NASA has announced the seven instruments that will accompany Mars 2020, a planned $1.9 billion roving laboratory similar to the Mars Curiosity...
Engineers across the globe have been racing to design smaller, cheaper and more efficient rechargeable batteries to meet the power storage needs...
Highly-stretchable versions of two multilayer inductor topologies, the double planar coil and solenoid, were successfully demonstrated using liquid galinstan in fluidic channels....
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering (UCR) have created a lithium-ion battery that outperforms the current industry...
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have developed a water-based organic battery that is long lasting and built from cheap,...
Researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are turning to extremely tiny tubes and rods to boost power and...
A team of Canadian-Bulgarian researchers has developed a promising and novel approach for magnetic cooling that’s far more efficient and ‘greener’ than...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown phase in a class of superconductors called...
Researchers at Vanderbilt University’s Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory have proposed to eliminate batteries from portable electronic devices. This intriguing prospect is...
The long life of lithium ion batteries makes them the rechargeable of choice for everything from implantable medical devices to wearable consumer...
Scientists have taken a step toward making a fiber-like energy storage device that can be woven into clothing and power wearable medical...
Arc-free switching of hundreds of volts is possible using a MEMS switching device developed by a team of researchers with General Electric...
The HEMS Working Group, one of the household divisions of the Keihanna Eco-City Next-Generation Energy and Social System Verification Experiment Project in...
Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new type of rechargeable lithium battery with components made entirely of carbon. Unlike...
Sixty years ago on April 25, 1954, at a press conference in New York, Bell Laboratories demonstrated to the world what has...