Scientists Are Using Lightning in a Bottle to Turn Methane Into Methanol

The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...

Non-producing oil and gas wells may emit microbial methane at rates 1,000 times higher than previously estimated

Microbial methane leaking from non-producing oil and gas wells is being emitted at rates about 1,000 times higher than ...
Astronomy

Icy aquifers on Titan transform methane rainfall

The NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) Cassini mission has revealed hundreds of lakes and seas spread across the north polar region of Saturn’s moon Titan. These lakes are filled not with water but ...
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NASA’s Webb Identifies Methane In an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

The measured transit spectrum (top) and eclipse spectrum (bottom) of WASP-80 b from NIRCam’s slitless spectroscopy mode on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. In both spectra, there is clear evidence ...
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Prediction of the Biochemical Methane Potential for More Efficient Biogas Production

When manufacturing biogas, manufacturers aim for the maximum possible methane content, as methane is the combustible fraction of biogas. The composition of biogas, however, can differ significantly ...
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Non-producing oil and gas wells emit microbial methane at rates 1,000 times higher than previously estimated

Microbial methane leaking from non-producing oil and gas wells is being emitted at rates about 1,000 times higher than previously estimated, according to a new study led by McGill University ...