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Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, presented on Tuesday a solar cell on a sheet of paper, marking a major breakthrough in research of renewable energy. At an event held yesterday, the Italian company Eni and MIT inaugurated the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Research Center, for research in solar energy, new materials to the [...]

The era of prime time news might just be on the brink of a new revolution, if everything goes according to the plan set up by the visionary researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois who are on the fast track to develop the world’s first computerized news telecast called “News At Seven”. This [...]

Algae, some of the earliest plant-like organisms on Earth, and just as photosynthetic as plants on land, are classified as simple plants ‘because they lack the many distinct organs found in land plants.’ They can also grow away from farms and forests, and thus do not pose a threat to ecosystems and food-chains. Some algae species are rich in oil. [...]

Ever wonder where some of the dust, fungal spores, germs, and bacteria go during wind storms? They travel great distances, that’s where. A big part of the volume reaches the atmosphere and gets stored in clouds. In fact, they help in cloud formation. Of course, we can just stretch our imagination a bit and we’ll know that these germs and bacteria [...]