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New approach to trapping sunlight with silicon nanowires
Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are developing a new approach, which would use silicon nanowires to better trap sunlight for future renewable green energy equations.
Although there are silicon photovoltaics that can convert sunlight into electricity at impressive 20 percent efficiencies, the cost of this solar power is [...]
Now, cheap, efficient, flexible solar cells made from nanopillars
Washington, July 10 (ANI): Scientists have found a new way to make cheap, efficient, and flexible solar cells by using nanopillars made of low-cost and flexible materials.
The design by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence [...]
Sulfate particles enhance climate warming properties of atmospheric soot
Washington, June 30 (ANI): A new study has found that particles of sulfate, thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight, instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot.
Recent atmospheric models have ranked soot, also called black carbon, second [...]
New computer model may improve airport pandemic influenza screening system
Washington, May 20 (ANI): A team of scientists from four national laboratories in the U.S. have created a computer model that can help airport authorities screen passengers for pandemic influenza.
Project leader Robert Brigantic says that the novel tool may prove useful in estimating false negatives, people with influenza who slip through the screening process, [...]
New technique standardizes brightness of cosmology’s best standard candles
Washington, May 19 (ANI): Scientists have found a new technique that establishes the intrinsic brightness of Type Ia supernovae, which are considered the best standard candles for measuring cosmic distances, more accurately than ever before.
The technique has been found by members of the international Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), a collaboration between the US Department of [...]
Carbon from lush plankton blooms never reaches the deep ocean
Washington, May 7 (ANI): A new analysis has revealed that most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms, whether artificially fertilized or natural, never reaches the deep ocean.
The analysis was based on data collected by deep-diving Carbon Explorer that floats continuously, straight through the Antarctic winter.
The researchers who did the analysis were oceanographers Jim Bishop [...]
Scientists create glass that’s harder and tougher than stainless steel
Washington, March 18 (ANI): A team of scientists has made a new type of glass from opaque titanium and zirconium, which is harder, tougher and weighs less than stainless steel.
According to a report in Discovery News, the glass has been developed by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, US.
The scientists who developed [...]
Discovery of gene behind brain’s aging may pave way for effective treatments
Washington, January 17 (ANI): A team of Canadian and American researchers has reached a step closer to developing effective treatments to prevent the brain from diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s by identifying a gene that controls the normal and pathological aging of neurons in the central nervous system.
The team – comprising scientists from the Universite [...]
How painting the town white will reduce global warming
London, Jan 17 (ANI): In a new study, a scientist has come up with the suggestion that global warming may be tackled with white paint.
According to a report in The Guardian, the scientist in question is Hashem Akbari from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, US, who suggests painting roads and the rooftops of [...]
