http://www.ccnmag.com Fri, 24 May 2013 14:25:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/solar_panels_as_inexpensive_as_paint_ Most Americans want the U.S. to place more emphasis on developing solar power, recent polls suggest. A major impediment, however, is the cost to manufacture, install and maintain solar panels CalTechNews Mon, 13 May 2013 19:18:09 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/do-it-yourself_invisibility_with_3-d_printing Seven years ago, Duke University engineers demonstrated the first working invisibility cloak in complex laboratory experiments. Now it appears creating a simple cloak has become a lot simpler CalTechNews Mon, 06 May 2013 18:29:45 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/clean_electricity_from_bacteria_ Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria CalTechNews Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:09:45 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/paint-on_plastic_electronics Semiconducting polymers are an unruly bunch, but University of Michigan engineers have developed a new method for getting them in line that could pave the way for cheaper, greener, "paint-on" plastic electronics CalTechNews Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:31:13 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/creating_indestructible_self-healing_circuits Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from problems ranging from less-than-ideal battery power to total transistor failure CalTechNews Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:16:46 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/cheap_hydrogen_from_water_one_step_closer Hydro­gen has tremen­dous poten­tial as an eco-friendly fuel, but it is expen­sive to pro­duce. Now researchers at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity and Rut­gers Uni­ver­sity have moved a step closer to har­ness­ing nature to pro­duce hydro­gen for us CalTechNews Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:02:33 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/revolutionary_cooling_system_uses_lasers With the latest discovery by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), current cooling systems which uses refrigerant harmful to the ozone layer could be replaced by a revolutionary cooling system using lasers. CalTechNews Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:33:54 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/evolution_inspires_more_efficient_solar_cell_design The sun's energy is virtually limitless, but harnessing its electricity with today's single-crystal silicon solar cells is extremely expensive -- 10 times pricier than coal CalTechNews Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:39:08 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/light_switch_inside_brain_laser_controls_individual_nerve_cells_in_mouse Activating and deactivating individual nerve cells in the brain is something many neuroscientists wish they could do, as it would help them to better understand how the brain works CalTechNews Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:24:55 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/thin_film_solar_cells In a remarkable feat, scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have developed thin film solar cells on flexible polymer foils with a new record efficiency of 20.4% for converting sunlight into electricity CalTechNews Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:20:05 +0100