#breakthrough discovery

MIT’s Solar-Powered Desalination System More Efficient, Less Expensive

A team of researchers at MIT and in China has developed a new solar-powered desalination system that is both more efficient and less expensive than previous solar desalination methods. The process could be used to treat contaminated wastewater or to generate steam for sterilizing medical instruments, all without requiring any power source other than sunlight itself. Many attempts at…

HPT has collaborated with NREL on perovskite ink for solar cells, like this one developed by NREL researcher David Moore (Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL).

For the past six years, a major US oil and gas holding company has been collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Lab on new breakthrough perovskite solar cell research. What a twist!

The effort has been conducted through a relatively…

UCF Researchers Develop Device That Mimics Brain Cells Used for Human Vision – AI for Autonomous Rescue Drones? Robotics?

The UCF-developed device is an important step in the fields of AI and robotics.

University of Central Florida researchers are helping to close the gap separating human and machine minds.

In a study featured as the cover article appearing today in the journal Science Advances, a UCF research team showed that by combining two promising nanomaterials into a new superstructure, they could…

China made an artificial star that’s 6 times (6X) as hot as our sun … And it could be the future of energy

Nuclear fusion could be the future of energy, replacing fossil fuels with our own artificial stars.

China built a fusion reactor that reaches temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius — that’s six times as hot as the sun.

The reactor is called Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak(EAST) and sustained nuclear fusion for about 10 seconds before shutting down.

While it was a milestone…

Melanoma in skin biopsy with H&E stain — this case may represent superficial spreading melanoma. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a novel nano-vaccine for melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer. Their innovative approach has so far proven effective in preventing the development of melanoma in mouse models and in treating primary tumors…

Abstract: Researchers at Oregon State University have developed an improved technique for using magnetic nanoclusters to kill hard-to-reach tumors.

Magnetic nanoparticles – tiny pieces of matter as small as one-billionth of a meter – have shown anti-cancer promise for tumors easily accessible by syringe, allowing the particles to be injected directly into the cancerous growth.

Once injected…

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Army research is the first to develop computational models using a microbiology procedure that may be used to improve novel cancer treatments and treat combat wounds.

Using the technique, known as electroporation, an electrical field is applied to cells in order to increase the permeability of the cell membrane, allowing chemicals, drugs, or DNA to be introduced…