Technology - general
Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage
15 Jul 2015
The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time. A new technology has been developed to store solar energy for up to several weeks - an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells
Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
14 Jul 2015
Elon Musk funds Oxford, Cambridge research on safe and beneficial AI
13 Jul 2015
Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who fears AI as "summoning the demon", hopes his research would help develop safer Artificial Intelligence
An innovative project to bring electricity to rural India receives a boost
10 Jul 2015
Approximately 70 per cent of Indians live in rural communities with only 44 per cent of these households having access to electricity
Encryption for everyone
10 Jul 2015
Linux founder Linus Torvalds dismisses fears over AI
08 Jul 2015
Linus Torvalds dismissed fears over the overarching ability of AI, expressed in recent weeks by some of the most famous minds, including Stephen Hawking
Better memory with faster lasers
08 Jul 2015
Tiny wires could provide a big energy boost
By By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 07 Jul 2015
Single-catalyst water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen 24/7
06 Jul 2015
Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost water splitter that uses a single catalyst to produce both hydrogen and oxygen gas 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Researchers stretch a thin crystal to get better solar cells
04 Jul 2015
Crystalline semiconductors such as silicon can catch photons and convert their energy into electron flows. New research shows that a little stretching could give one of silicon's lesser-known cousins its own place in the sun