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Heliatek sets new Organic Photovoltaic world record efficiency of 13.2%

15.02.2016 | Heliatek | www.heliatek.com

Heliatek reached a record conversion efficiency of 13.2% for an OPV multi-junction cell, setting a new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity using organic photovoltaic…

Heliatek sets new Organic Photovoltaic world record efficiency of 13.2%

Researchers discover new glass technology

12.02.2016 | University of British Columbia | news.ubc.ca

Imagine if the picture window in your living room could double as a giant thermostat or big screen TV. A discovery by researchers at the University of British Columbia has brought us one step closer…

Researchers discover new glass technology

Microsoft research project puts cloud in ocean for the first time

10.02.2016 | IEEE Spectrum | spectrum.ieee.org

Microsoft’s first underwater test involved a car-sized capsule that weighs more than 17,236 kilograms and has a computing power equivalent to 300 desktop computers. That’s tiny compared with existing…

Microsoft research project puts cloud in ocean for the first time

Cockroach inspires robot that squeezes through cracks

09.02.2016 | UC Berkeley | news.berkeley.edu

Not only that cockroaches can squish themselves to get into one-tenth-of-an-inch crevices, but once inside they can run at high speed even when flattened in half.

Cockroach inspires robot that squeezes through cracks

World's largest ever offshore wind farm to be built

05.02.2016 | DONG Energy | www.hornseaprojectone.co.uk

DONG Energy will build the giant Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, capable of powering well over 1 million UK homes, off the Yorkshire coast.

World's largest ever offshore wind farm to be built

First driverless buses travel public roads in the Netherlands

03.02.2016 | The Telegraph | www.telegraph.co.uk

The first self-driving electric shuttle for use on public roads has taken to the road in the Netherlands. The WEpod took six passengers down a 200m stretch of street in the first trial of its kind.

First driverless buses travel public roads in the Netherlands

NASA Engineers Tapped to Build First Integrated-Photonics Modem

01.02.2016 | NASA | www.nasa.gov

A NASA team has been tapped to build a new type of communications modem that will employ an emerging, potentially revolutionary technology that could transform everything from telecommunications,…

NASA Engineers Tapped to Build First Integrated-Photonics Modem

Researchers Develop Completely New Kind of Polymer

29.01.2016 | Northwestern University | www.northwestern.edu

Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically regenerated to function again. Or a polymer that can lift weights, contracting and…

Researchers Develop Completely New Kind of Polymer

Japanese Begin with the Construction of the World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

27.01.2016 | Kyocera | global.kyocera.com

In a joint venture, Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation announced today that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has started construction of the world’s largest 13.7 megawatt (MW) floating…

Japanese Begin with the Construction of the World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

Physicists develop a cooling system for the processors of the future

25.01.2016 | MIPT | mipt.ru

Researchers from MIPT have found a solution to the problem of overheating of active plasmonic components. These components will be essential for high-speed data transfer within the optoelectronic…

Physicists develop a cooling system for the processors of the future

Tiny electronic implants monitor brain injury, then melt away

22.01.2016 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | news.illinois.edu

A new class of small, thin electronic sensors can monitor temperature and pressure within the skull – crucial health parameters after a brain injury or surgery – then melt away when they are no…

Tiny electronic implants monitor brain injury, then melt away

Toshiba Prepares Amphibious Robot for Fukushima Reactor Pool

20.01.2016 | IEEE Spectrum | spectrum.ieee.org

There’s still a huge amount of radioactive waste cleanup to do at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. Some of that cleanup can be done by careful humans.

Toshiba Prepares Amphibious Robot for Fukushima Reactor Pool

Power Harvesting Sensor Patch Uses Your Body As a Battery

18.01.2016 | NC State University | licensing.research.ncsu.edu

Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs) enable energy conversion from heat to electricity and have potential applications ranging from waste heat energy harvesting to small self-powered wearable medical…

Power Harvesting Sensor Patch Uses Your Body As a Battery

Researchers outline physics of metal 3-D printing

15.01.2016 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

While the most common method of metal 3D printing is growing exponentially, moving forward from producing prototypes to manufacturing critical parts will be possible only by reaching a fundamental…