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Surprising result: Graphene retains its properties even when coated with silicon Graphene has extreme conductivity and is completely transparent while being inexpensive and nontoxic. This makes it a perfect candidate material for transparent contact layers for use in solar cells to conduct electricity without reducing the amount of incoming light  – at least in theory.

The millions of years of natural selection that lies behind the immense biodiversity found on our planet is fertile ground for keeping robotics research rolling … in this case, literally. Some caterpillars in the Crambidae family have the amazing ability to spring into a wheel shape and roll away when it’s time to get out

MIT researchers discover astonishing behavior of water confined in carbon nanotubes. It’s a well-known fact that water, at sea level, starts to boil at a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius. And scientists have long observed that when water is confined in very small spaces, its boiling and freezing points can change

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World-first QUT research that has produced a golden-orange fleshed banana, rich in pro-vitamin A, has been published today in the prestigious Plant Biotechnology Journal. Key points: QUT has produced Ugandan bananas high in pro-vitamin A Cooking bananas are the staple food in rural Uganda Worldwide 650 000 – 750 000 children die from vitamin A deficiency

Image by Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) / Stéphane Massa-Bidal via Flickr Environmental Engineers Use Algae To Capture Carbon Dioxide Engineers have designed a simple, sustainable and natural carbon sequestration solution using algae. A team at Ohio University created a photo bioreactor that uses photosynthesis to grow algae, passing carbon dioxide over large membranes, placed vertically to save

If the Bugs Can Be Worked Out IBM-led research to create lithium-air electric vehicle batteries gets a boost from Japanese chemical companies toward the goal of 800 kilometers out of a full charge. Researchers predict a new type of lithium battery under development could give an electric car enough juice to travel a whopping 800

Billions of dollars lost each year as waste heat from industrial processes can be converted into electricity with a technology being developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The high-efficiency thermal waste heat energy converter actively cools electronic devices, photovoltaic cells, computers and large waste heat-producing systems while generating electricity, according to

It has not previously been possible to prove the exact origin of any particular fish Powerful and versatile new genetic tools that will assist in safeguarding both European fish stocks and European consumers is reported in Nature Communications. The paper reports on the first system proven to identify populations of fish species to a forensic

With their special microscopes, experimental physicists can already observe single molecules. However, unlike conventional light microscopes, the raw image data from some ultra-high resolution instruments first have to be processed for an image to appear. For the ultra-high resolution fluorescence microscopy that is also employed in biophysical research at Bielefeld University, members of the Biomolecular