http://www.caltechnews.com Tue, 22 May 2012 21:13:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/scientists_generate_electricity_from_viruses Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe CalTechNews Tue, 15 May 2012 07:54:13 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/scientists_plan_1b_ghost_town A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology -- but no people CalTechNews Sun, 13 May 2012 23:13:40 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/solar_cell_that_also_shines_breaks_record Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have suggested -- and demonstrated -- a counterintuitive concept: solar cells should be designed to be more like LEDs, able to emit light as well as absorb it. CalTechNews Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:07:52 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/tv_as_thin_as_a_sheet_of_paper_ Imagine owning a television with the thickness and weight of a sheet of paper. It will be possible, someday, thanks to the growing industry of printed electronics CalTechNews Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:59:56 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/cellphones_that_can_see_through_walls_ Comic book hero superpowers may be one step closer to reality after the latest technological feats made by researchers. They have designed an imager chip that could turn mobile phones into devices that can see through walls, wood, plastics, paper and othe CalTechNews Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:26:06 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/magnetic_field_researchers_target_100-tesla_goal Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility have just met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments CalTechNews Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:56:39 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/graphene_supercapacitor_for_small_electronics Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer in that they store sustantially higher amounts of charges CalTechNews Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:21:24 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/generating_power_from_salty_water_unique_salt_allows_energy_production_to_move_inland Penn State researchers can combine bacterial degradation of waste water with energy extracted from the salt-water fresh-water gradient to produce power anywhere CalTechNews Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:32:11 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/rainbow_in_the_palm_of_your_hand University at Buffalo engineers have developed a one-step, low-cost method to fabricate a polymer with extraordinary properties CalTechNews Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:31:09 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/replacing_electricity_with_light The technological world of the 21st century owes a tremendous amount to advances in electrical engineering, specifically, the ability to finely control the flow of electrical charges using increasingly small and complicated circuits CalTechNews Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:53:20 +0100