Engineering News

Sunlight and seawater could make electricity to power tomorrow's fuel cells. Researchers at Osaka University developed an efficient way to turn water into hydrogen peroxide, which is a practical alternative to hydrogen gas.

We previously reported that perovskite solar cells could be healed by the dark, and...

An international team of researchers developed energy-storing devices that could be used to make transparent, flexible electronics. They used a new technique to fabricate supercapacitors made of carbon nanotube films.

German researchers have set a new world record for wireless data transmission. They achieved six gigabits per second, sending the entire contents of a DVD in less than ten seconds using radio waves.

Tiny insect-sized drones can help with search and rescue missions by looking for survivors in hard to reach places. But small drones don’t have a lot of space for batteries, so they run out of energy quickly. A team of Harvard roboticists has developed a way for small drones to stay in the air longer.

A team of nanoengineers and electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have...

Soft actuators are emerging in robotics because they are small, affordable, and could potentially be safer around humans than traditional rigid robots. However, elastic actuators (stretchy membranes that get filled with air) usually must be connected to pumps and compressors in order to work. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany have developed an alternative.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have figured out why perovskite solar cells degrade in sunlight, and better yet—they have also discovered a solution.

IBM has achieved a breakthrough that could dramatically expand the applications for Phase-Change Memory (PCM) storage. This optical storage technology has already been used in Blue-ray disks and elsewhere for the last 15 years, but now researchers have dramatically increased the capacity.

A fire on Thursday shut down a generator at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating...