Thanks to the discovery of a new material by University of Utah engineers, jewelry such as a ring and your body heat could generate enough electricity to power a body sensor, or a cooking pa... Read more
Taking a page from Jules Verne, researchers at Microsoft believe the future of data centers may be under the sea. Microsoft has tested a prototype of a self-contained data center that can op... Read more
A proof-of-concept, phase 2 trial by an international research team has found promising results for a myostatin antibody in treating the decline in muscle mass and power associated with agin... Read more
A new model of pneumatic muscle and an active type of assistive equipment incorporating this pneumatic muscle has been developed at Hiroshima University and Daiya Industry Co. Ltd., Japan. T... Read more
Columns of workers penetrate the forest, furiously gathering as much food and supplies as they can. They are a massive army that living things know to avoid, and that few natural obstacles c... Read more
A research demonstration unveiled today at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory combines clean energy technologies into a 3D-printed building and vehicle to showcase a ne... Read more
Brown University researchers have created a new type of optoelectronic implantable device to access brain microcircuits, synergizing a technique that enables scientists to control the activi... Read more
A sprinkling of graphene may conjure a long-sought material into existence ANY sufficiently advanced technology, as Arthur C. Clarke once observed, is indistinguishable from magic. And one t... Read more
In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, tens of thousands of German citizens took to the streets calling for the phase out of atomic energy. In May, the German government bowe... Read more
Generating electricity by nuclear fusion has long looked like a chimera. A reactor being built in Germany may change that AS THE old joke has it, fusion is the power of the future—and always... Read more
Such incinerators are making progress in the U.S. but critics remain From the sidewalk there’s almost no evidence that behind the walls of the energy-from-waste plant in Alexandria, Va... Read more
Scientists, engineers and government officials are attempting to harness the power in flowing water For Douglas Meffert, those attempting to harness the water power of the Mississippi River... Read more
Then there are the systemic threats . . . When I was getting my solar panels installed, I couldn’t wait to see my electric meter literally spin backwards. Alas, as part of the process, the u... Read more
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Although scientists have long known that tantalizing whiffs of energy radiate from WiFi and other radio frequency waves, it’s only recently that the alternative energy industry has started t... Read more
As you sit there reading this story you’re surrounded by electromagnetic energy transmitted from sources such as radio and television transmitters, mobile phone networks and satellite... Read more
