evolution Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:43:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Ocean Life Coping with Climate Change through Evolution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-life-coping-climate-change-evolution-20140916/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-life-coping-climate-change-evolution-20140916/#respond Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:43:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49257 Climate change is again threatening thousands of living species to extinction, as it has done to the dinosaurs during the first ice age.  Researchers from Cornell University recently published a study that says that half of the bird species in North America face extinction due to loss of habitat caused by aberrant changes in the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ocean-life-coping-climate-change-evolution-20140916/feed/ 0 49257 New Efficient Solar Cell Design Inspired by Evolution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-cell-design-evolution-20130128/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-cell-design-evolution-20130128/#respond Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:03:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32142 Researchers at Northwestern University published a paper entitled “Highly Efficient Light-Trapping Structure Design Inspired by Natural Evolution,” in the journal Nature earlier this month, showing that single-crystal silicon solar cells do not have to be as expensive as they currently are. The solution is hidden in the new geometric pattern of the scattering layer, which […]

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