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Acquaphi Water Dynamizer
AcquaPhi reorganizes the molecular structure of water restoring its original vitality. It revitalizes ordinary tap-water into crystalline-shaped ...
World's Largest Solar-Powered Boat on a World Tour
The purpose of this tour is to advance scientific research in the field of renewable energy, and to show that current technologies aimed at improving ...
World's first solar power plant that can work at night
How can one use solar energy after the sun sets? Simple: store the sun's heat in molten salts.
The world's first solar power plant to emp ...
Never Wet - super hydrophobic coating
Ross Nanotechnology developed a super hydrophobic coating that completely repels water and heavy oils. Any object coated with our N ...
Infrared chlorophyll could boost solar cells
Nature still has plenty to teach us about harnessing the sun's energy. The latest lesson comes from the ancient stromatolites living in Australia ...
NeverWet Spray Makes Any Fabric 100% Water Proof
We’ve all heard of water proof or water resistant clothing, but generally that involves a special material that is lined into the fabric.&nb ...
New Fabric Generates Electricity Via Your Body Heat
This isn’t your father’s beakers and test tube science. Scientists and a graduate student, Core Hewitt, at Wake Forest’s Center for ...
Nanotechnology solar cell turns windows into power generator ...
(Nanowerk News) Imagine a world where the windows of high-rise office buildings are powerful energy producers, offering its inhabitants much more than ...
Malta's 54MW offshore wind hexagon takes shape
The Maltese government has started a public consultation on a plan to install a gigantic 54MW hexagonal floating wind-power station, which is being ...
SurfaceScreen Textile & Leather
SurfaceScreen Textile & Leather is a breakthrough liquid and stain repelling solution for domestic textile applications. SurfaceScreen protects cl ...
Bio-nanobattery
Nobody has yet worked out how to make a good nanobattery, so nanoscale devices are typically driven by power sources many times their own size.
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Curious things about snowflakes
SALT LAKE CITY -- Curiously, one thing you will never find on the side of a snow covered mountain or in the last snowman you built is an eight-sided ( ...
Back to the future - By Howard Johnson BBC World News, Houst ...
The DeLorean Motor Company headquarters in Houston, Texas is something of a Mecca to owners of the DMC-12.
In the reception, glass cabinets are pa ...
The First Self-Powering Nano-Device That Can Also Transmit W ...
ScienceDaily (June 15, 2011) — Scientists are reporting development of the first self-powered nano-device that can transmit data wirelessly over ...
NanoSpire's discoveries in the field of cavitation zero poi ...
"I have spent 3 years in the past working at the Office of Naval Research. While I am not an expert in the phenomena behind what Mark and Serge are w ...
A Demon, a Law, and the Quest for Virtually Free Energy
If you believe what you read on the internet, new sources of energy now exist that can provide limitless, nonpolluting, virtually free power. Supposed ...
Scientists build robot "jellyfish" fueled by sea water. B ...
Scientists funded by the U.S. Navy have developed a robot "jellyfish" — a foot-long submarine that runs on seawater and could be used on spy m ...
Nanospire's Cavitation Re-Entrant Jets Useful in Micro-Nano ...
NanoSpire has pioneered a technology in cavitation that reaches across many markets, including many applications in nanotechnology and energy. Example ...
Opening the Gate to Robust Quantum Computing: New Technique ...
ScienceDaily (Apr. 9, 2012) — Scientists have overcome a major hurdle facing quantum computing: how to protect quantum information from degradat ...
Scientists turn cyborg snail into living battery
A snail transformed into a living battery has moved the world one step closer to having tiny cyborg spies underfoot.
The pioneering experiment har ...
Nanotechnology carrying cotton into 21st century
Cotton is going high-tech in New Orleans, La., where a team of U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists is continuing a long tradition of innovative ...
Wind turbine that conjures drinking water out of thin air
Wind turbines could also provide drinking water in humid climates following a breakthrough by a French engineering firm.
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World's smallest battery will put power everywhere
University researchers make a battery out of a nanowire, setting the record for the smallest powerpack. Someday the batteries could be inside your bo ...
Oh, my stars and hexagons! DNA code shapes gold nanoparticle ...
University of Illinois chemists found that DNA can shape gold nanoparticle growth similarly to the way it shapes protein synthesis, with different let ...
Steam Without Boiling Water
Scientists Use Sunlight To Produce Power With Nanotechnology. From EarthTechling's Beth Buczynski: Steam can be used to power all sorts of things, ...