An American breakthrough might provide a new approach to fuel production and reducing carbon emissions. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have developed a solar cell that can convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into a cheap and usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight. “The new solar cell is not photovoltaic – it’s photosynthetic,”…
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A new state of matter has been discovered to help understanding the physics behind high temperature superconductors.
Till now we have known 3 states of matter: Solid, Liquid and Gas. To add to it some of them may be aware of Plasma state as well, however it seems there exists a whole lot of other states which do not exist in nature however would occur under extreme laboratory conditions. An International team…
‘Hourglass’: The Liquid Battery That Runs on Gravity
Scientists at MIT have designed an ingenious new concept for a battery that operates on the same fundamental principal as an hourglass—it relies on gravity to generate energy. They described the device in a recent paper forEnergy and Environmental Science. The fundamental concept of a battery is quite simple. There is a positive and negative…
Low Fat Chocolate Has Potential To Electrify Production
The application of an electric field helps chocolate flow more easily, removing the need for the world’s favorite treat to be so rich in fat. The effect is not large enough to turn candy bars into health food, even if you ignore the sugar, but could still lead to serious calorie reductions. Has Willy Wonka…
Living Bacteria Can Now Store Data
Using the CRISPR gene-editing tool, scientists from Harvard University have developed a technique that permanently records data into living cells. Incredibly, the information imprinted onto these microorganisms can be passed down to the next generation. CRISPR is turning into an incredibly versatile tool. The cheap and easy-to-use molecular editing system that burst onto the biotech…