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Hybrid Solar Cell Hits High Efficiency
Startup Silevo achieves 21 percent cell efficiency at its demonstration plant in China using a combination of materials and cost-saving techniques.
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Why Only Designers Can Create New Programming Languages
Attempts to verify the utility of languages stifle innovation.
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SOPA Proves: Hollywood Hates Your Freedom
Old-line media companies have taken a hostage in the battle against modernity: the Internet
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Solyndra: We Told You So
The failure of the government-backed solar company points to the dangers of conflating job creation and energy innovation.
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How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionize Philosophy
The theory of computation has had a profound influence on philosophical thinking. But computational complexity theory is about to have an even bigger effect, argues one computer scientist.
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Why Isn't America Innovating Like It Used To?
It’s easy to imagine that our whiz-bang gadgets have made us more productive than ever. But what if that’s simply not the case?
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Astronomers Find First Evidence Of Other Universes
Our cosmos was “bruised” in collisions with other universes. Now astronomers have found the first evidence of these impacts in the cosmic microwave background
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Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists
Powerful magnetic fields can induce hallucinations in the lab, so why not in the real world, too?
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Why Electric Vehicles Will Be a Long Time Coming
Automakers tout EVs but also believe that conventional cars will dominate for decades.
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New Milestone for CO2 Levels: Mauna Loa Observatory Records 400 PPM
We’ve hit 400 ppm of carbon dioxide, but we won’t know what that means for decades.
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