How a battery material works
MIT team uncovers a reason why the hottest new material for rechargeable batteries works so well.
Since its discovery 15 years ago, lithium iron phosphate...
Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels
Engineers at Stanford have created photovoltaic nanoshells that harness a peculiar physical phenomenon to better trap light in the solar materials. The results could...
Pacemaker powered by heartbeat vibrations
Because of this reason the researchers have searched for ways to prolong battery life.
They started to generate energy to power a pacemaker using blood...
The effects of climate change in the Arctic
Two decades after the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”,...
Energy efficiency of robots modeled along studies on ants and snakes
The nature is the main source of inspiration for each important project. The Georgia Tech University has received a grant from National Science Foundation...
The biodiversity crisis: Worse than climate change
Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world’s species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of...
Climate balancing: sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates
Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team...
Europe’s birds and climate change
For the past 20 years, the climate in Europe has been getting warmer.
Species of bird and butterfly which thrive in cool temperatures therefore need...
Hydrogen and graphene
Graphene has engendered high expectations whereof its extreme properties depend on the fact that it consists of a single sheet of carbon atoms.
However the...
The new ice age could start in the next millennium
Research shows that a new ice age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2...