“There’s going to be graveyards full of buried battery companies” PolyPlus partners with Johnson Controls and Corning to commercialize energy dense lithium-water, lithium-air, and lithium-sulfur batteries PolyPlus—a tiny, 27-person battery startup—has decided it needs to [...]

Delphi says its diesel-like engine runs cleanly on gasoline.   Delphi, a major parts supplier to automakers, is developing an engine technology that could improve the fuel economy of gas-powered cars by 50 percent, potentially [...]

A wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you’re thinking.   Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aural cues indicate each party’s state [...]

Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble. That’s bad news not just for the country’s economy but for the future of innovation. In a hangarlike building where General Electric once assembled steam turbines, a [...]

The company can produce solar cells for about 40 cents per watt Twin Creeks Technologies—a startup that has been operating in secret until today—has developed a way to make thin wafers of crystalline silicon that [...]

In a voice that sounds like yours Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours. Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the [...]

The results are promising   The ‘wonder material’ of modern science now promises all-printed, flexible and transparent graphene devices on more or less any surface Inkjet technology has been a revolution. First, there is digital [...]

Keeping up with Exploding Lithium Demand   In absolute terms, lithium is not particularly rare on Earth. It’s the 25th most abundant element, close to nickel and lead. Bolivia alone is estimated to have enough [...]

It may have made another sort of mistake in solar energy   The company had a head start on technology that allows solar cells to be manufactured more cheaply, but lost out to Chinese competitors. [...]

A method for getting oil out of tarry sands could reduce the costs and lower the greenhouse-gas emissions associated with its extraction. New technology for extracting oil from oil sands could more than double the [...]

A new lab is inventing innovative ways to package and install solar cells, with the aim of making solar energy far more affordable. Many companies and researchers are trying to increase the power output of [...]