Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
111 to 120 of 18,091 stories
view headlines only
-
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 -
A Giant Leap to Commercialization of Polymer Solar Cell Technology
May 6, 2013 — Researchers in Korea have demonstrated high-performance polymer solar cells (PSCs) with power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.92% which is the highest values reported to date for plasmonic PSCs ... > 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 -
Highly Fragile, Volatile Body Observed With New Quantum-Mechanical Measurement Technique
May 5, 2013 — Scientists have observed a highly fragile and volatile body through a new quantum-mechanical measurement ... > full story -
Tiny Magnets as a Model System
May 5, 2013 — In the microscopic world, everything is in motion: atoms and molecules vibrate, proteins fold, even glass is a slow flowing liquid. And during each movement there are interactions between the ... > full story -
New Kind of Cosmic Flash May Reveal Birth of a Black Hole
May 3, 2013 — According to an astrophysicist, a new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black ... > full story -
Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova
May 3, 2013 — These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded ... > full story -
'Shockingly Bright' Burst of Gamma Rays from Dying Star in Distant Galaxy
May 3, 2013 — A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world. The eruption, which is classified as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB, and designated GRB ... > full story -
'Going Negative' Pays for Nanotubes
May 3, 2013 — Researchers turn carbon nanotubes into negatively charged liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and ... > full story -
How to Frustrate a Quantum Magnet: 16 Atomic Ions Simulate a Quantum Antiferromagnet
May 3, 2013 — Frustration crops up throughout nature when conflicting constraints on a physical system compete with one another. The way nature resolves these conflicts often leads to exotic phases of matter that ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,088
more 
