Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
Thursday, January 16, 2014: Affordable Seating, a leading commercial seating manufacturer, has supplied Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity of University of Texas in Austin by supplying them with quality restaurant furniture for their newly renovated ...
Public health researchers from The University of Manchester have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children and will not halt the global epidemic in childhood ...
Professor Deborah Gordon recently sent hundreds of ants to the orbiting International Space Station. By studying how the ants adjust their behavior to cope with near-zero gravity conditions, scientists could improve the algorithms ...
Tags: Electronics, Electrical, Instruments, Meters
A new class of molecules called acyldepsipeptides-ADEPs-may provide a new way to attack bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics. Researchers at Brown and MIT have discovered a way to increase the potency of ADEPs by up to ...
In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
Tags: Dark Matter, Project Aims
The Naval Academy Athletic Association and Under Armour, Inc. announced a new multiyear partnership that designates Under Armour as the official outfitter of their varsity intercollegiate athletic programs. Under Armour, the leading ...
Tags: footwear, apparel, accessories
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Sunlight
Graphene—the thinnest and strongest known material in the universe and a formidable conductor of electricity and heat – gets many of its amazing properties from the fact that it occupies only two dimensions: It has length and ...
Tags: 2-D Graphene, Graphene, Chemicals
The Center for Tire and Service Education (CTSE) is seeking corporate scholarship funding for participants in Tire Leadership 21, a new business education program for North American independent tire dealers. Tire Leadership 21, which ...
MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics. It's the ambitious mission powering her fast-growing startup littleBits, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Caffeine may help long-term memory Whether it's a mug full of coffee, a cup of hot tea, or a can of soft drink, consuming caffeine is the energy boost of choice for millions who want to wake up or stay up. But the popular stimulant could ...
Tags: Caffeine, long-term memory, memory enhancer
Australia's proposed Health Star Rating System for food labelling New Zealand’s nutritional food labels are not as effective as once thought and could be impacting on the health of New Zealanders, according to new research from the ...
Tags: Health Star Rating System, food labelling, nutritional food labels
More than 5,893 leaks from aging natural gas pipelines have been found under the streets of Washington, D.C. by a research team from Duke University and Boston University. A dozen of the leaks could have posed explosion risks, the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Have you ever left a doctor's office feeling ashamed or guilty? Chances are one in two that you answered "yes," according to research from the University of California, San Diego. And what happened next? Perhaps you were motivated to make ...