100-watt LED Bulbs are on the Way Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 A new age of more efficient, cleaner lighting has been an unfulfilled promise for many years. Now thanks to some innovative...
Harvard Scientists Quench Flames using Electricity Thursday, April 14th, 2011 For many years the only way to fight fire was water. Then cComes the 20'th century and special foams and powders which are...
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 - 12:20:20 - Anuradha Menon
Daito Manabe has a history of conducting quirky, painful experiments in which he administers shocks to the human body -- usually his own -- powerful...
Today's computer chips are chunks of silicon that use electrical pulses to crunch data. But IBM researchers are now making chips for tomorrow: chunks...
Saturday, November 6th, 2010 - 18:03:57 - Anuradha Menon
Tens of thousands of turbines anchored to the bottom of the Mississippi River could someday provide more than a gigawatt of renewable energy, enough...
World's Largest Tidal Power Turbine Sunday, September 5th, 2010 The oil and gas fields of the North Sea have been meeting the power needs of the UK population for a number of years but...
Adding carbon-capture technology to a conventional coal plant can nearly double the price of the electricity it produces. This fact represents one of...
