A growing proportion of the UK’s energy infrastructure is located at sea, in the form of oil and gas platforms and offshore wind farms along with the connecting cables and pipelines.
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Light Changes a Magnet’s Polarity
In a ferromagnet, combined forces are at work. In order for a compass needle to point north or a fridge magnet to stick to the fridge door, countless electron spins inside them, each of which only creates a tiny magnetic field, all need to line up in the same direction.
Fossilised Plankton Study Gives Long-Term Hope for Oxygen Depleted Oceans
A new study suggests the world’s oxygen depleted seas may have a chance of returning to higher oxygen concentrations in the centuries to come, despite our increasingly warming climate.
Greenland Ice Cap Vanished Just 7,000 Years Ago
The first study from GreenDrill—an ambitious project to recover rock samples buried thousands of feet beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet—finds that Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome ice cap had fully melted around 7,000 years ago, much more recently than previously thought.
Splitting Water: How Order and Disorder Direct Chemical Reactivity
New study reveals mechanism behind water ionization under electrochemical conditions.
Turning Industrial Exhaust Into Useful Materials With a New Electrode
Flue gas is exhausted from home furnaces, fireplaces and even industrial plants, and it carries polluting carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.


