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A new technology designed by scientists at the British consultancy BMT Group is supposed to reduce the time it takes to detect a pollutant in water from weeks to... Read More »
Clean energy development is proving to be a more innovative reality at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless... Read More »
Most common infectious diseases, which impact millions of people each year, are caused by bacteria and viruses that are either consumed through improperly... Read More »
A new study has found that small bumps have an unexpectedly large effect on the paths that electrons follow on the semiconductor gallium arsenide. This nano-effect is ... Read More »
Twenty-eight proves tough-for-business...
Ever since late last year when we heard about difficulties foundries were having with the latest-and-greatest (and... Read More »
Fundamentally, most of the energy we use on the earth comes from the sun -- from fossil fuels to wind and photovoltaics. Nature has been evolutionarily perfecting... Read More »
Graphene is a promising replacement for the materials with which we currently construct electronics. Particularly in the field of solar technology, graphene is useful ... Read More »
Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the economy has revolved around supply and demand, encouraging the development of new inventions to improve efficiency... Read More »
Professor Shin Jung Hoon’s team from the Department of Physics and the Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology at the Korean Advanced Institute of... Read More »
A team at Korean Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST) has developed new forms of low cost, large-area nanogenerator technology using piezoelectric ceramic... Read More »
The Power Conversion -- Intelligent Motion (PCIM) conference kicks off today in Nuremburg, Germany, and touts record-setting attendance for a power electronics... Read More »
Synergy Dairy owner John Noble has will not only be selling milk to local cheese factories this year, but has also incorporated cow manure as an added opportunity... Read More »
The nation's current electric grid is so backward and inflexible that to integrate more sources of renewable energy ironically requires more power plants... Read More »
Dye-sensitized solar cells are not an entirely new technology. By coating standard semiconductors in photovoltaic cells, researchers are able to increase the amount... Read More »
While scientists worldwide work to develop novel materials to increase photovoltaic solar cell efficiency, researchers from the Loo Lab at Princeton University are... Read More »
The impending scarcity of many valuable resources on our planet has had people searching for and utilizing other energy sources. Although researchers have studied and ... Read More »
Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have discovered how plants can make the 'decision' between growth and defense, a finding that could help them... Read More »
A team from Kansas State University is researching climate change and how the effects of rainfall and weather patterns throughout Kansas help with future adaptation... Read More »
Saving energy and greener methods of generating energy are always at the forefront of peoples’ minds during the spring time, especially around Earth Day... Read More »
Researchers have provided new insight and a new model for dealing with deepwater oil spills since the Deepwater Horizon oil platform blowout. The study, produced ... Read More »