A pile of discarded cashew shells would normally have little to do with international shipping. In Maharashtra agricultural leftovers are being fed into reactors that can turn them into usable fuel, gases and biochar. The technology comes from an unusual India-Denmark partnership built around the Viking biomass gasifier developed at the Technical University of Denmark….

Scientists believe Mercury hides a massive diamond layer inside | Image Credit: Gemini Imagine a place where the floor beneath your feet isn’t soil and rock. It’s a sparkling, mile-thick layer of diamond. This sounds like the setting of a big-budget sci-fi movie. However, for Mercury, which is the tiniest and fastest planet of our…

There is evidence of a phantom gas leak occurring in the middle of the sea, which could contribute to a rapid increase in the destruction of the Earth’s climate. This is a newly discovered oceanic gas leak, which largely consists of methane leaking out of the ocean floors. Experts who study the phenomena of oceanic…