Microsoft will be celebrating the one-year birthday of Windows 11 with the release of a major update codenamed “Sun Valley 2”. If you have a Windows 11 device, you’ll get the update automatically, and for absolutely free provided that your device...
The most important properties of a semiconductor to be used as a solar cell include the mobility and lifetime of electrons and "holes". Both quantities can be measured without contacts with spectroscopic methods using terahertz or microwave radiation. However, measurement data...
BARCELONA — Mobile World Congress made a big comeback this year — but the term on everyone’s lips wasn’t “smartphones” or “5G.”
Instead, it was the “metaverse,” a vague concept used to describe vast digital worlds in which users can work, play games or even party.
The term has been the...
There are clear environmental benefits to driving an electric vehicle (EV). But will it leave you stranded between charging stations? Here we’ll look at how an EV’s battery range compares to a tank of gasoline.
How Far Can You Drive an EV on a Single Charge?
“Range anxiety,” or the fear...
It's time to make the switch to triple-pane windows. That's the message from a series of studies led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in collaboration with a coalition of public and private partners.
"Lower costs, greater availability, and the drive to reduce carbon emissions are pushing...
Call it the electric T-shirt. Or, as the researchers at the University of California San Diego have dubbed it, the "wearable microgrid."
Whatever its nickname, the long-sleeve shirt designed by the brainiacs at the Jacobs School of Engineering can harvest and store energy while the wearer is moving or exercising....
Nearly 4.2GW of battery storage capacity was added to the US grid in 2021, according to a new report from BloombergNEF which also looked at growth in the country’s lithium-ion manufacturing capacity.
The ‘Sustainable Energy in America...
Solar electricity is produced almost entirely by panels, or modules, constructed with light-absorbing cells made from silicon. Silicon is the industry standard because it is reliable and inexpensive, with structure and performance that are well understood.
But...
Gadgets are getting too thin, again.
These past few weeks saw some of the latest victims of the seemingly unending drive towards making our devices as thin as possible, no matter the consequences. Samsung’s Galaxy S22 and...
There's nothing worse than picking up a new flagship Android device, only to find out software restrictions hold it back from peak performance. Samsung's Galaxy S22 series might be running on some seriously powerful hardware, but as we reported yesterday, the company throttles its...
