The warming of the Indian Ocean, caused by global climate change, may be causing a…
INFRASTRUCTURE
Faster-Charging, Safer Batteries
Imagine a world where cell phones and laptops can be charged in a matter of…
Crowdsourced Field Data Shows Importance of Smallholder Farms to Global Food Production
A new global field size data set collected as part of a crowdsourcing citizen science…
Adding Power Choices Reduces Cost and Risk of Carbon-Free Electricity
In major legislation passed at the end of August, California committed to creating a 100…
MIT Energy Initiative Study Reports on the Future of Nuclear Energy
How can the world achieve the deep carbon emissions reductions that are necessary to slow…
Generating Electrical Power from Waste Heat
Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that…
New 28-GHz Transceiver Paves the Way for Future 5g Devices
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have designed and fabricated a tiny, but incredibly fast,…
New Control Strategy Helps Reap Maximum Power from Wind Farms
Every two and a half hours, a new wind turbine rises in the U.S. In…
Self-Assembling, Tunable Interfaces Found in Quantum Materials
Highly adaptive electronics could be created using quantum features A potential revolution in device engineering…
How Energy Storage Is Starting to Rewire the Electricity Industry
The market for energy storage on the power grid is growing at a rapid clip,…
