Transparent and viscous, a new synthetic hydrogel from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers is taking cues from nature. The new hydrogel’s toughness is comparable to the bon... Read more
A team of Florida State University materials researchers has developed a new type of light-emitting diode, or LED, using an organic-inorganic hybrid that could lead to cheaper, brighter and... Read more
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University of Tokyo researchers have demonstrated an electrically-controllable valley current device that may pave the way to ultra-low-power valleytronics devices. On the atomic scale, matt... Read more
Hydrogen could be the ideal fuel: Whether used to make electricity in a fuel cell or burned to make heat, the only byproduct is water; there is no climate-altering carbon dioxide. Like gaso... Read more
Stanford engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert U.S. to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050 Mark Z. Jacobson and colleagues show that it’s technically possible for each stat... Read more
Up to 80 percent more cost effective to maintain – supposedly has a greater than 50 percent manufacturing cost advantage and a 40 percent reduction in its carbon footprint compared to... Read more
The global industrial sector accounts for more than half of the total energy used every year. Now scientists are inventing a new artificial photosynthetic system that could one day reduce in... Read more
A new aerodynamic device has the potential to reduce the energy consumption of supermarket refrigerators by up to 41.5 percent. The product, currently being developed by Williams Advanced En... Read more
Among the most important is space solar power, an emerging critical technology that can significantly help to address energy shortages In the future, clean alternatives such as harvesting en... Read more
University of British Columbia researchers have found a new way to make state-of-the-art materials for energy storage using a cheap lamp from the hardware store. “Storing electrical en... Read more
Sewage sludge, green waste, production residue from the food industry, straw or animal excrement – with the biobattery‘s modular concept a much larger range of biomass can be utilized for en... Read more
To halt climate change, the world desperately needs advances in clean energy. But in recent years, Silicon Valley, the nation’s engine for technical innovation, has turned its back on invest... Read more