12-09-27 A young man once asked his grandpa, Grandpa, how is it that you've accomplished so much in your life? You're still full of energy and I'm already tired of struggling. How can I get the same enthusiasm that you've got? The following is the grandpa's...

12-09-19 Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping mac...

12-09-19 After a tough day, do you come home and flop in your easy chair, grab a bag of chips and zone out in front of the television? Or maybe you compulsively check your e-mail, spend hours surfing the net or stay up late chatting with strangers on Faceboo...

12-09-11 There is enough energy available in winds to meet all of the world's demand. Atmospheric turbines that convert steadier and faster high-altitude winds into energy could generate even more power than ground- and ocean-based units. New research from C...

12-08-20 A team of researchers at RIKEN and the University of Tokyo has demonstrated a new material that promises to eliminate loss in electrical power transmission. The surprise is that their methodology for solving this classic energy problem is based upon...

12-06-25 Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have identified a catalyst（催化剂） that provides the same level of efficiency in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as the currently used platinum catalyst, but at 5% of the cost. Since more than 6...

12-05-15 Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole（鞋底） of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Nation...

12-05-15 Research groups from Iowa State University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have uncovered the function of three plant proteins, a discovery that could help plant scientists boost seed oil production in crops, thereby benefitting the pr...

12-05-11 A detailed description of development of the first practical artificial leaf -- a milestone in the drive for sustainable energy that mimics the process, photosynthesis（光合作用） , that green plants use to convert water and sunlight into energy --...

12-04-20 A new genre of electric power-generating stations could supply electricity for more than a half billion people by tapping just one-tenth of the global potential of a little-known energy source that exists where rivers flow into the ocean, a new anal...