Clear solar cell

Buildings to be powered by Solar Windows

Manhattan has roughly forty seven thousand buildings with around 10.7 million windows, based on a 2013 estimate from The New York Times. Now think about if just 1%, that's 100,700, of these...

Sensitive stuff that goes boom, even if touched by a mosquito

When a feather drops on it, or a mosquito lands on top of nitrogen triiodide – Booom! – an instantaneous dark purple or violet explosion occurs. It's because nitrogen triiodide is...
Darkode before takedown

Student faces 10 years for Android Malware

Morgan C. Culbertson, a student from Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday admitted in federal court to designing and attempting to promote malware that allowed users to take control of other people’s...
Augur info

Peer-to-Peer Predictions: The Greatest Gambling Platform in History?

An online gambling platform could do to the neighborhood bookie what electric refrigerators did to the ice delivery man. Coming this fall, Augur will allow participants to wager money on any future...
CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Subatomic Particles that Appear to defy Standard Model Particle Physics

Subatomic particles have been discovered that seem to defy the Standard Model of particle physics. The team working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have discovered proof of leptons decaying at completely...
RIP flash

Flash ads will stop working in Chrome from Sept 1st, 2015

In case your advertisements are not on the search giant's network (Adsense), they better be in HTML5 – or they're lifeless to Chrome. If they are already on the Adsense, then...
carbon nanofibers

Carbon nano fibres made from thin air

Scientists in the US have discovered a method to take carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and make carbon nano fibres, a useful manufacturing material. Their solar-powered system runs a small current...
Lithium Ion cells

A small mistake helped scientists to quadruple battery lifespan

Until somebody figures out a alternative for lithium-ion in rechargeable batteries, research will continue into find out how to cram extra power inside as well as extending their useful lifespan. Two...

Students want to make it to orbit, and they are close!

  Last month, the Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS), a student venture at Portland State College, launched a rocket out in the Oregon desert, on 19th July 2015 to be exact. The rocket soared almost five kilometers...
MicFlip is reversible

MicFlip : The World’s 1st Reversible Micro USB Cable

There was a lot griping when Apple changed its outdated dock connectors with the reversible Lightning cable, however they’ve made life much simpler for Apple customers. So the MicFlip, the world’s...