Japanese company develops a solar cell with record-breaking 26%+ efficiency Ars Technica Solar panels are cheaper than ever these days, but installation costs can still be considerable for homeowners. More…
Researchers flip magnetic memory cell with light pulse at record speed One modification researchers made to the device was to use a transparent electrical material called indium tin oxide for…
Astronomers Reveal Superluminous Supernova Gaia16apd is Powered by a Magnetar An artist’s conception of a magnetar, with its magnetic field lines. A team of astronomers studying the superluminous supernova Gaia6apd…
Newly Discovered Phenomenon Shows Electrons Can Move Much Faster Than Expected In this illustration, the orange surface represents the potential energy needed to get an electron moving, and the “valley”…
Iran-CIS relations will turn region into world energy hub: Zarif Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (C-3R) meets with ambassadors of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Tehran on…
Scientists Measure Temperature Swings of Black Hole Winds for the First Time This artist’s concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with X-ray emission emanating from its inner region (pink) and…
Wires and supercapacitors constructed inside living plants This is a supercapacitor Rose from Laboratory of Organic Electronic, Linköping University. Credit: Thor Balkhed In November 2015, the research group presented…
Light-driven reaction converts carbon dioxide into fuel Illuminated rhodium nanoparticles catalyze key chemistry Duke University researchers have engineered rhodium nanoparticles (blue) that can harness the energy in ultraviolet light and…
The Cheap, Easy-To-Make Survival Lamp Your Great-Grandparents Used Written by: Steve Coffman Extreme Survival Imagine you are sitting in a log cabin, or perhaps hunkered down in a…
Dream of energy-collecting windows is one step closer to reality While most of the light concentrated to the edge of the silicon-based luminescent solar concentrator is actually invisible, we…
Scientists discover how essential methane catalyst is made New ways to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane gas for energy use are a step closer after scientists discovered how…
Battery developed at OSU uses only hydronium ions as charge carrier Researchers with Oregon State University (OSU) have developed they claim to be the world’s first battery to use only…
New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects UChicago researchers achieved levitation of macroscopic objects between warm and cold plates in a vacuum chamber. Credit: Chicago Jean…
Printable solar cells just got a little closer Research removes a key barrier to large-scale manufacture of low-cost, printable perovskite solar cells The new perovskite solar cells have achieved an…
A Newly Discovered Mineral Can Convert Movement, Sunlight and Heat Into Electricity at the Same Time Many forms of energy surrounds us every day and most of it is…
New, long-lasting flow battery could run for more than a decade with minimum upkeep Battery stores energy in nontoxic, noncorrosive aqueous solutions Flow batteries are a promising storage solution for…
Building a better microbial fuel cell, using paper A schematic illustration of a microbial fuel cell using a paper electrode coated with carbon paste. Credit: Illustration by Michael…
And just like that, China becomes the world’s largest solar power producer Lulu Chang Digital Trends china solar energy shanghai panels Not only is it the world’s most populous…
Thin, flexible, light-absorbent material for energy and stealth applications This is a near-perfect broadband absorber that’s thin, flexible and transparent in visible light. Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of…
Philippines invasive plant could fuel the country’s kitchens Reuters Videos…
Now you can fuel electric cars with nothing but the sun CNBC Envision Solar created a charging station that can be dropped in a parking spot to charge EVs…
Move over Bear Grylls! Academics build ultimate solar-powered water purifier The device could aid people lacking drinking water and those affected by natural disasters This is a floating solar still…
Fermi Reveals the Most Extreme Blazars to Date Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA’s Fermi. As matter falls toward the supermassive black hole at…
Physics: Toward a practical nuclear pendulum Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich have, for the first time, measured the lifetime of an excited state in the nucleus of an unstable element.…
For this metal, electricity flows, but not the heat Law-breaking property in vanadium dioxide could lead to applications in thermoelectrics, window coatings Vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanobeams synthesized by Berkeley researchers…
Graphene’s superconductive power has finally been unlocked, and it’s crazier than we expected Okay, wow. FIONA MACDONALD It’s official: graphene has been made into a superconductor in its…
MIT Engineers Design New 3D Forms of Graphene This illustration shows the simulation results of tensile and compression tests on 3-D graphene. A team of engineers at MIT has successfully…
Lightweight, flexible solar panels may be more efficient than competitors’ A California-based solar energy company called Sunflare is offering solar panels it hopes will help innovate the industry. After years of…
Meet the new geopolitical geo-strategic juggernaut. With China gaining control over the strategic port in Sri Lanka along with the Gwadar port in Pakistan (See Here: Chinese State Firm…
Scientists build bacteria-powered battery on single sheet of paper Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have created a bacteria-powered battery on a single sheet of paper that…