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Eco Factor: New solar cells promise an efficiency of 6%. Researchers at the University of California have designed a new solar cell which will be far cheaper than conventional silicon cells, maybe up to 10 times cheaper. This new method will not...

The Solar tree by Envision is considered one of the best commercial solar panel structures available to harness the energy of the sun, and having seen it before being placed in numerous testing conditions, one can vouch for its quality. With the...

While natural muscles of our body cannot generate electricity to charge iphones but an artificial muscle developed by researchers in California could heal itself and generate electricity that could be used to charge iphones. The research is meant to..

Physicists in the US have discovered that photosynthesis-involved electrons in reactions 'sample' different energy-level routes in more or less the same way as quantum-computer algorithms can! -- at least in theory if not practical it is capable of...

Here is an 'architectural' solution for people living in California and other earthquake-prone regions throughout the world. Engineers have developed a metal shear wall designed newly with its seismic test being done at the University of California,..

Innumerable birds and animals die each year due to catastrophic oil spills - especially when contaminating river or ocean water. So, for cleaning these devastating oil spills on oceans, lakes and other waterways, U.S. scientists have developed a new..

The invasive Argentine ants turning havoc in the United States and neither pesticides, nor trapping could stop them from invasion! So, the University of California, Irvine chemists and biologists have found a natural way to finally check the spread...

Manuel Lagunas-Solar and his team at University of California, Davis (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture DOI) has developed a non-toxic technique to keep your fruits and vegetables fresh. Called the Metabolic Stress Disinfection (MSDD), this..

Two independent groups of researchers in the US have developed techniques to make porous germanium. It is another semiconductor used widely in microelectronics. This new material can be used in making solar cells and chemical sensors that are more...

The population along with their demands for oil is increasing in leaps and bounds. Squeezing more oil out from natural reservoirs has now become a necessity. Scientists found a way to extract oil from the natural reservoirs - by creating artificial...