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IT
Italy’s first digital twin simulates 60 million synthetic users
The digital twin of Italy simulates 60 million synthetic users to test policies, products, and smart city solutions without real-world risks
Editorial Team•9 April 2025

Energy
New semitransparent BIPV panel from Spain…
BIPV breakthrough from Spain: a semitransparent solar panel with tracking and micro-concentration…
Editorial Team•7 April 2025

Energy
Rubidium strain enhances perovskite cell efficiency…
Incorporating rubidium into perovskite solar cells via lattice strain has been shown…
Editorial Team•7 April 2025

Tech innovations and Startups
Transforming skyscrapers into gravity batteries
Researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis have developed a new concept for energy…
2 June 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Rechargeable batteries: Science identifies the formula for lasting 100 years
Tesla’s battery research group at Dalhousie University is investigating the potential of lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt rechargeable batteries, devices…
1 June 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Carbon capture, the world’s fastest system has 99% efficiency
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed new carbon-capturing storage directly from the atmosphere, with unprecedented…
31 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
A biobattery to store hydrogen safely
A group of scientists creates the first biological-based system for the accumulation and release of H2.…
30 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Smart textiles and photovoltaics, now you can wash and recycle
The three-year Sun-powered Textiles project has developed a new method to make solar cells adhere to…
26 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Printable solar cells, new polymer improves yield
A team of researchers has created a new polymer complex conductive able to make organic photovoltaics…
26 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
World’s most efficient solar photovoltaic cell created, close to 40%
Researchers of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States have created a triple junction…
24 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Biological solar cells, bacteria power a microprocessor for over 1 year
Cambridge researchers have created a new photosynthetic device capable of powering an Arm Cortex M0+ microprocessor…
20 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Photovoltaics night: the anti-solar cells of UNSW does not fear the dark
New advances for photovoltaics and the technology of "anti solar cells" thanks to the thermal radiation…
18 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Series production of sodium-ion batteries begins in the USA
Natron Energy has partnered with Clarios International to build the world’s largest sodium-ion battery factory. The…
17 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
Italy experiments artificial intelligence to improve building efficiency
A team of Italian researchers used Artificial Intelligence to simulate some energy strategies achieving a 13%…
16 May 2022

Tech innovations and Startups
FoilMet® transforms rigid solar cells into flexible solar modules
From the Fraunhofer ISE a new laser process to connect solar cells without busbars. Improving design…