Display screens with colored solar cells
A new kind of screen pixel doubles as a solar cell and could boost the energy efficiency of cell phones and e-readers. The technology...
Power source for implants by breathing energy
Instead of using traditional batteries as a power source which require to be cut for replacing them with new ones, now there are various...
How to bring sunlight into your home
The science of light and liquids has been intimately entwined since Léon Foucault discovered the speed of light in 1862, when he observed that...
New cheap nanomaterial to convert heat into electricity
Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes, from driving a car to flying an aircraft or operating a...
Faster than the speed of light
Brand new data from CERN indicates a particle that moves faster than the speed of light. If this really were the case, it would...
Super fast internet and graphene
What can you get when you combine graphene with metallic nanostructures? Improved harvesting light by graphene, which could potentially lead to super-fast Internet, a...
Studying antimatter
The entrapment of antimatter for 16 minutes allows for tests of the foundations of physics.
By successfully confining atoms of antihydrogen for an unprecedented 1,000...
Cell phones and the electromagnetic radiations could affect fertility
Cell phones, these very popular devices to harm our life without visible and immediate consequences are subject of debates about human body health.
Everybody knows...
New rechargeable nanomaterial for hydrogen storage
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to optimize a promising new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage.
During their testing of the...
A new MEMS device generates energy from low-frequency vibrations
Today’s wireless-sensor networks can do everything from supervising factory machinery to tracking environmental pollution to measuring the movement of buildings and bridges.
Working together, distributed...