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Power and Electrical Engineering

Electron Sandwich Boosts Thermoelectric Efficiency by 2X

Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues in Japan and Taiwan have improved the ability to transform wasted heat into usable electricity by…

Information Technology

Control Robots With Brainwaves and Gestures: New Insights

Getting robots to do things isn't easy: usually scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language.

Information Technology

Autonomous System SYMBIOSIS: Fish School Identification Innovation

The University of Haifa (Israel) and two teams from the IMDEA Networks Institute have developed an innovative autonomous system, SYMBIOSIS, to monitor…

Physics & Astronomy

Temperature-Controlled Fiber-Optic Light Source Innovations

Already last year, the researchers provided experimental proof of a new dynamic of hybrid solitons– temporally and spectrally stationary light waves resulting…

Materials Sciences

Oxide Alloys: Unlikely Innovations in Semiconductor Materials

The term alloy usually refers to a mixture of several metals. However, other materials can also be alloyed. In the semiconductor industry, for instance, oxide…

Environmental Conservation

How Dry Landscapes Influence Disease Transmission Patterns

Sick individuals often behave differently. For example, they usually sleep more and eat less. Accordingly, one could expect that sick individuals have less…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Perovskite-Silicon Solar Cells Achieve 25.2% Efficiency

“The next step is to establish a proof of concept for the APV system technology in developing and threshold countries. Due to the higher levels of solar…

Information Technology

Intelligent Maps Enhance Robot Navigation in Homes

”In a workspace where robots and humans operate side by side, it is important that the robots are ’well-behaved’ and aware of their surroundings. Semantic maps…

Life & Chemistry

Tag It EASI: A New Method for Accurate Protein Analysis

In recent years, researchers have realized that analyzing genetic information is not enough to understand cellular processes in healthy or diseased cells,…

Life & Chemistry

Nanosensors Enable Tracking of Membrane Protein Deliveries

Membrane proteins are a basic component of each individual cell of the human body and play a vital role in the cell’s structure, metabolism and transport. They…

Physics & Astronomy

New Material Enhances Water Splitting for Solar Energy Storage

Solar energy is clean and abundant. But when the sun isn't shining, you must store the energy in batteries or through a process called photocatalysis — in…

Materials Sciences

Cementless fly ash binder makes concrete 'green'

Rice University engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants, that can replace Portland cement…

Physics & Astronomy

Advancements in Carbon Nanotube Optics for Quantum Cryptography

“We are particularly interested in advances in nanotube integration into photonic cavities for manipulating and optimizing light-emission properties,” said…

Health & Medicine

Gene Linked to Autism Impacts Brain Connections, Study Shows

New preclinical research shows a gene already linked to a subset of people with autism spectrum disorder is critical to healthy neuronal connections in the…

Materials Sciences

Discover Superior Alloys for High-Temperature Applications

Developing alloys that can withstand high temperatures without corroding is a key challenge for many fields, such as renewable and sustainable energy…

Life & Chemistry

Accelerated Reactions Unveiled in Condensed Bio-Matter

Cells are thought of as the basic unit of life. Each is a dynamic micro-world of billions of molecules involved in complex biochemical reactions. Cells control…

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