22+ hour, 15+ min ago Home - Energy - Goodbye to concrete as we know it: welcome to living bricks that repair themselves Imagine a house whose walls could quietly mend tiny cracks before you ever notice them. That idea just moved a little closer to reality…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago What if pieces of Earth's forgotten twin are hiding beneath your feet right now? MIT scientists just cracked geology's biggest mystery, discovering that our planet's oldest rocks aren't actually from Earth as we know it. They're remnants of a'proto-Earth prototype'that…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created revolutionary foam ceramics that have a multifunctional coating, using photovoltaic oxidation to decompose persistent water pollutants. The systems, which are designed to be small-scale, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly, expose functionalized surfaces to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago China is backing living battery tech from microbes, but in the process, China is saying goodbye to lithium hopes. Researchers are considering bio-bacteria that are powered by living bacteria. The living battery has a self-charging efficiency of 99,5% making it worth…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago The search for life beyond Earth has led us to explore Mars, probe Jupiter's moons, and even dream of exoplanets in distant galaxies. But sometimes, the most promising clues lie right here, within our own galaxy" they may be hidden…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago Have you ever heard of something so small that it fits a thousand times inside a strand of hair and yet can double the energy output of a solar panel? Yeah, it sounds crazy. But these are quantum dots, the…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago It was recently in January 2025 that Scientia Professor Xiaojing Hao at UNSW Sydney managed to gain a record of 13,2% efficiency that proves the material is not only useful but capable of possibilities previously believed impossible. 13,2% being the theoretical limit of…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago The first thing we need to keep in mind when we talk about diamond solar cells is that diamonds have always been seen as symbols of luxury, but now they are taking on a somewhat different role: as conductors of…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago When we see headlines talking about the scarcity of drinking water, we are not dealing with a problem of the past or just a concern" this is already a daily challenge in many regions of the planet. Largely due to…...