Like piezoresistive, piezoelectric, and capacitive sensing techniques devices, sensors based on thermal microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have enabled motion sensing in accelerometers. These ...

From generation to transmission and distribution, the power industry is changing. With distributed energy resources (DERs) increasingly participating in wholesale capacity, energy, and ancillary ...

In the IMB method, a mass spectrometer (MS) is used to determine the gas composition at the outlet after a controlled gas mixture passes over a sample suspended from the IGA microbalance. The partial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. There is a growing need for companies to adopt carbon ...

Cutting methane production from livestock is considered vital to climate change mitigation, with lots of research focusing on how animals breed and are fed. But physicists are playing their part too ...

Scientists are tracing ancient helium trapped beneath South Africa’s gold fields, revealing how rare gas survives for billions of years.

Virtually every U.S. driver would be pumping gasoline containing corn-produced ethanol by 2012 under a plan nearing Senate approval Thursday. The proposal would dramatically change how refiners blend ...

Palo Alto Utilities workers restore gas lines after a truck drove over a curb meter manifold on Kipling Avenue in December 2017. Photo by Veronica Weber. At a time when Palo Alto and other cities are ...