“We want to teach students who think creatively, work together, use the very latest technology, and dare to set their sights high. The most important thing is…
Imagine if all you had to do to charge your iPod or your BlackBerry was to wave your hand, or stretch your arm, or take a walk? You could say goodbye to…
Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services and the University of Florida will use these satellites to investigate technological advances such as…
New generations of high-energy batteries for tomorrow's propulsion technologyFinancial sponsorship running into millions has opened the way for the development…
A full, deep sound tells him that the laminate is homogeneous, while a more flat, hollow tone indicates irregularities in the material. Delaminated and hollow…
But University at Buffalo researchers who study electronics packaging recently made a pleasant discovery: that's not the case with Single-Walled Carbon…
Lighting consumes one-fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Solid-state lighting offers tremendous potential to improve the situation – once…
The team have produced a material from a football-shaped molecule, called carbon60, to demonstrate how a superconductor – an element, compound or alloy that…
The project kicked off in January 2009 and is scheduled to be completed within two years. This technology will then be available for industrial-scale…
The creation of long platinum nanowires at the University of Rochester could soon lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells.Described in a…
“Injecting particles into the stratosphere could have unintended consequences for one alternative energy source expected to play a role in the transition away…
Environmental organizations have raised concerns for decades about the environmental impact of the burning of fossil fuels – particularly coal – for energy….
Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have been able to prove the existence of a “spin battery,” a battery…
This research was presented at a press conference by Peter Lund of the Helsinki University of Technology's Advanced Energy Systems in Espoo, Finland, ahead of…
An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in…
Missions to space require “warm” boxes, which protect electronic circuitry from extreme temperatures and exposure to radiation. Electrical engineering…
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