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Researchers Find a Way to Tap into Long-Lived Sound Waves in Glass

Researchers Find a Way to Tap into Long-Lived Sound Waves in Glass

  Researchers Find a Way to Tap into Long-Lived Sound Waves in Glass Laser light generates and probes sound waves in the core of a fiber optic waveguide. A newly…

Scientists Get Antimatter Excited, See First Light

Scientists Get Antimatter Excited, See First Light

  Scientists Get Antimatter Excited, See First Light Scientists have used a laser to tickle atoms of antimatter and make them shine, a key step toward answering one of the…

Solar cells with a dark side may be in your future

Solar cells with a dark side may be in your future

  Solar cells with a dark side may be in your future Balancing flow of energy through a molecule to improve solar energy performance. Chris Lee Enlarge Dr. Sebastian Schulz,…

Scientists build bacteria-powered battery on single sheet of paper

Scientists build bacteria-powered battery on single sheet of paper

  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…

One step closer to reality: Devices that convert heat into electricity

One step closer to reality: Devices that convert heat into electricity

    One step closer to reality: Devices that convert heat into electricity Scanning transmission electron microscope image of a nickel-platinum composite material created at The Ohio State University. At…

Emergency Heat: The 6 Best Ways To Stay Warm When Disaster Strikes

Emergency Heat: The 6 Best Ways To Stay Warm When Disaster Strikes

  Emergency Heat: The 6 Best Ways To Stay Warm When Disaster Strikes Written by: Rich M Extreme Survival Because they are a fire hazard and a source of toxic…

(Video)Iran: Iranian scientist takes his water-powered car for a spin

(Video)Iran: Iranian scientist takes his water-powered car for a spin

    Iran: Iranian scientist takes his water-powered car for a spin…

U.S. researchers develop device to harvest energy from human motion

U.S. researchers develop device to harvest energy from human motion

U.S. researchers develop device to harvest energy from human motion The movement of finger swipes may soon be able to charge our cellphones. Researchers at Michigan State University has created…

There Is Trouble Brewing Below The Surface

There Is Trouble Brewing Below The Surface

  There Is Trouble Brewing Below The Surface   With stocks hitting new all-time highs and the dollar surging, there is trouble brewing below the surface. Too many S&P 500…

Plant a Wind Tree in your neighborhood to generate energy from low-speed wind

Plant a Wind Tree in your neighborhood to generate energy from low-speed wind

  Plant a Wind Tree in your neighborhood to generate energy from low-speed wind Bruce Brown,Digital Trends  Subscribe on YouTube These trees do more than just add ambiance. Harnessing the…

‘Star in a Jar’ Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy

‘Star in a Jar’ Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy

  ‘Star in a Jar’ Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy By Glenn McDonald, Seeker Credit: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology For several decades now, scientists from around…

Batteries included – home charging begins to spread

Batteries included – home charging begins to spread

  Batteries included – home charging begins to spread MercuryNews.com \ Bill Coleman needed to replace the roof on his Los Altos home. The tech entrepreneur decided to package new roof tiles with…

A watershed moment in understanding how water conducts electricity

A watershed moment in understanding how water conducts electricity

  A watershed moment in understanding how water conducts electricity Scientists have taken spectroscopic snapshots of nature’s most mysterious relay race: the passage of extra protons from one water molecule…

Can Nikola revolutionize the trucking industry with a hydrogen-powered semi?

Can Nikola revolutionize the trucking industry with a hydrogen-powered semi?

  Can Nikola revolutionize the trucking industry with a hydrogen-powered semi? Ronan Glon,Digital Trends Fulfilling a promise it made months ago, a Utah-based startup named Nikola Motor Company has unveiled…

Researchers create first ‘water-wave laser’

Researchers create first ‘water-wave laser’

    Researchers create first ‘water-wave laser’ Artist’s impression. Credit: Image courtesy of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Technion researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that laser emissions…

Solar-Panel Roads to Be Built on Four Continents Next Year

Solar-Panel Roads to Be Built on Four Continents Next Year

  Solar-Panel Roads to Be Built on Four Continents Next Year Anna Hirtenstein,Bloomberg  Electric avenues that can transmit the sun’s energy onto power grids may be coming to a city…

Tesla powers an entire island with solar energy to flex its mighty panels

Tesla powers an entire island with solar energy to flex its mighty panels

  Tesla powers an entire island with solar energy to flex its mighty panels The Next Web Tesla completed its $2.6 million buyout of SolarCity this week, but it’s already showing off…

Glow-in-the-dark dye could fuel liquid-based batteries

Glow-in-the-dark dye could fuel liquid-based batteries

  Glow-in-the-dark dye could fuel liquid-based batteries A dye called BODIPY has special chemical properties that could facilitate energy storage A glowing solution of BODIPY dye is swirled under a…

New records set up with ‘Screws of Light’

New records set up with ‘Screws of Light’

  New records set up with ‘Screws of Light’ Screw of light on the 143 km long way between the canary islands of La Palma and Tenerife. Credit: University Vienna…

(Video)Already impacting over 70million people, Singer Akon on project aiming to expand solar energy in Africa

(Video)Already impacting over 70million people, Singer Akon on project aiming to expand solar energy in Africa

  Singer Akon on project aiming to expand solar energy in Africa  …

‘Back to the Future’ inspires solar nanotech-powered clothing

‘Back to the Future’ inspires solar nanotech-powered clothing

  ‘Back to the Future’ inspires solar nanotech-powered clothing The proof-of-concept shows that the filaments could be laced throughout jackets or other outwear to harvest and store energy to power…

Breakthrough in the quantum transfer of information between matter and light

Breakthrough in the quantum transfer of information between matter and light

  Breakthrough in the quantum transfer of information between matter and light New research is paving the way to producing quantum communications networks. (stock image) Credit: © agsandrew / Fotolia…

Scientists Generate the Fastest Electric Current Ever Measured Inside a Solid Material

Scientists Generate the Fastest Electric Current Ever Measured Inside a Solid Material

  Scientists Generate the Fastest Electric Current Ever Measured Inside a Solid Material Light pulses generate Multi-PHz electric current in bulk solids. The emitted extreme ultraviolet radiation allows scientists to…

Next-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut

Next-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut

       Next-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut   Computer visualisation of villi-like battery material. Credit: Teng Zhao  A new prototype of a lithium-sulphur battery — which could…

Book-sized battery can power a TV for 4 hours or a mini-fridge for 8

Book-sized battery can power a TV for 4 hours or a mini-fridge for 8

    Book-sized battery can power a TV for 4 hours or a mini-fridge for 8 With enough juice to power a smartphone 28 times, the two-pound Plug is still…

Engineers design ultralow power transistors that could function for years without a battery

Engineers design ultralow power transistors that could function for years without a battery

Engineers design ultralow power transistors that could function for years without a battery A newly-developed form of transistor opens up a range of new electronic applications including wearable or implantable…

When quantum scale affects the way atoms emit and absorb particles of light

When quantum scale affects the way atoms emit and absorb particles of light

  When quantum scale affects the way atoms emit and absorb particles of light Exact simulation lifts the 80-year-old mystery of the degree to which atoms can be dressed with…

Carbon nanospikes can convert CO2 into Ethaol with a 63% yield and a room temperature reaction

Carbon nanospikes can convert CO2 into Ethaol with a 63% yield and a room temperature reaction

  Carbon nanospikes can convert CO2 into Ethaol with a 63% yield and a room temperature reaction   Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed…

MIT Physicists Simulate a Magnetar to Seek Dark Matter Particle

MIT Physicists Simulate a Magnetar to Seek Dark Matter Particle

    MIT Physicists Simulate a Magnetar to Seek Dark Matter Particle Broadband/Resonant Approach to Cosmic Axion Detection with an Amplifying B-field Ring Apparatus), consists of a series of magnetic…

The so-called Western civilized world doesn’t even have one: S Africa launches continent’s first solar-powered airport

The so-called Western civilized world doesn’t even have one: S Africa launches continent’s first solar-powered airport

  S Africa launches continent’s first solar-powered airport South Africa has launched the continent’s first solar-powered airport. George Airport located in the South African town of the same name, is…