New organic flow battery could mean breakthrough for renewable energy storage
Harvard scientists and engineers have developed a new type of battery that could allow the supply of energy from…
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World’s fastest organic transistor paves way for new generation of cheap,…
Engineers in the US have found a way to vastly speed up the performance of organic transistors, bringing closer the…
Shortfall of 13 million honeybee colonies threatens Europe’s crop…
Across Europe, farmers are growing increasingly more crops, especially oil crops, such as oilseed rape and…
Reclaiming the desert using bacteria in China
A project to stop land turning into desert is showing promising results in China. There, with the help of bacteria,…
RAF Tornado fighter jet flies with 3D printed metal part
Tornado fighter jets in the UK's Royal Air Force (RAF) are to use 3D printed parts for the first time.
One jet,…
Google robots and Amazon drones wrestle for future of parcel delivery
As Amazon announces the launch of its "parcel drone" Prime Air project, and Google pitches in with the concept of…
Wellness tourism is a fast-growing market
A new industry report finds that a growing movement pushing to change travel to include healthy activities and…
Extend superfast broadband not airport capacity say Brits in poll
The UK public says extending superfast broadband to all households would be a better investment for the country…
Thinking about money corrupts more than thinking about time
When people are encouraged to think about time and not money, they are less inclined to cheat, according to a new…
Cancer immunotherapy is the breakthrough of 2013
Cancer immunotherapy, a groundbreaking treatment that stimulates the patient's own immune system to reject cancer,…
Conservation investment in low-cost countries less likely to succeed
The first study to look at links between conservation management costs and factors that lead to conservation…
Graphene is an attractive material for nanoscale electronics
The increasing demand for smaller and faster semiconductor technology intensifies the search for 'next-generation'…
Americans perceive income inequality ‘far too pessimistically’
Americans perceive incomes and income inequality 'far too pessimistically,' according to a US study that surveyed…
College applicants pay attention to “Top Ten Effect”
A new US study suggests that consumers pay attention to the "Top Ten Effect," for instance when picking a college,…
More CO2 escapes from rivers and streams globally than all lakes
About five times more carbon dioxide (CO2) escapes from the world's rivers and streams per year than from all its…
Unionized women command higher wages, US report
A new report reveals that unionized women - US female workers who belong to or are represented by unions - are paid…