Although it represents an office building whose sustainability in general is sometimes questionable, the 25 York Street (Telus House Toronto) still serves as an example how office buildings can be improved in order to conserve resources and provide healthier working environment. Located on the northeast corner of York Street and Bremner Boulevard in downtown Toronto,… »

Aside the technology being used to generate the energy from the sun, the efficiency of solar panels also depends on the cleanliness of the panels. Moisture and dust debris piled up on their surface require time consuming and costly maintenance, however, a group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania used bio-inspiration to develop a… »

Blindness is often caused by corneal diseases which are usually treated with a corneal transplant, but in many cases this is not possible and donor corneas are often hard to come by. In order to solve this problem, a group of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (Fraunhofer IAP) is developing two… »

Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a way to create nature inspired elements out of germanium sulfide (GeS) – a non-toxic semiconductor material – that could one day be used in creation of next-generation energy storage devices and solar cells. They managed to use this method to create flower-like GeS structures that have… »

A group of researchers from Rice University led by chemist James Tour came to a discovery that it was possible to make bits of computer memory from silicon oxide and carbon. Their research could lead to transparent, non-volatile, heat- and radiation-resistant memory chips which provide more memory storage while being smaller compared to memory chips… »

While some may wonder how our ancestors managed to realize similar solutions in architecture throughout the different cultures around the world, researchers from the University of Seville (Spain) propose that climate played a major role in that process. They also used mathematical tools to reveal the phenomenon that the temperature inside the typical Mediterranean courtyard… »

Imec, Holst Centre and Panasonic have developed a new prototype of a wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) headset which combines ease-of-use with ultra-low power electronics. The system is integrated into imec’s EEG headset with dry electrodes, which enables real time EEG recordings with minimal set-up time and it represents a step towards reliable high-quality wearable EEG monitoring… »

Food-safety-focused studies by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues unexpectedly led to development of more effective prescription drugs used in fight against severe fungal infections. They found that pairing conventional antifungal medicines with compounds from plants— such as thymol, edible compound extracted from the popular herb thyme—can boost the healing effects of… »