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February 21 - A new hydrogen storage technology being commercialised by The University of Queensland spin-off company, Hydrexia Pty Ltd, could propel hydrogen gas into the mass market as an alternative green fuel. Hydrexia was established by UQ's commercialisation arm, UniQuest, to commercialise the hydrogen storage technology developed by Associate Professor Arne Dahle and Dr Kazuhiro Nogita from the Division of Materials Engineering.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3133.html

In other news (from PhysOrg.com):

CLUSTERS OF ALUMINUM ATOMS FOUND TO HAVE PROPERTIES OF OTHER ELEMENTS, February 21
research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens the door to using 'superatom chemistry' based on a new periodic table of cluster elements to create unique compounds with distinctive properties never seen before. The results of the research, headed jointly by Shiv N. Khanna, professor of physics at Virginia Commonwealth University and A. Welford Castleman Jr., the Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and Physics and the Eberly Family Distinguished Chair in Science at Penn State University, will be reported in the January 2005 issue of the journal Science.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3129.html

ULTRA-COLD TEMPERATURE PHYSICS OPENS WAY TO UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATIONS, February 21
Researchers doing ultra-cold temperature physics may not have to wear parkas, but they are producing the coldest temperatures ever and exploring model quantum systems that might lead to more accurate clocks and gyroscopes, quantum computers and communications as well as a better understanding of quantum physics phenomena.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3126.html

GLOBAL WARMING LED TO ATMOSPHERIC HYDROGEN SULFIDE AND PERMIAN EXTINCTION, February 21
Volcanic eruptions in Siberia 251 million years ago may have started a cascade of events leading to high hydrogen sulfide levels in the oceans and atmosphere and precipitating the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, according to a Penn State geoscientist.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3130.html

SCIENTISTS ADVANCE IN DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE, February 21
Access to the next generation of climate change experiments has helped scientists obtain more comprehensive estimates of the expected "signal" of human influences on climate.
Improved knowledge of this signal, and a better understanding of uncertainties in temperature observations, have helped to advance "detection and attribution" ("D&A") studies, which assist in unraveling the causes of recent climate change.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3127.html

CLIMATE CHANGE TO BRING A WAVE OF NEW HEALTH RISKS, February 21
As a result, governments and health officials need to begin to think about how to respond to an anticipated increase in the number and scope of climate-related health crises, ranging from killer heat waves and famine, to floods and waves of infectious diseases.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3125.html

CLEAR EVIDENCE OF HUMAN-PRODUCED WARMING IN WORLD'S OCEANS, February 19
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and their colleagues have produced the first clear evidence of human-produced warming in the world's oceans, a finding they say removes much of the uncertainty associated with debates about global warming. In a new study conducted with colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), Tim Barnett and David Pierce of Scripps Institution used a combination of computer models and real-world "observed" data to capture signals of the penetration of greenhouse gas-influenced warming in the oceans.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3118.html

ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS FOR FUTURE ENERGY PRODUCION, February 21
Nature utilizes energy from the sun for its production. Some algae produce hydrogen from water with the help of solar energy. So why not imitate nature to extract renewable energy without harming the environment? The EU is now giving European research a boost by allocating ?1.8 million to a new network to be led by Uppsala University.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3122.html