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WindDaily Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)

Pressurized wind tunnel tests show misaligned turbines gain power from tip speed changes

Experiments in a highly pressurized wind tunnel have shown that a wind turbine misaligned with the wind can reach new power maximums through changes to its tip speed alone, according to a study by researchers at MIT, Que...

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WindDaily Jul 24, 2026 (AFP)
Japan to test rare-earth mining 6 km underwater

Japan said Friday it plans to conduct full-scale mining tests in February for rare earth minerals from a seabed near a remote Paci...

WindDaily Jul 22, 2026 (AFP)
Metal mining's carbon footprint far larger than thought: study

From building wind turbines to reinforcing power grids for rising demand from electric cars, transitioning from fossil fuels to gr...

WindDaily Jul 17, 2026 (AFP)
From coal pits to wind turbines, Polish miners rise to the occasion

From the top of a wind turbine nearly 100 metres above the ground, Grzegorz Witek, a coal miner, gazes at the horizon.

NanoDaily Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Waste polyamide turned into carbon quantum dots with emission tuned from ultraviolet to yellow green

Researchers at Saitama University have made carbon quantum dots from waste polyamide and shifted their light emission step by step...

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WindDaily ROBODAILY May 01, 2026 (SPX)
Princeton Study Maps Raw Material Risks as Drone and Robot Output Scales Toward Millions of Units

Researchers estimate commercial drone production could scale by up to 10 times by the late 2030s, while output of humanoid and quadruped robots could rise by as much as 100 times o...

WindDaily SOLAR Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
Desert Renewable Grids Built To Survive Extreme Heat And Calm

Growing interest in transitioning from fossil-fueled electricity to locally powered renewable grids has prompted communities such as the KAUST campus to explore fully renewable con...

WindDaily WINDDAILY Apr 20, 2026 (AFP)
UK to accelerate clean energy drive amid Mideast war

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will use a speech later in the day to expand on the proposed measures, which include "driving forward plans to massively expand renewables" on governme...

WindDaily SOLAR Apr 16, 2026 (SPX)
Molecular Lock Design Pushes Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency Past 26 Percent

To achieve record efficiencies, scientists typically use self-assembled monolayers, or SAMs, just one molecule thick to extract positive charges from the perovskite layer. However,...

SolarCell SOLAR SCIENCE Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Victorian train delay blamed on solar storm redated to 1848 by archive study

A train delay at Exeter long cited as possibly the earliest recorded case of space weather disrupting technology most likely happened in 1848, not 1841, an international team led b...

RoboDaily AEROSPACE Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
US Army and Sikorsky agree flexible Black Hawk production deal starting with 16 aircraft

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), and the U.S. Army have reached a production agreement for Black Hawk helicopters that lets the Army add aircraft as requirements em...

BeyondLEO Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Single molecule electrical sensor tells left handed from right handed amino acids in meteorite samples

Researchers at the University of Osaka have developed an electrical method for telling apart the two mirror-im...

BeyondLEO Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Science Tokyo flies foldable phased array that corrects membrane warping in orbit

Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have operated a deployable phased-array transmitter in orbit that el...

BeyondLEO Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Game tree method plans fuel-minimum inspection sequences around GEO satellites

A team led by Meng Yunhe of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Sun Yat-sen University has proposed a met...

SkyNightly Oct 05, 2026 (SPX)
Four new findings frame water, dust, shelter and bone risks for long stays on the Moon

Four pieces of research and one NASA selection published between Sept. 14 and Oct. 1, 2026 each address a diff...