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A research team from Brown University has made a major step toward improving the long-term reliability of perovskite solar cells, an emerging clean energy technology….
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts recently passed a climate bill that sets a target of net-zero emissions for the state by the year 2050. The bill…
The concept of storing renewable energy in stones has come one step closer to realization with the construction of the GridScale demonstration plant. The plant…
How can I prepare myself for something I do not yet know? Scientists from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and from the Technical University…
Device can be used to illuminate dark, underground spaces in daytime. A team of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) researchers has designed a ‘smart’…
Lakes could be suitable for the extraction of methane for energy production. Lakes store huge amounts of methane. In a new study, environmental scientists at…
How an MIT engineering course became an incubator for fusion design innovations. “There is no lone genius who solves all the problems.” Dennis Whyte, director…
Researchers in the materials department in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering have uncovered a major cause of limitations to efficiency in a new generation…
Light modulation via optical MEMS microshutter and micromirror arrays could provide huge energy savings. Buildings are responsible for 40 percent of primary energy consumption and…
The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. New…
One prospective source of renewable energy is hydrogen gas produced from water with the aid of sunlight. Researchers at LiU have developed a material, nanoporous…
Copper remains one of the single most ubiquitous metals in everyday life. As a conductor of heat and electricity, it is utilized in wires, roofing,…
By using laser spectroscopy in a photophysics experiment, Clemson University researchers have broken new ground that could result in faster and cheaper energy to power…
2D materials combine, becoming polarized and giving rise to photovoltaic effect. For the first time, researchers have discovered a way to obtain polarity and photovoltaic…
Researchers at Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH develop ultrathin self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user’s pulse and blood pressure, which may lead to…
Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely powerful releases of energy, at a rate high enough to power the whole of the…
Solar, wind, and other alternative energy sources have incredible potential to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and yield environmental and economic benefits. But many…
The functioning of the enzyme FAP, useful for producing biofuels and for green chemistry, has been decrypted. This result mobilized an international team of scientists,…