Harvard electrifying under lights
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It wasn't quite "Friday Night Lights," but Harvard delivered a lights-out "Saturday Night Live" performance in staging its first night football game in the 104-year history of venerable Harvard Stadium.
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An electrical pulse through nanotubes and wires helps find the crack.
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Researchers have made analog electronics out of carbon nanotubes.
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A new super-efficient light bulb could spell the end of regular ones, Glasgow scientists claim.
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Tom Shannon's massive spherical blimp design boasts 7 million LEDs. Now the challenge is to get it built. In Gadget Lab.
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College researchers are studying whether electric light changes hormone levels in women and makes breast cancer more prevalent in developed countries.
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Photovoltaics made of nanowires could power small devices and lead to cheaper solar panels.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead. In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Imagine rewiring your house while living in it. Now imagine you're not even sure the new power system will work and you're 220 miles above the Earth.
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BOSTON | Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers made a 60-watt light bulb glow by sending it energy wirelessly - from a device 7 feet away - potentially heralding a future in which cell phones and other gadgets get juice without having to be plugged in.
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Shining a light on the solar industry.
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.
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A University of Idaho professor is devising a new form of solar cell she says could lead to a breakthrough that would make solar energy commercially feasible.
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Scientists capture a beam of light and make it reappear elsewhere, potentially leading to advances in computing.
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High-shutter-speed photography has come a long way from Muybridge's galloping horse in 1887 and even from Edgerton's strobe work in the 1950s and '60s. Milliseconds are an eternity compared to the attosecond images of electron drift we see today, if you get our drift.
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By Tim Blangger, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 25--Some evening after dark, turn off all the lights in your house. After your eyes adjust to the darkness, look around.
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Ultracapacitors will prevent the need for jump starts in chilly weather. In Autopia.