This report comes at a critical time when many municipalities, some with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, are in the process of…
By observing cloud shape, size and movement, the system provides a way for utility companies to predict and prepare for fluctuations in power output due to…
“LEDs can be very energy efficient, and they are a lot smaller and last a lot longer than light bulbs,” says NIST vision scientist Wendy Davis. “They're what…
Nanowires typically are “grown” by the controlled deposition of molecules—zinc oxide, for example—from a gas onto a base material, a process called chemical…
What do a car engine, a power plant, a factory and a solar panel have in common? They all generate heat – a lot of which is wasted. University of Arizona…
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are leading a new $2 million study to help overcome a key bottleneck slowing the proliferation of large-scale…
Now a joint team of Ukrainian and American scientists has demanded more work and less poetry from the second law of thermodynamics, proposing a novel…
By observing cloud shape, size and movement, the system provides a way for utility companies to predict and prepare for fluctuations in power output due to…
One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence.University of Central…
“We are very pleased with the results of the demonstration testing of our research,” Chuck Coronella, principle investigator for the research project and an…
“Our research could pave the way for turning electricity from the atmosphere into an alternative energy source for the future,” said study leader Fernando…
A ribbon-cutting ceremony held today celebrated the opening of all four homes as laboratories, a major milestone of the first ZEBRAlliance project….
The state-of-the-art technology being pioneered by experts at Newcastle University uses Silicon Carbide electronics that can withstand temperatures equal to…
Solar energy could be a central alternative to petroleum-based energy production. However, current solar-cell technology often does not produce the same energy…
Arc and Flash lamps are used for a variety of different applications. For precise measure of distance in laser based range finders, for laser excitation in…
The multi-welled microplate, long a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories, could become a thing of the past thanks to new electronic…