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Proof of concept: Currently, the individual cells of the novel battery measure only about 1 x 3 millimeters. Image: Empa

Revolutionary rechargeable batteries that can be charged and discharged in just one minute

Space-Based Solar Power can work for the Earth and the Moon

This is how the IR spectrometer works: The photodetector, fabricated on top of a surface optical waveguide, consists of a bottom gold electrode at the bottom functioning as a scattering center, a photoactive layer (consisting of colloidal mercury telluride – HgTe – quantum dots), and a top gold electrode. By moving the mirror, the measured photocurrent maps the light intensity of the standing wave. i.e. the IR light. A Fourier transformation of the measured signal gives the optical spectra. Image: Lars Lüder

Infrared detectors on-a-chip changes the whole spectrometer field

Controlling robots from afar with robust communications

Suitcase-sized CubeSat is the smallest spacecraft to perform its own independent mission heading for an asteroid

Building a highly accurate digital twin of our planet to better prepare for extreme events

Tests performed by astronauts on the ISS suggest that bacteria can extract useful materials from rocks on Mars and the Moon

A graphene light sail for interplanetary travel

Making air out of moondust

Monitoring ocean carbon via satellite

How lunar soil could provide heat and energy for habitation

3D-printing skin and bone so astronauts might heal themselves on missions

An electric thruster that ingests scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere as propellant for low-orbit satellites

“Polar-Sitting” Orbit via Solar Sailing

Space-eye-view could help stop global wildlife decline