Platinum is one of the rarest metals on earth. Only a few hundred tons of it are produced annually, which makes items such as catalytic converters and jewelry expensive. Its desirability as a metal is mostly because of its...
Hundreds of thousands of building operators around the world struggle with building efficiency, there are alternatives to current single-pane window technology. The problem is, while single-pane windows are extremely inefficient, replacing them could be prohibitively expensive.
In the face of...
Until now, the only Nissan electric vehicles , such as the Nissan Leaf, that could be found in China, had to be imported. Thousands of Nissan Leaf have been imported into china since 2011, but in a recent press...
It is interesting how not everyone is aware of the range of greenhouse gases that are harmful to the environment and could have devastating effects when released in the atmosphere. One of these not-so-well-known gases, yet 300 times more...
The latest UN Environment Programme report (UNEP) states that average temperatures are likely to rise by three to five degrees Celsius (5.4 to 9.0 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century. In order to prevent this and be...
A group of Russian scientists detected new signs of climate change. By exploring 42 of the 191 archipelago islands they were able to identify newly arrived species from the south. They account this to the thinning of the ice...
Solar cells and LED displays may get new life, thanks to researchers at King’s College London. The Biophysics and Nanotechnology Group can now separate colors and manipulate rainbows using nanoscale structures on a metal surface.
Using specifically designed nanostructures, researchers...
San Jose-based SolFocus may serve as a harbinger of things to come for the solar panel industry. Admitting financial difficulty, SolFocus has announced that the latest rounds of venture capital investment have fallen through, and in order to survive,...
Researchers have determined that water splitting can produce clean energy hydrogen and use small metal particles exposed to sunlight to perform the splitting. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory used gold particles less than one nanometer...
At the recent Electronica exhibition held in Munich, Germany, the CEO panel discussion that comprised of four bosses of the semiconductor industry focused on one essential topic – the smart grid challenge, a vision that aims to provide improvements...
