Jellyfish protein could be used in microscopic fuel cells
Researchers in Sweden have been liquidizing thousands of specimens of a common North American jellyfish to extract a protein that could be used in...
Oceans acidifying faster today than in past 300 million years
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions, in addition to causing global warming, alter the chemistry of seas and oceans, causing them to turn progressively acidic. This change...
First practical nanogenerator could replace conventional batteries
After six years of intensive effort, scientists are reporting development of the first commercially viable nanogenerator, a flexible chip that can use body movements...
The world’s first single-molecule electric motor
A Tufts research team has developed the world’s first single-molecule electric motor—which is a mere 1 nanometer across.
"The excitement is in the demonstration that...
Metamaterials may boost wireless power transfer
More than one hundred years after the pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla first became fascinated with wireless energy transfer, the spread of mobile electronic devices...
Nanotechnology has increased efficiency of organic solar cells
In the solar energy field researchers are using the latest developments in nanotechnology to work on very small solar cells. Researchers are testing different...
MIT Implantable Innovative Tool to Track Body Cancer Cells
It looks like a tiny white breath mint. As Michael Cima, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says "With this, we are going to...
Japanese Wind Power Plants Survive the Earthquake
Wind power capacity increased quickly in the past ten years in Japan, but most recently the sector has experienced a slowdown because of following...
India’s Future Renewable Energy Capacities
India’s existing renewable energy generation comes to 20GW, about 11% of the country’s total capacity and the country needs
to double the score as part...
Quantum computers – closer to reality
Quantum computers should be much easier to build than previously thought, because they can still work with a large number of faulty or even...