'Fog harp' increases collection capacity for clean water
Fog harvesting may look like whimsical work.
Materials Science
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News tagged with harvests
For global invasion, Argentine ants use chemical weapons
From their native home on the banks of South America's Paraná River, Argentine ants have conquered six continents and many oceanic islands. Their success is explained by several factors: they have more than one queen per ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2018
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Pathway opens to minimize waste in solar energy capture
Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science have made an important discovery with significant implications for the future of solar cell material design.
Materials Science
Jan 22, 2018
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Photosensitive perovskites change shape when exposed to light
A crystalline material that changes shape in response to light could form the heart of novel light-activated devices. Perovskite crystals have received a lot of attention for their efficiency at converting sunlight into electricity, ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 28, 2017
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Deconstructing osmosis provides insight for medical and industrial use
Osmosis, the fluid phenomenon responsible for countless slug deaths at the hands of mischievous children, is fundamentally important not only to much of biology, but also to engineering and industry. Most simply put, osmosis ...
General Physics
May 18, 2017
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Battery-free implantable medical device draws energy directly from human body
Researchers from UCLA and the University of Connecticut have designed a new biofriendly energy storage system called a biological supercapacitor, which operates using charged particles, or ions, from fluids in the human body. ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 11, 2017
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El Nino, Pacific Decadal Oscillation implicated in domoic acid shellfish toxicity
Researchers today reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a strong correlation between toxic levels of domoic acid in shellfish and the warm-water ocean conditions orchestrated by two powerful forces - ...
Environment
Jan 9, 2017
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New composite technology for enhanced electrical and thermal conductivity of conventional composite materials
New technology that could enhance both the electrical and thermal conductivity of conventional composite materials has been developed thanks to a collaboration between the University of Surrey, University of Bristol and the ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 19, 2016
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Scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment
A new concept in energy harvesting could capture energy that is currently mostly wasted due to its characteristic low frequency and use it to power next-generation electronic devices. In a project funded by electronics giant ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 16, 2016
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Purple bacteria shine path to super-efficient light harvesting
In its billions of years on earth, plant life has become super-efficient at using light – and now it's showing how it does it.
General Physics
Nov 1, 2016
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