An "exotic" material belonging to a class of materials called "topological insulators" could help solar cells and optical communication devices evolve. A team of scientists from Stanford and SLAC have noticed that ultra-thin sheets of that material remain transparent...
Are you afraid of spiders? Disgusted when running into spider webs? Well, you shouldn't – they actually have great applications, among the latest being an outstanding heat conductor.
This strange discovery has been made by the Iowa State University researchers,...
If Toyota isn't planning ahead, I don't know who is: the famous Japanese automaker, who is also the biggest seller of hybrid vehicles in the world, has recently announced that it wants to provide the markets with thousands of...
What if light bulbs were as efficient as they should? There will be those of you who say: "Well, aren't they already?" Actually... no, they're not: they demand more electricity that would be needed to produce light and they...
You usually envisage solar cells as being tubular or horizontal, but this time prepare yourself for a tree-like form. It's just like those November trees covered in frost, only these are grown from silver. Pretty picture, right? It's not...
Did you get a look at that? I mean, isn’t it just gorgeous? This 3,523 pounds beauty is the Infiniti Emerg-E Electric, the sports car everyone’s been waiting for at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.
Francois Bancon, Division General Manager...
You may have realized a while ago that in a few decades from now, the renewable energy sources like wind, sun and geothermal will become more and more stuck to our immediate reality. So, if you live in the...
A new project at National Physical Laboratory in the UK aims to develop a much more efficient piezoelectric energy harvester. They found a serious glitch in current piezo devices that keeps them from giving their best at converting mechanical...
The revolutionary thing about fuel-cell vehicles is that their fuel has little to no impact on the environment. So who could find a better way of showing that than by actually making them look invisible?
Since the F-Cell vehicle emits...
Look at the picture. What do you see? A helmet, you'll say. However, for the more experienced, this is not just any kind of helmet, but one that integrates solar cells as well. This application is one of the...
