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Solar Plane Makes Record Flight

Monday, August 25th, 2008 - 16:37:30 - Ehud Rattner

A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft. The Zephyr-6, as it is known...

Flexible Solar Nanoantenna

Monday, August 11th, 2008 - 16:49:09 - Iddo Genuth

Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the...

Earthlings Share a Nice Neighborhood

Friday, August 8th, 2008 - 14:32:56 - Anuradha Menon

We don't have spacecraft to take us outside our solar system-not yet, at least. Still, astronomers thought they had a pretty good understanding of...

NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
Friday, August 8th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA has recently presented its “Solar Probe Plus” mission, which aims to send a spaceship to the Sun. At this stage a...

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Minimal Energy used in New Water Refineries

Friday, August 1st, 2008 - 18:17:52 - Anuradha Menon

Using a surprisingly simple, inexpensive technique, chemists have found a way to pull pure oxygen from water using relatively small amounts of...

Major Discovery to Unleash Solar Revolution

Friday, August 1st, 2008 - 10:24:02 - Anuradha Menon

In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have...

Michigan Solar Car Team Wins Race

Monday, July 28th, 2008 - 13:35:24 - Ehud Rattner

In the world of higher education, summer is usually the off-season. But for some students, this summer was the culmination of years of hard work in a...

Alaska Opts for Underground Energy
Monday, July 28th, 2008 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Alaskan state officials have recently announced their intentions to begin funding the exploration and surveying of Alaska’s...