Earth and Energy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers will one day help us invent and design new things, from materials and…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF How do doctors know if radiation therapy is hitting the right part of the patient…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The first fusion plants might generate up to 500Mw of energy, but in a world…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to store solar energy in batteries for a long time opens up some…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ocean contains a huge amount of heat energy, but so far tapping into it…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Once oil wells are tapped out they’re capped, but now they’re getting a new lease…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ocean is increasingly full of trash so companies are exploring new ways to capture…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to decarbonise air travel then you need new, or modified engines, that…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By using new manufacturing techniques we can do things we couldn’t do before, such as…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One of the problems we have “greening” our electricity supply is converting old gas power…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some chemicals either never break down or take millennia but now we have a way…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its weaponisation of energy supplies has left Europe short of…
