Silicon has been at the heart of solar electric panels for 40 years. That dominance may be ending now that perovskite has evolved to become a practical alternative.
Tag: Science
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DRINK A BOTTLE OF WATER, SWALLOW A QUARTER-MILLION BITS OF PLASTIC
For the first time, scientists have been able to put a close count on the number of invisible plastic particles that are in a bottle of water.
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SWEDISH COMPANY MAY HAVE INVENTED THE PERFECT EV BATTERY
Northvolt, a company in Stockholm, Sweden, has invented a battery for electric vehicles that uses no critical minerals and instead is based on salt.
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RESEARCHERS TAME ROGUE PROTEIN IMPLICATED IN 75 PERCENT OF ALL CANCERS
MYC is an odd protein. While most proteins have clearly defined, reliable shapes, MYC is amorphous.
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FIRST COMPUTER THAT SIMULATES THE ENTIRE HUMAN BRAIN DUE THIS YEAR
Technicians at Australia’s International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems are putting the finishing touches on DeepSouth, the first supercomputer engineered to mimic an entire, functioning human brain. They expect to be ready to turn it on in April.
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DEATH COMES FOR THE BRAIN IN WAVES
After recording animals’ brain activity as they died, researchers at the Paris Brain Institute were able, for the first time, to describe in detail the sequence of events that ends the brain’s life.
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A BLOOD TEST COULD REVEAL RISK OF SUICIDE
Depression afflicts 300 million people worldwide and almost 20 million in the U.S., according to the World Health Organization. The worst cases resist counseling and drug therapy, often leading to suicide.
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RECYCLING CARBON FROM THE AIR TO POWER FUEL CELLS
The just-ended COP28 climate summit called on nations to speed their efforts to pull excess carbon out of the air and rebalance the atmosphere. Engineers are using everything from catalytic processes to giant sucking machines to do it.
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GENE DISCOVERY MAY HALT PARKINSON’S DISEASE BEFORE SYMPTOMS APPEAR
Parkinson’s Disease, which affects as many as nine million people globally, including a million Americans, has been thought to originate when brain cells producing the biochemical dopamine die.
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PHARMA FOOD—BIOTECH ON YOUR PLATE
Lab-grown meat may one day represent 80 percent or more of the "meat" consumed worldwide,[1] a dramatic departure from the way humans have eaten for centuries.