Collaborate Disseminate
Scientists have discovered the fossil of what may be the earliest multicellular animal ever found. Dating back a billion years, the microscopic fossil contains two distinct cell types, potentially making it an ancestor to advanced animals.Continue Read… Continue reading Billion-year old fossil may be first multicellular animal
Scotland’s Orbital Marine Power (formerly Scotrenewables) has completed the build on what it claims will be the world’s most powerful operational tidal turbine. It’s now on its way to the Orkney Islands, where it’ll have a chance to prove its worth con… Continue reading Orbital launches O2, the “most powerful tidal turbine in the world”
It’s just two days since former SNP leader Alex Salmond launched a brand new political party to campaign for an independent Scotland.
And already it has suffered a data breach. Continue reading Alex Salmond’s Alba party website leaks data in IDOR foul-up
Nova Innovation has announced the installation of the first electric vehicle charge point powered by tidal energy, which is located on the island of Yell in the Shetlands.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Tidal Energy, Scotland, Electric V… Continue reading First tidal-powered EV charging point installed in Shetland Islands
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has confirmed that it is continuing to respond to an ongoing ransomware attack that has encrypted files, disrupted systems and seen 1.2 GB of data stolen by cybercriminals.
Read more in my article on… Continue reading Scottish environmental agency still struggling after Christmas Eve ransomware attack
UK gas distributor SGN has been given approval to supply hydrogen produced using renewables to around 300 Scottish homes. Participating households should be able to start heating their homes and cooking their meals with the gas from the end of 2022.Con… Continue reading Approval granted for project to heat homes using green hydrogen
Data centers are fast becoming one of the most power-hungry industries, since they require such heavy-duty cooling and maintenance. Microsoft has now finished a two-year test of an unconventional solution – dropping a data center to the bottom of the s… Continue reading Microsoft retrieves its experimental underwater data center
As renewable energy generation grows, so does the need for new storage methods that can be used at times when the Sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing. A Scottish company called Gravitricity has now broken ground on a demonstrator facility for a… Continue reading Prototype gravity-based energy storage system begins construction
Two of my friends and I crammed into a small and aged European hatchback, drove all day along hundreds of miles of motorway, and finally through a succession of ever smaller roads. We were heading for a set of GPS co-ordinates in the north of Scotland, along with all of …read more
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Archaeologists from the Universities of Southampton and Reading have determined that some of Scotland’s famous lake dwellings are older than Stonehenge. Called “crannogs,” the little artificial islands made out of piled rocks have yielded pot… Continue reading Scottish crannogs may be older than Stonehenge