Rows of aluminium studs help solar panels extract more energy from sunlight than those with flat surfaces. Most solar cells used in homes and industry are made using thick layers of material... Read more
Certainly one of the more intriguing things on display at this year’s Paris Air Show, the Sherpa by Belgian startup Sagita aims to make the helicopter simpler, more efficient, more rel... Read more
Architect Vincent Callebaut’s “Asian Cairn” project imagines a future where we house residences, offices, and even entire food systems in gorgeous, stacked skyscrapers. These inc... Read more
“It’s amazing that by studying a fish gill, this team created a design that could impact water infrastructure on a world-wide scale.” Inspired by fish gills, newt tadpoles, and human a... Read more
But in an ideal superconductor, no electricity is ever lost. A team of researchers from Russia, Spain, Belgium, the U.K. and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory... Read more
The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Bel... Read more
Curved LCD display holds widespread potential for medical and cosmetic applications The Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), imec’s associated laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium),... Read more
This isn’t the only prosthesis with an actuated ankle, but the low power is key. The majority of protheses available today that replace the lower leg, ankle, and foot are passive devic... Read more
The self-steering autonomous tractor could soon see tractors working the fields on their own Many of us are eagerly awaiting the widespread adoption of autonomous cars to free us from the ha... Read more