New Technique Allows for Rapid Solar Cell Screening
The worldwide quest by researchers to find better, more efficient materials for tomorrow’s solar panels is usually slow and painstaking. Researchers typically must produce lab…
The worldwide quest by researchers to find better, more efficient materials for tomorrow’s solar panels is usually slow and painstaking. Researchers typically must produce lab…
First nanotechnological approach enables the design and replication of complex single-stranded DNA and RNA origami with potential for drug delivery and nanofabrication. Nanotechnologists are using…
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have found a way to direct the growth of hydrogel, a jelly-like…
Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and…
We have a long history of yelling at our machines — cars that break down, televisions broadcasting our failing teams. But now, our machines understand us. And…
Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read by the light of a glowing plant on your desk….
Cell biologists traditionally use fluorescent dyes to label and visualize cells and the molecules within them under a microscope. With different super-resolution microscopy methods, they…
New research at the University of Waterloo could lead to the development of batteries that triple the range of electric vehicles. The breakthrough involves the…
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in…
Incorporating guanidinium into perovskite solar cells stabilizes their efficiency at 19% for 1000 hours under full-sunlight testing conditions. The study, carried out by EPFL, is…
Researchers from the University of Warwick have developed a new ‘double-glazing’ solar power device, which is unlike any existing solar panel and opens up fresh…
By shrinking samples of metallic glass to nanoscale size, Yale scientists have discovered they can create new materials with potentially new applications. The research, published…
EPFL researchers have teamed up with startup Xsensio to develop a tiny, fully portable system that can encapsulate and analyze biomarkers in a person’s sweat….
Engineers from MIT have developed a 3D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from genetically programmed living cells. The cells are…
“Two-dimensional materials” — materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick — are promising for both high-performance electronics and flexible, transparent electronics…
Imagine working in an office where, once you’ve finished one task, you had to wait until everyone in all the other cubicles completed the tasks…
Imagine a microscopic gold pill that could travel to a specific location in your body and deliver a drug just where it is needed. This…
Engineers at MIT have developed a new desktop 3D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than existing commercial counterparts. Whereas the most common…