Tag: Science

Typical solar panels are around 20-percent efficient, meaning that 80 percent of the sunlight falling on them is wasted as heat. 

MXenes are a versatile, recently developed group of materials known for their versatility. They are excellent electrical conductors, are happy in water, and are physically strong.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a brain implant small enough to sit on a grain of salt, but capable of tracking brain activity and transmitting data wirelessly for longer than a year. 

A single injection of a gene essential to hearing was injected into the inner ear of 10 patients and all 10 experienced improved hearing, some as soon as a month after being treated.

A new solar-powered reactor can convert plastic trash into clean hydrogen using old battery acid as the process’s active ingredient.

A family of drugs called antibody-drug conjugates can pinpoint cancer tumors and deliver therapeutic drugs directly to them.

UniX AI, a Chinese robot maker, is field-testing an in-home robot with an embedded AI that enables it to wake you up at a specific time, make a meal, clean surfaces, and pick up things and put them away.

Each year, 12 to 15 million cars are put into scrap yards. While much of the steel can be recycled, much of the aluminum cannot because the recycling process introduces impurities that make the aluminum substandard for cars’ standards for strength and durability.