Japan Closer to Harvesting Solar Energy from Space
Energy Inventions | Future Technology | Solar PowerSince 2008, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has been working hard to develop…
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To get more oomph from an electron gun, tip it with diamondoids
They sound like futuristic weapons, but electron guns are actually workhorse tools for research and industry: They emit streams of…
The road to longer battery life
Are you sick of your phone’s battery dying after only a few hours? Researchers are hard at work on improving…
Synthetic batteries for the energy revolution
A team of researchers made a decisive step towards a redox-flow battery which is simple to handle, safe and economical…
‘Greener’ way to assemble materials for solar applications
The efficiency of solar cells depends on precise engineering of polymers that assemble into films 1,000 times thinner than a…
Map shows how Michigan’s lead problem extends far beyond the Flint water crisis
Flint is Michigan’s poster child for environmental disaster — a crisis that could have been avoided. As my colleague Raven Rakia has…
Ringing in new way to measure, modulate trapped light
Researchers have developed a novel way to noninvasively measure and map how and where trapped light vibrates within microscale optical…