Plant Dye Purpurin Creates Eco-Friendly Battery
Purpurin (1,2,4-Trihydroxyanthraquinon), a nontoxic dye used to color fabric in vivid oranges, reds, and pinks, could also be used to create eco-friendly, sustainable, lithium-ion batteries….
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Princeton’s Nanomesh Triples Solar Cell Efficiency
Researchers at Princeton University have used nanotechnology to develop a nanotechnological mesh that increases efficiency over organic solar cells nearly threefold. The scientists published their…
Apple Maps – 3 Times More Likely to Get You Lost Than Google
After having been deemed unsafe by the Australian government a couple of weeks back, iPhone users now have access to Google Maps and it hasn’t…
Liquid Metal Used in Ultra-Stretchable Conducting Wires
Researchers at the North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that are made out of liquid metal, with the ability to stretch eight times…
Calorie Tracking Apps Could Help Boost Weight Loss
There are quite a few different weight-loss apps and add-ons available on the market, and many of them are available on smartphones. These tools are…
Machine-Learning Algorithms Could Help Debunk Twitter Rumors
Twitter is one of the fastest and most comprehensive ways of staying abreast of breaking news. However, it’s not always easy to tell whether these…
Japan Could Host International Linear Collider
As most of the world is still dealing with the worst economic crisis in decades, Japan is currently being considered as the potential host for…
US National Ignition Facility Rethinks its Strategy for Laser Fusion
The failure of the US National Ignition Facility’s six-year campaign to demonstrate fusion in the lab has the government deciding on a more methodical path…
Foam Injections Could Prevent Deaths on the Battlefield
Future combat medics could save the lives of soldiers, preventing them from bleeding out on battlefields, by injecting medical foam into their bodies. The scientists…
“Silicon Nanophotonics” Integrates Optical Components with Electrical Circuits
IBM announced an advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals for information transmission in future computing applications. “Silicon nanophotonics” allows the…
Samarium Hexoboride Behaves Like a Topological Insulator
Samarium hexoboride, a compound that had been poorly understood and that can gain conducting properties at very low temperatures, may be a topological insulator in…
ALMA Will Allow Scientists to See the Universe Like Never Before
The largest ground-based radio telescope in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), can detect hidden gases inside galaxies that might hold the key…
Nanodevice Can Focus Light into a Point Just a Few Billionths of a Meter Across
Scientists at Caltech have created a new kind of waveguide. Made of amorphous silicon dioxide and covered in a thin layer of gold, the nanodevice…
Scattered Silver Cubes Scale Up Light Absorption for Solar Power
Nanoscale cubes of silver could help make more efficient solar panels, heat detectors and specialist cameras. The randomly scattered cubes were placed on pieces of…
New 3D Form of Graphene May Lead to Flexible Electronics
Graphene can support 50,000 times its own weight and can spring back into shape after being compressed by up to 80%. Graphene also has a…
Nanoparticle Blast Could Help Make Microscopic Matter
Scientists were able for the first time to capture on film a process that makes homogeneous metal oxide nanoparticles. This could pave the way for…
Satellites Could Be Used to Detect Nuclear Tests
Underground nuclear tests can be detected in the skies and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful tool in order to detect…
Yale Engineers Develop Micro Fuel Cells Made of Bulk Metallic Glasses
Made up of mostly bulk metallic glasses, a new type of micro fuel cell could serve as a low-cost, long-lasting, and eco-friendly power source for…
