Image via Wikipedia Ordinary cotton and polyester fabrics have been turned into batteries that retain their flexibility. The demonstration is a boost to the nascent field of “wearable... Read more
Image by jurvetson via Flickr Tech companies, government agencies and academics are uniting to develop the technology needed to increase global telecommunications networks’ energy effi... Read more
Prototype for low-cost very large energy storage devices? Imagine a gift wrapped in paper you really do treasure and want to carefully fold and save. That’s because the wrapping paper... Read more
Yi Cui, an Assistant Professor of Material Science and Engineering at Stanford University, has invented quite the water filter. It’s inexpensive, is very resistant to clogging, and uses much... Read more
Image via Wikipedia YOUNG RESEARCHERS WITH THE SKILLS AND DRIVE TO REACH OUT, COMMUNICATE THEIR SCIENCE, AND LEAD SOCIETYTOWARDS EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS. Several years ago, Donald Kennedy,... Read more
Research has already shown that at the nanoscale, chemistry is different and the same is apparently true for light, which Engineers at Stanford University say behaves differently at scales o... Read more
Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, two Stanford grads who signed up for the Launch Pad class at the University’s Institute of Design (aka d.school), could have hardly chosen a better path to tr... Read more
