Smart windows take a page from nature's pinecone playbook
An innovative new window system keeps your home comfortable without using a single watt of electricity and could change the way we think about energy efficiency in buildings.
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New hybrid solar cell can store power, demonstrates 14.9% total energy utilization
BarcelonaTech (UPC) in Spain have designed hybrid solar cells that can generate electricity and store it onboard. This is the ...
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NASA's launching a satellite constellation this month to study the solar wind in 3D
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
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Quantum tricks turn leaves into perfect solar panels, scientists unravel how
Researchers try to decode the quantum mechanics of chlorophyll, Nature’s near-perfect light harvester, to harness solar ...
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Solar panels on train tracks: French railway testing new system for power generation
The latest container-based solar-plus-storage plant developed by AREP, an SNCF subsidiary, can be placed on the rails and ...
Astronomy on MSN3d
Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions?
While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.
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Tiny tube experiments simulate solar system’s only moon with an atmosphere
Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...
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Weekly Word Wanderings: Engaging Articles of the Week
In 2014, representatives of the International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling committee jetted to southern Alberta ...
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State rolls out first-of-its-kind solar facility with surprising feature: 'Enabled us to move forward'
"Every little bit helps." State rolls out first-of-its-kind solar facility with surprising feature: 'Enabled us to move ...
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...