Globally, there are just over one billion vehicles on the roads, and they all share one common thing. Whether conventional, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or extended-range electric, they all have an internal combustion engine.
Of course, I left out battery electric...
Houseplants bring that little zing of life in every room, brightening up even the gloomiest day. But besides looking pretty, houseplants can actually serve a much bigger purpose, which even the biggest indoor green lovers might not be aware...
Although it has been around for quite a while, wave energy has not managed to compete with the big guys- wind and solar. The Scotish firm Albatern, however, might be on the way to change this with their scalable...
Nearly 200 countries are being represented at the COP20 climate change talks, taking place over the next couple of weeks, in Lima, the capital of Peru.
Even though climate change is no longer recognized as a “possibility,” but as “current...
The solution to plastic pollution might just have been discovered. A team of US scientists developed a material out of fructose that functions just like regular plastics but it breaks down as soon as it is exposed to a...
Air pollution poses a serious health risk, causing painful and often deadly heart and lung disease, as well as being the reason for millions of premature deaths around the world. Everyone knows the solution- "Stop Polluting!", yet secretly there...
Myths and legends say that magnesium-sulfur hold the key to better and cheaper energy storage. New research from the German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's (KIT's) Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) might actually have brought it closer to viability, by developing...
We have a bunch of electric vehicles driving around, but none are as iconic as the Tesla Model S. In its current incarnation, the P85D, it resembles a gas-guzzling sports car more than the golf cart which it shares...
The smart watch is seen as the next big thing. That is why Samsung, LG, Sony and Pebble beat Apple to the punch in introducing their respective Android-based smart watches, they tried to gain market share ahead of the...
Every cloud has a silver lining, or so they say. So these researchers from Stanford University took a cue from that and tried to make a paint to help keep buildings cool with photonics radiative cooling.
Say what? It's basically...
