A team of scientists is exploring an unusual source of electricity; damaged tomatoes that are unsuitable for sale at the grocery store....
It has been five years since the emergency sirens sounded at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant following the massive 2011 earthquake and...
A critical milestone in solar cell fabrication will help pave the way for solar energy to directly compete with electricity generated by...
The recent crash in oil prices notwithstanding, an economy based on fossil fuels seems unsustainable. Supplies of oil, coal and similar fuels...
Recently, an international team of scientists excitedly announced that they had directly observed gravitational waves, often described as ripples in the fabric...
When you shine a light on a conducting surface like silicon or graphene, that light jump-starts certain electrons into high-energy states and...
The end of Moore’s Law — the prediction that transistor density would double every two years — was one of the hottest...
Scientists have been trying for years to make a practical lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon, which could store 10 times more...
Electric cars will only be truly competitive when it doesn’t take longer to charge them than it does to fill a gas...
A two-stage power management and storage system could dramatically improve the efficiency of triboelectric generators that harvest energy from irregular human motion...
The first helium plasma has been produced in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP)...
A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE plc has created gallium-nitride (GaN)...
Hitachi, Ltd. and Tohoku University’s Advanced Institute for Material Research (AIMR) have developed a basic technology to reduce the internal resistance of...
One of the greatest challenges in the evolution of electronics has been to reduce power consumption during transistor switching operation. In a...
An international team of researchers has predicted the existence of a new type of particle called the type-II Weyl fermion in metallic...