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A High-temperature Thermoelectric System made of Silicon Nanowire is Efficient

A High-temperature Thermoelectric System made of Silicon Nanowire is Efficient

Berkeley Lab has developed a cost-effective thermoelectric waste-heat recovery system with a $2 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to reduce electricity-related carbon…
Scholz’s Star – a Binary Stellar System in the Constellation Monoceros

Scholz’s Star – a Binary Stellar System in the Constellation Monoceros

Scholz’s Star is a nearby star that passed through the Solar System’s Oort cloud approximately 70,000 years ago. It is a dim binary stellar system…
According to Recent Research, Using Brain-Training Software can Help Individuals Consume Less Junk Food and Lose Weight

According to Recent Research, Using Brain-Training Software can Help Individuals Consume Less Junk Food and Lose Weight

The Food Trainer (FoodT app) teaches users to touch on photos of nutritious foods but to stop when they encounter harmful snacks, establishing a link…
Polymer Makes Thermoplastics Tougher Recyclable

Polymer Makes Thermoplastics Tougher Recyclable

To make plastic, small monomer molecules are strung together like beads in a necklace to form long polymer chains. However, not all plastics—or the polymers…
New Technique for Thermal Wave Diagnosis Increases the Testing of Battery Performance

New Technique for Thermal Wave Diagnosis Increases the Testing of Battery Performance

With increased interest in backup power, solar power storage, and electric vehicles, the race to improve rechargeable lithium battery performance is on. A Berkeley Lab…
Borate Phosphates – Mixed Anion Compounds

Borate Phosphates – Mixed Anion Compounds

Borate phosphates are mixed anion compounds that contain separate anions of borate and phosphate. They differ from borophosphates in that the borate is linked to…
One Ladybug’s Surprise Appearance during a 59-Year-Old Man’s Colonoscopy

One Ladybug’s Surprise Appearance during a 59-Year-Old Man’s Colonoscopy

When entering the human colon, gastroenterologists can expect to see some things. A tumor, scar, ulcer, and small pus are all common, but sometimes intestinal…
Major Atlantic Ocean Current System May be Close to Collapse, New Study Indicates

Major Atlantic Ocean Current System May be Close to Collapse, New Study Indicates

New research shows that the current system of the vast oceans that includes gulf currents is losing stability possibly near a tipping point that will…
Japanese Nature Reserve Welcomes its Feisty First Female Alpha Macaque

Japanese Nature Reserve Welcomes its Feisty First Female Alpha Macaque

A female Japanese macaque Takasakiyama has become the first female alpha in the Natural Zoological Garden, an incredibly rare occurrence for the species. A nine-year-old…
Indonesia’s Komodo Island “Jurassic Park” will Still go Ahead, Despite how that Sounds

Indonesia’s Komodo Island “Jurassic Park” will Still go Ahead, Despite how that Sounds

Well, that’s a surprise. Just two years after the island of Komodo was declared closed to the public – there have been 2,000 or more…
Huge Structure Detected in the Milky Way Maybe a New Spiral Arm

Huge Structure Detected in the Milky Way Maybe a New Spiral Arm

Like stumbling across a room in your home, astronomers have found a huge path of gas hidden at the outer edge of our galaxy. Named…
A Sweat-powered, Stretchable Battery has been designed for Wearable Technology

A Sweat-powered, Stretchable Battery has been designed for Wearable Technology

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) researchers have created a soft and stretchable battery that is powered by human perspiration. The prototype battery is made…
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