Ferrari boss Amedeo Felisa once said having only 6 cylinders in a respectable car was unthinkable. However, thank God mentalities do change and this is no longer the case. So Ferrari can safely think about their introduction, as part...
A new technology developed by scientists at the EPFL in Switzerland (where organic solar cells were invented) that allows for a 1 small satellite weighing 1 kg to travel from the Earth to the Moon with 100 grams of...
By analyzing 40 years worth of satellite imagery of West Antarctica, scientists from the University of Texas have recently concluded that the floating ice shelves are losing their grip on the bay walls that used to sustain them. This situation...
A new magnesium fuel cell using saltwater as electrolyte is now being commercialized by Tokyo-based Furukawa Battery, a company specialized in power systems.
The electrolyte, just like in any other fuel cell, carries charged particles from one electrode to another,...
Is it just me or this car looks like an alien spaceship? And the name suggests it too: Bizzarrini, which makes you think of bizarre... Well, apparently it's not what its creator Coventry University Transport Design graduate Borys Dabrowski...
The inventor, Aaron Fyke, says his gravel-energy storage system is more efficient and 40% cheaper than pumped hydro, and can be installed virtually anywhere there's a hill and can be scaled up to virtually any size.
With the ascent of...
Just when you thought that the miracles of the Amazonian forest are all known to man, a team of Yale researchers has just found out that a certain fungus living in the rain forest can actually cure one of...
Tunneling Field Effect transistors (TFETs) have been worked on for many years as an alternative to today's FETs, which are the transistors used in power electronics including electric cars. The main advantage of TFETs over simple FETs is efficiency...
Although yesterday we were talking about how trees may actually bear higher concentrations of CO2, Australian scientists discovered that we're pretty close to not being able to reverse global warming - and, yes, you can call that a WARNING.
Current...
When BMW puts something out on the market, it's worth checking it out. This time we're talking about the i8 plug-in hybrid, that has often been referred to as a "supercar." Why? Because, all its features, very faithful to...
