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The European Union has a goal of significantly cutting automobile carbon emissions by 2025, but without increasing the number of electric and hybrid cars on the road, that goal won’t be met. Ricardo-AEA conducted a study that has begun a...
If a consortium of universities in the United Kingdom meet their goal, a technology to deliver internet communications will be created that could simultaneously be used to provide lighting and used as information displays. Li-Fi technology, or transmissions of internet...
A recent study published in the Journal of American Chemical Society entitled “Direct Electrodeposition of Crystalline Silicon at Low Temperatures” details how researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new method for producing crystalline silicon. Crystalline silicon is...
Iron-oxidizing bacteria can now grow without iron- they can use electricity instead. This is the conclusion reached by a team of scientists at the the BioTechnology Institute at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, led by Daniel Bond. The...
A new type of smart grid is taking its cues from the Internet by using distributed and decentralized power grid management. Three year old Gridco Systems, a startup founded by Namish Patel, the entrepreneur who founded Sycamore Networks, is using...
The list of consequences from climate change seems to expand constantly, as scientists across the globe continue to establish relationships between various factors and rising temperatures. A recent study conducted by a team of scientists led by Sherry Towers, research...
Hut-to-Hut is the result of a workshop organised by Rintala Eggertsson Architects and some students from the University of Science and Technology in Norway to design and construct a practical, eco-friendly home in India’s Western Ghats region. Built with locally-produced...
When his age mates were likely just getting to grips with their roles in the world as young ones, Vanis Buckholz, at the age of 10 had already made his mark on the world with his very own recycling...
Researchers may have found a way to reduce the negative environmental impact of electronic devices. Massimo Capone and Gianluca Giovannetti of Istituto Officina dei Materiali at CNR and of the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste (SISSA) have created...
Researchers have discovered that an exotic form of silicon may improve solar cell efficiency. This predicted improvement using a structure of silicon called silicon BC8 was detailed in the January edition of the journal Physical Review Letters, and is based...