Xiamen University (XMU)

In the future, solar cells can become twice as efficient by employing a few smart little nano-tricks. Researchers are currently developing the environment-friendly solar cells of the future, which will capture twice as much energy as the cells of today. The trick is to combine two different types of solar cells in order to utilize

A way to write messages that will vanish spontaneously

Eggshells are both marvels and afterthoughts. Placed on end, they are as strong as the arches supporting ancient Roman aqueducts. Yet they readily crack in the middle, and once that happens, we discard them without a second thought. But now scientists report that adding tiny shards of eggshell to bioplastic could create a first-of-its-kind biodegradable

Researcher develops test to assess a computer’s capacity for human-level intelligence through its ability to create rather than to converse or deceive A Georgia Tech professor recently offered an alternative to the celebrated “Turing Test” to determine whether a machine or computer program exhibits human-level intelligence. The Turing Test – originally called the Imitation Game

A USE FOR EXCESS CARBON EMISSIONS Researchers at Brown and Yale have demonstrated a new “enabling technology” that could use excess carbon dioxide to produce acrylate, a valuable commodity chemical involved in the manufacture of everything from polyester cloth to disposable diapers. A key advance, newly reported by chemists from Brown and Yale Universities, could

Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have developed a method that allows silicon ink in polycrystalline form to be printed on a substrate, a breakthrough that could open the door for future flexible electronic devices. Printable electronic devices are of great interest to the electronics industry due to their simplicity and relatively

Image via Wikipedia If you’ve ever tried to transfer your touch-typing skills onto a touchscreen tablet’s virtual keyboard, you’ll know what an impossible task that can be. Apart from the fact that there’s no tactile guide to tell you where keys are in relation to each other, placing all of your fingers onto the screen

New approach to invisibility cloaking could be used to secure data transmissions and advance sensing, telecommunications and other applications Researchers and engineers have long sought ways to conceal objects by manipulating how light interacts with them. A new study offers the first demonstration of invisibility cloaking based on the manipulation of the frequency (color) of

This could be useful for greenhouse gas mitigation, bioremediation or erosion control. The same “green revolution” concepts that have revolutionized crop agriculture and helped to feed billions of people around the world may now offer similar potential in forestry, scientists say, with benefits for wood, biomass production, drought stress and even greenhouse gas mitigation. Researchers