(Nanowerk News) Scientists are working to turn sunlight and water into fuel. One promising approach is to use mixtures of tiny nanoparticles, whereby different particles play different roles. For ...

Every time you tweet about your meal or check out a new LOLcat, your mobile device churns away to crunching bits and flinging data through the air to make it all happen seamlessly. While technology is ...

The new experiment comes from Washington University in St. Louis and it relates to a class of bacteria called phototrophes, such as Cyanobacteria, which can transform light energy into an ...

A key challenge for scientists striving to produce on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is preventing what are called runaway electrons, particles unleashed in disrupted fusion ...

Research on a circuit capturing graphene thermal motion and converting it into current. Research on combining graphene with boron nitride, whereby the electrons in graphene should skew their motion ...

Novel camera detects the birth of high-energy runaway electrons, which may lead to determining how to prevent damage caused by the highly energetic particles. A key challenge for scientists striving ...