to exploring its use in optoelectronics. This lack of a band gap makes graphene an extreme broadband absorber, enabling photodetection for visible, infrared, and terahertz frequencies.
This week we learned about a tiny robotic stingray bioengineered from rat heart muscle that can navigate an obstacle course, 3D-printed “micro-rockets” made from biodegradable silk that could one day target cancer in the body like a missile, and a programmable genetic vaccine against Ebola, malaria and the flu that can be made in just seven days and was 100 percent effective in tests in mice. Read on if you dare!
It’s the same old story: batteries are holding us back. Technology is advancing so quickly across so many industries, but the next-generation batteries needed to power all of these advancements more efficiently are nowhere to be found. Researchers are hard at work on improving existing battery tech though, and they’re also developing exciting new kinds of batteries that could someday proliferate. Now, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think they may be on an exciting path toward building a new type of liquid battery that uses gravity to generate energy.
Hirisens es el primer operador IoT (Internet of Things) de control medioambiental que en pocos meses de andadura cuenta ya con referencias en el País Vasco, México, Italia, Chile, Argentina y EE.UU. Su público objetivo son tanto las empresas como las administraciones públicas.
Hirisens diseña y pone en funcionamiento y servicio, soluciones de medición de las condiciones ambientales en entornos urbanos, industriales y del sector primario.
El grupo de ingeniería Sener ha llegado a un acuerdo con Rolls-Royce para la venta de su participación del 53,1% en Industria de Turbo Propulsores (ITP) por 720 millones de euros. La compañía británica tomará así el control total del fabricante de turbinas para motores de aviación.
Según los términos del acuerdo, el pago se liquidará en el plazo de dos años y existe la posibilidad de liquidar hasta el 50% del mismo con acciones. Está previsto que el cierre de la operación se produzca a principios de 2017.
