A material that emits less energy than it absorbs has the potential to save some of the sunlight wasted by solar collectors.

NASA astronaut Nichole “Vapor" Ayers captured a stunning photo of a rare red sprite bolt above a thunderstorm over the Desert ...

Chemists at the School of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently made ...

There are fundamentally two ways to generate electricity. The first is based on electromagnetic induction, which remains the ...

Blessed Oguh, a Ph.D. candidate at Wayne State University’s Department of Chemistry, is helping reshape how scientists ...

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A new blue fluorescent molecule set new top emission efficiencies in both solid and liquid states, according to a University ...

Researchers in Italy have tested how perovskite solar cells could perform underwater and have found that, at very shallow depths, they may even achieve a higher power conversion efficiencies compared ...

Quantum plasmonic biosensors enable self-illumination for real-time, label-free diagnostics with scalable point-of-care applications.

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to researchers in Europe. This extends the study of correlated systems to electron ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

A novel energy-transfer system involving nonaggregated cationic porphyrins adsorbed on an anionic-type clay surface and the electron-transfer reaction that occurs after light harvesting are described.