Producing hydrogen in a sustainable way is a challenge and production cost has so far proven to be too high. Now a team led by EPFL Professor Xile Hu has discovered that a molybdenum based c... Read more
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have announced a breakthrough in the quest to create a viable fuel alternative using greenhouse gases. The process uses two types of bacteria to... Read more
ARPA-e funds potential breakthrough work to make energy-dense batteries that enable long distance travel Lithium spontaneously combusts in air, yet the battery in your computer—and any of th... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Researchers have made a two-fold breakthrough in advancing renewable energies with the development of a light sensitive dye which transfers electrons more efficiently tha... Read more
Carbon nanotubes, despite all the technological advances they’re making possible, look pretty boring. When viewed though a microscope, they are, essentially, just straight tubes. Now scienti... Read more
Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have documented a major breakthrough in the production of nanocircuitry on graphene, a material that many envision as the successor of sil... Read more
By creating specific kinds of tiny structures on a material’s surface researchers can make a liquid spread only in a single direction. While this may not appear to be a momentous breakthroug... Read more
A team of scientists at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland has created what they claim is the world’s first junctionless transistor. The invention represents a breakthroug... Read more