Light Therapy Could Treat Depression As Good As Prozac
Scientists are using bright light therapy to treat depression. This would be a new treatment option, no pills are involved so, Prozac may stand...
Organic Solar Cells Using Graphene Electrodes
The better manner of making solar cells inexpensive, lightweight and flexible is to use organic compounds instead of expensive and highly purified silicon.
Researchers had...
Graphene is the new electronic material for high-performance devices
That material, the focus of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics, is graphene – a fancy name for extremely thin layers of ordinary carbon...
Biorenewable polymers to repair themselves
Michael Kessler has worked with polymers that repair themselves when they crack. And he's worked with polymers made from vegetable oils. Now he's working...
Nanoengineered batteries could enable the next generation of high-power rechargeable batteries
New Nanoengineered Batteries Developed at Rensselaer Exhibit Remarkable Power Density, Charging More Than 40 Times Faster Than Today’s Lithium-ion Batteries
An entirely new type of...
New Solar Technologies to Generate Clean Electricity and Hydrogen Fuel
Chemists at the University at Buffalo have synthesized a new class of photosensitizing dyes that greatly increase the efficiency of light-driven systems that produce...
Super-Fast Quantum Computer Better Controlled at Building Blocks
Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands have succeeded in controlling...
Green Buildings Signs of the Minimum Heat Loss
If you want to define a green building, a building which keeps most energy inside, you’ll see that is not easy because of many...
Global Warming Evidence in a Single Graphic
A summary graphic of just some evidence for global warming is showed in this picture adapted from “The Guide to Global Warming Skepticism”.
This is...