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Performance levels barely dropped after two months of constant use.

World’s Most Durable And Efficient Solar Cell Smashes Existing Records

Researchers have successfully measured the quantum structure of radium monofluoride (RaF) using ion-trapping and specialized laser techniques, allowing for the detailed characterization of its rotational energy levels and establishing a laser-cooling scheme. These findings are crucial for future experiments focused on laser-cooling and trapping RaF molecules, which are expected to...

Physicists Just Made a Breakthrough That Could Explain Why We Exist

Scientists at Oxford University are coating a new solar power-generating material onto objects such as rucksacks, cars, and mobile phones. The potential of this breakthrough means that increasing amounts of solar electricity could be generated without silicon-based solar panels. The Oxford scientists’ new light-absorbing material is, for the first time,...

Oxford scientists are generating solar power without panels

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. In solar cells and light-emitting diodes, maintaining the excited state kinetics of molecules against annihilation is a race against time. These systems need to strike a careful balance between different processes that lead to loss of energy and those that lead to the desired outcome.

Stronger Together: Coupling Excitons to Polaritons for Better Solar Cells & Higher Intensity LEDs

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. Fossil energy stakeholders have been ginning up opposition to large-scale solar farms, but they should have been watching their backs. The latest development in photovoltaic technology involves low-cost perovskite solar cells created in the form of a solution which can be applied to a thin film or coated onto almost any surface. The opposition will need to figure out a new angle of attack when the world is suddenly plastered with perovskites.

Sheer Chaos As Paint-On Perovskite Solar Cells Take Over

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“When I think of my whole career in physics, this is the work that I think 10 to 20 years from now could change the world.”

MIT’s breakthrough transistor could be game-changer for electronics

Sunlight-photosynthesizing organisms like plants and algae have long been believed to be the Earth's original producers of oxygen. But now, researchers have found evidence of a natural O2 factory that needs neither the Sun nor the lifeforms that harness its power. The source is a chemical reaction taking place in rocks lying on the lightless seafloor thousands of feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, releasing what the researchers have dubbed "dark oxygen."

Scientists Say They've Detected a Strange Source of Electricity at the Bottom of the Ocean

Researchers have developed a method to predict the speed and arrival time of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) before they fully erupt from the Sun. This advancement utilizes the measurement of the critical height in Active Regions on the Sun to enhance the accuracy of space weather forecasts. These predictions are crucial for protecting Earth’s technological infrastructure from geomagnetic storms that can disrupt satellites, power grids, and communication networks.

Eyes on the Skies: Scientists Crack Code on Earth-Threatening Solar Storms

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Oxford University scientists may have solved one of the greatest hindrances of expanding access to solar energy. Scientists from the university’s physics department have created an ultra-thin layer of material that can be applied to the exterior of objects with sunlight access in place of bulky silicon-based solar panels.

Oxford scientists' new light-absorbing material can turn everyday objects into solar panels

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. Thanks to the DNA of a new pure EV brand called AEHRA, Italy has gained international attention. Speaking of EV DNA, the company reflects on the freedom they had when they left internal combustion engines behind, saying that “Liberated from the need to accommodate a bulky internal combustion engine into the front of the car, AEHRA’s designers have delivered a revolution in automotive aesthetics.”

14-Year Battery Warranty for Double Decker, Sportiest Electric Volkswagen — EV News Roundup

The incredible 3D visualization can show what really happens inside a Tokamak.

Fly Inside A Nuclear Fusion Reactor Thanks To This Spectacular Simulation

Scientists have developed a novel way to recycle toxic waste — extracting gold from old electronics using a byproduct of a staple cuisine in many cultures. Researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich announced in a press release that they used "denatured" whey proteins (the watery portion of cheese that separates from curds) to create a sponge to recover gold ions from e-waste.

Scientists develop novel method to extract gold from old electronics using cheese — here's how it works

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The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations remain elusive.

James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible

(Nanowerk News) Harnessing the power of the sun is vital for a clean, green future. To do so, we need optoelectronic devices, like solar cells, that can convert light into electricity efficiently. Now, a team led by Osaka University has discovered how to further improve device efficiency: by controlling how light-absorbing molecules stack together.

Stacking molecules like plates improves organic solar device performance

The team highlights that their new method is “5,000 times more efficient than previous schemes to globally warm Mars.”

Nanoparticles could warm Mars by 50°Fahrenheit, make planet habitable

Researchers are now reporting a better understanding of coronal mass ejections. Though predicting space weather can be difficult, researchers are now reporting a better understanding of solar storms. Coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, are powerful expulsions of the Sun’s magnetic field and plasma. The plasma can sometimes cause geomagnetic storms...

Researchers May Have Found a Way to Predict the Intensity of Solar Storms

Researchers led by Dr. Olga Kocharovskaya, a distinguished professor at Texas A&M University, have successfully demonstrated a novel way to store and release X-ray pulses at the single photon level, achieving quantum memory in the notoriously difficult hard X-ray range. This breakthrough was made possible by using Doppler-shifted nuclear resonant absorbers to form a nuclear frequency comb. The team’s findings, published in Science Advances, open up new possibilities for future X-ray quantum technologies.

Scientists Achieve Quantum Memory Breakthrough in Hard X-Ray Range

Soon, data storage centers are expected to consume almost 10% of the world's energy generation. This increase is, among other things, due to intrinsic limitations of the materials used—ferromagnets. Consequently, this problem has ignited a quest for faster and more energy-efficient materials. One of the most encouraging pathways are...

Hidden harmonies: Team discovers magnon–phonon Fermi resonance in an antiferromagnet

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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Image: Researcher Aly Kombargi holds a jar of aluminum pellets as they start to react in seawater. | Tony Pulsone. The engineers believe they have discovered the recipe for running a sustainable hydrogen reactor, which they plan to test first in marine and underwater vehicles. A research team at MIT...

MIT Team Creates Clean Hydrogen with Seawater, Soda Cans, Caffeine

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The “Spin” Around Perovskite Solar Cells Has Only Just Begun

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!. The buzz around perovskite solar cells has been building to...

The “Spin” Around Perovskite Solar Cells Has Only Just Begun

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