Knowledge and Technology

Russia is planning to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to the moon, then Venus, then Jupiter. Roscosmos, Russia’s federal space agency, announced Saturday that its “space tug” — the term for a spacecraft that transports astronauts or equipment from one orbit to another — is scheduled to launch on an interplanetary …

Vistra Corp. owns 36 natural-gas power plants, one of America’s largest fleets. It doesn’t plan to buy or build any more. Instead, Vistra intends to invest more than $1 billion in solar farms and battery storage units in Texas and California as it tries to transform its business to survive …

An Iranian knowledge-based company produced an oil-based ozone generator to prevent the country from importing this device. Chief executive officer of the Iranian knowledge-based company, Shadi Azizi Ha said Iran produced a type of oil-based ozone generator that has much higher efficiency. Referring to the importance and usage of this …

Google’s moving forward with its goal of becoming carbon-free by the end of the decade after AES Corp. agreed to supply the tech giant with renewable energy to power its data centers in Virginia. AES, an international power plant developer, said the deal will result in the construction of 500 …

Global EV sales grew 41% last year, but must accelerate even faster to meet climate and energy goals, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. Under current trends, 145 million EVs, including cars, trucks, and busses, will be on the world’s roads by 2030, approximately 7% of the total fleet. That …

Every day, the sun ejects large amounts of a hot particle soup known as plasma toward Earth where it can disrupt telecommunications satellites and damage electrical grids. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University’s Department of Astrophysical Sciences have made …

A Qatari company hopes to use the country’s abundant gas reserves to make protein for fish food and other animal feeds. Gulf Biotech, the Doha-based industrial biotech investor, and Unibio have signed a license agreement to produce sustainable and organic protein in Qatar. “The abundance of natural gas in Qatar …

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) jointly with colleagues from the Industrial University of Tyumen (IUT) have proposed a system that will reduce energy costs for heating industrial plants at least five-fold. The study’s findings were published in the academic journal Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. Technological development or the …

Google Cloud and Siemens have announced a new partnership that will see AI and machine learning brought to factory floors. Siemens is planning on integrating Google Cloud’s data cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML) technologies with its factory automation tools. With this partnership, the companies hope manufacturers will …

Saudi Aramco’s investment arm was among a group of investors who awarded SR187.5 million ($50 million) to a Seattle-based manufacturing and technology software company. Seeq Corp. said it had raised the new funds as part of a Series C funding round as the group of investors backing the financing were …