An inexpensive and efficient process for making biodegradable plastics could save millions of tons of petroleum-derived plastics from landfills. Credit: Flickr/Tony Webster
The development of petroleum-based plastics is one of the crowning achievements of the 20th century, but they come...
This is an analyzed snapshot of a moment of turbulent flow, in this case, an exact coherent structure (ECS).
Credit: Georgia Tech / Schatz / Grigoriev
An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can trigger...
Dr. Anita Ho-Baillie, a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics at UNSW, with the new perovskite cell. Credit: Rob Largent/UNSW
They’re flexible, cheap to produce and simple to make – which is why perovskites are the...
Providing safer drinking water to those in need may be a little easier. According to Penn State researchers, a new desalination technique is able to remove salt from water using less energy than previous methods.
"Globally, there is reduced access...
The schematic at left shows the design for an experimental transistor made of a semiconductor called beta gallium oxide, which could bring new ultra-efficient switches for applications such as the power grid, military ships and aircraft. At right is...
THz waves confined in a novel slot waveguide interact with tunable, two-dimensional electron gas.Credit: Nano Lab, Tufts University School of Engineering
Tufts University engineers have invented a chip-sized, high-speed modulator that operates at terahertz (THz) frequencies and at room temperature...
UCF scientist Jayan Thomas has made a breakthrough that would essentially turn jackets and other clothing into wearable, solar-powered batteries that never need to be plugged in. It could one day revolutionize wearable technology, helping everyone from soldiers who...
This diagram depicts the way a mid-infrared laser (red cylinder, left) can send a beam through the atmosphere that generates filaments of ionized air molecules (multicolored beam, center, shown with magnified view). These filaments, which can be kilometers long,...
A 2-D diagram of how the prism spectrum splitter mini-module works.Credit: Rob Largent/UNSW
A new solar cell configuration developed by engineers at the University of New South Wales has pushed sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 34.5% -- establishing a new world...
Converting greenhouse gas emissions into energy-rich fuel using nano silicon (Si) in a carbon-neutral carbon-cycle is illustrated.Credit: Chenxi Qian
Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming -- and quite likely our own eventual extinction -- by injecting about...
When the tension rises, unexpected things can happen -- not least when it comes to gold atoms. Researchers from, among others, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now managed, for the first time, to make the surface of a...
