There are roof shapes and ratios that maximize heat retainment and energy efficiency and, interestingly, ancient Italian architects and builders seemed to know it, too. While serving as a visiting ...

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Chemists at the University of California Riverside (UCR) have devised a way of increasing solar cell efficiency by as much as 30%. With current photovoltaic cells unable to surpass 33% due to the ...

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Engineers have turned the physics of earthquakes into a tool for shrinking and supercharging the chips inside phones and ...

Quantum computers could rapidly solve complex problems that would take the most powerful classical supercomputers decades to ...