By using a new method of crystallization, inventor Michael Graetzel says that the cells’ power conversion efficiency has shot up to 15 percent, putting them on a par with traditional silicon photovoltaics.
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According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, three fears account for “the most expensive, ambitious projects humans have ever undertaken.”
“This is a game changer!” says Jim Stinner, the vice president of marketing for Rust-Oleum, the company which manufactures and distributes NeverWet – a spray-on coating that repels water, mud, […]
Bacteria stored in a fuel cell broke down chemicals in urine, generating enough electricity in the process to enable text messaging, Internet browsing, and “a brief phone call.”
Here is what would make a quantum computer so powerful.
Martin Heidegger called Socrates “the purest thinker” in the West, which, I gather, doesn’t necessarily mean the best thinker. The sign of Socrates’ purity is not writing down his thoughts, […]
This is how the Left gets tough – rather than confront actual problems or genuine malefactors, they hyperventilate about invented ones, at the expense of innocent people.
It is what it is, but it is not what it should be.
We have to grow about 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed the population.
A carbon tax could be devised to incentive consumers to be ever-more energy efficient.
Christopher Hitchens, Demystifier Extraordinaire.
Spreading misinformation about vaccinations can have deadly consequences.
The legal system is ill equipped to render justice in the tragic death of a young black man.
The 23-year-old space telescope may be a few years away from retirement, but its eye is still good: The newly discovered 14th moon is only 12 miles in diameter.
Scientists are growing more confident that Jupiter’s moon could harbor life. The problem: Getting through its thick ice crust to the watery ocean beneath.
Just as religion informed the dawn of civilized man, so too do these 21st century stories act as a shield – protecting our sanity from an overwhelming sensation of entropic change. We are trying to find the signal in the noise. But increasingly, the noise is becoming louder and louder. It’s like this treadmill we’re running on has reached a speed we can’t keep up with. Today’s prowess Kairos is being pushed into yesterday’s fleeting Chronos. It’s a collision of dizzying proportions… everything happens now.
A team of students from Exeter University won first prize in innovation at the Imagine Cup competition with an app that turns a room full of smartphones into a stereo system.
All technologies conspire to give ordinary people more information, more tools, more resources, more ways to connect with each other, more ways to influence conversations.
I got out of college right at the wrong time when the economy was going down. It was a lot like today.
I always like to drink something that hydrates me at the same time because I usually forget to drink water.
Your client’s expectations about technology tend to come from his or her experience as a consumer.
In this video, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez explains some of the science behind ice cream.
In 2004, the UK thought it had found a suitable compromise to legalizing same-sex marriage. But civil partnerships, which are equal to marriage in every legal respect, have become insufficient.
The dollar is gaining in value relative to other world currencies, which economists say is due to several very recent changes in the economy as well as long-term growth in the national economy.
Tech research firm Gartner has coined the phrase “citizen developer” to describe the growing number of programmers whose skills came from outside the university environment.
Now with more than 3,000 subscribers from across the US and Canada, Call in the Night “attempts to wake people mid-dream so they can be recorded talking about what was happening during their REM cycle.”
In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany quickly declared that it would phase out nuclear power as a domestic energy source. But now, many of its citizens are crying foul.
League of Legends developer Riot Games has successfully convinced the government to offer players the same kind of visa normally given to athletes to allow them to compete in American tournaments.
Maybe it’s time for a DIY rethink: Nathan Broadbent’s “Raspberry Picrowave” accepts voice commands, emits custom sounds, can cook food via a product barcode scan, and can be controlled via a browser or mobile app.
In order to combat traffic jams and choking pollution, China will attempt to decrease the amount of cars in its major cities by imposing stricter limits on automobile purchases.