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'Power Plants': How to Harvest Electricity Directly from Plants
May 9, 2013 — The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation on Earth is converted into useful ... > full story -
Graphene Quantum Dots May Someday Tell If It Will Rain on Mars
May 8, 2013 — Chemical engineers may be able to improve humidity and pressure sensors, particularly those used in outer ... > full story -
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Value in Concentrating Solar Power to Add to Electric Grid Calculated
May 7, 2013 — Researchers have quantified the significant value that concentrating solar power plants can add to an electric ... > full story -
Chaos Proves Superior to Order
May 7, 2013 — Physicists have demonstrated that chaos can beat order - at least as far as light storage is ... > full story -
Scientists Build a Living Patch for Damaged Hearts
May 6, 2013 — Biomedical engineers have grown three-dimensional human heart muscle that acts just like natural tissue. This advancement could be important in treating heart attack patients or in serving as a ... > full story -
Microwave Oven Cooks Up Solar Cell Material
May 6, 2013 — Metallurgists used an old microwave oven to produce a nanocrystal semiconductor rapidly using cheap, abundant and less toxic metals than other semiconductors. They hope it will be used for more ... > full story -
Improving Materials That Convert Heat to Electricity and Vice-Versa: Turning Waste Heat Into Electricity
May 5, 2013 — Thermoelectric materials can be used to turn waste heat into electricity or to provide refrigeration without any liquid coolants, and new study has found a way to nearly double the efficiency of a ... > full story -
Researchers Estimate a Cost for Universal Access to Energy
May 2, 2013 — Universal access to modern energy could be achieved with an investment of between 65 and 86 billion US dollars a year up until 2030, new research has shown. The proposed investments are higher than ... > full story -
Robotic Insects Make First Controlled Flight
May 2, 2013 — In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leaped a few ... > full story -
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Understanding Student Weaknesses
May 2, 2013 — As part of a unique study that surveyed 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 students, researchers showed the science teachers were most successful when they could predict ... > full story
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