Strategic alliance to produce “ground-breaking” wind-solar hybrid systems

Wind - Strategic alliance to produce ?ground-breaking? wind-solar hybrid systems - Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism

Quick win: aviation biofuels offers breakout for clean energy

In Copenhagen this week, a coalition of companies and associations involved in aviation biofuels made a strong case for the sector not only as a quick win for biofuels, but as a quick win for clean energy as a whole.

Physicists localize 3-D matter waves for first time [+video]

University of Illinois physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time how three-dimensional conduction is affected by the defects that plague materials. Understanding these effects is important for many electronics applications.

NASA-approved electric airplane flies 200 miles in 2 hours

So this is cool. Electric airplanes have been gracing our pages for years now, and while they remain infeasible as a replacement for commercial airliners (duh), they continue to inspire folks with their increasingly impressive feats of sustainable

Japanese flair for detail elevates 'earth-bricks' house by Atelier Tekuto

Photos: Toshihiro Sobajima for Atelier Tekuto Earth building is unusual in Japan, a nation better-known for its high-tech and ultra-modern architecture. That's why this single-storey earth-brick residence in Chiba, Japan by Atelier Tekuto is so striking:

Iberia completes first commercial biofuel flight

Biofuels - Iberia completes first commercial biofuel flight - Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism

20 best microphotos of 2011

Check out photos of the 20 Best Microphotos of 2011

Weird exoplanetary system dances to the beat

If there's one thing to be said for the Kepler mission, it's certainly turning up some very strange new worlds.

The rise of artificial intelligence personal assistant

Soon each and every one of us will have a PA, even PAs themselves. Artificial Intelligence Assistants are at last making a proper entrance.

ALMA Opens Its Eyes. The most powerful millimetre/submillimetre-wavelength telescope in the world opens for business and reveals its first image

Humanity's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has officially opened for astronomers. The first released image, from a telescope still under construction, reveals a view of the Universe that cannot be seen at all by visible-light and infrared telescopes. Thousands of scientists from around the world have competed to be among the first few researchers to explore some of the darkest, coldest, furthest, and most hidden secrets of the cosmos with this new astronomical tool.

The future of transportation on a planet with 7 billion people

Photo: Flickr, CC Take a Step Back and Look As we near the moment when our planet officially hosts 7 billion people (of course this is just a statistical guess - nobody's sure precisely how many humans are on Earth), we need to take some time to think

19 year old improves solar power capacity by 40%

The idea is such a simple one: rotate solar panels to follow the sun throughout the day so they capture the most of the sun's energy as possible. Solar power tracking systems have been around for some time, but a 19-year-old

New ‘FeTRAM’ memory uses 99 percent less energy than flash memory

A new type of nonvolatile computer memory that could be faster than the existing commercial memory and use far less power than flash memory devices is being

Smart clothing: memory-storing fiber could lead to smart fabrics and wearable electronics

Scientists at the Center for Nanotechnology at NASA Ames Research Center have developed a new flexible memory fabric woven together from interlocking