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With global warming on the rise, it has become imperative to reduce fossil fuel dependency and switch to alternate green energy sources. The development of electric vehicles is a move towards this direction. However, electric vehicles…

What started as a simple errand to deposit a check at a bank drive-through became the kind of "aha" moment found mostly in books and movies. Georgia Tech researchers had been working on an idea to simplify traditional direct air capture…

An international research group has engineered a new energy-generating device by combining piezoelectric composites with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP), a commonly used material that is both light and strong. The new device…

The NHS has more staff and money than ever before but is less efficient, a damning report by the public spending watchdog reveals today.An investigation by the National Audit Office found patient satisfaction and access to urgent treatment…

When we communicate with others over wireless networks, information is sent to data centers where it is collected, stored, processed, and distributed. As computational energy usage continues to grow, it is on pace to potentially become the…

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new superconducting diode, a key component in electronic devices, that could help scale up quantum computers for industry use and improve the performance of artificial…

After years of struggling to make good on its chipmaking promises, Intel is publishing two papers at next week’s VLSI Symposium detailing a new way to build chip nodes that should make for more efficient processors, according to its press…

A new iron complex has been developed as a catalyst for the oxidation of methane to selectively convert it to methanol. This complex can efficiently oxidize methane by internally trapping methane while preventing the overoxidation of the…

The absolute internal quantum efficiency (IQE) of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) based blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at low temperatures is often assumed to be 100%. However, a new study from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign…

Solar panels may look similar to each other, but some do a better job of turning the sun's rays into electricity for your home.The most efficient solar panels on the residential market today are sold by SunPower and Canadian Solar. Both…