New High-Performance DIY Battery Made from Scrap Metal Discharges as Quickly as Supercaps

Did you always think high-performance batteries (except for the lemon-copper-zinc experiment) can only be produced in factories? I did too, until today. Well, now a team of...

Scientists Just Made Rewritable Paper Real

Paper waste is one of the biggest environmental issues we're facing nowadays. A team of researchers has come up with an interesting solution to...

Scientists Closer to Building Energy Harvesting Computers

Energy-harvesting computers might soon become a reality, as scientists develop a new method to make them reliable. It is a dream-come-true for every programmer- the...

Vertical Walking System to Replace Energy-hungry Elevators

Dutch designers created a unique concept, called Vertical Walking, which can replace energy and maintenance-hungry elevators in high buildings. Internet is flooded with articles that...

India Unveils its Second Green Airport

Indian Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi, has inaugurated India's second green airport in Vadodara last Saturday. The first one was unveiled in Kochi last...

Teenager Develops $5 Device to Harness Wind and Solar Power

Thirteen years old Maanasa Mendu developed a $5-wind and solar hybrid system to generate renewable energy. Teenagers often manage to amaze us with their forward...

Lithium-Ion Electrodes Made Alongside with Beer

Scientists grew electrodes for lithium-ion batteries in the water discarded during the process of beer production. The latest invention in the field of energy storage...

How Spent Coffee Grounds Could Clean Waters from Two Toxic Metals

Lead and mercury-contaminated waters may soon be treated with something that you leave behind every morning: coffee grounds. A team of italian researchers have published...

MIT’s New Lithium-Ion Battery Could Be The Future of Electric Cars

Qichao Hu, the CEO at MIT’s SolidEnergy Systems, invented a lithium-ion battery that will last twice as long but smaller by half. This battery is...

Bike Couriers Used to Map London Air Pollution

What if you could visualize the air quality around you, in real-time, as you are traveling around London? You better believe it to be...