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June 03, 2026
UAV NEWS
China Moves To Convert Underused Airspace Into A New Industrial Growth Engine
Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

For decades, China's economic growth has largely unfolded on land - across factory floors, highways and ports. Now the country is turning its gaze upward. What was once empty airspace below co ... more


SOLAR DAILY
Phase Change Foam Sustains Solar Desalination Through Low Light And Darkness
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Researchers from Ocean University of China and Huzhou University have developed a phase-change photothermal foam that continues to produce freshwater after sunlight fades, addressing one of the core ... more

OIL AND GAS
Waste Glycerol Powers New Electrochemical Route to Green Hydrogen and Formate
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have developed a next-generation electrochemical system capable of simul ... more

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SOLAR DAILY
Biochar Hydrogel Hybrid Pushes Solar Desalination to New Efficiency Levels
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

A new study published in the journal Biochar demonstrates that combining biochar with advanced polyzwitterionic hydrogels can sharply improve the performance of solar-driven water evaporation system ... more

GPS NEWS
Camera-only navigation system cuts localization drift by up to 95 percent without GPS or LiDAR
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Researchers from Wuhan University and Chongqing University have developed a monocular camera localization system that uses prebuilt colored point cloud maps to sharply reduce navigation drift in env ... more


ENERGY TECH
KIT spinoff develops photoreactor panel for direct solar hydrogen
Berlin (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Photreon, a KIT spin-off, has developed a photoreactor panel that generates hydrogen directly from sunlight and water without electrolyzers or electrical power. 'We avoid the detour through el ... more

TIME AND SPACE
UMD Physicists Find Crystal Symmetry Controls Nuclear Spin States of Molecular Hydrogen
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) May 01, 2026

Chemical physicists at the University of Maryland have demonstrated that the nuclear spin states of molecular hydrogen can be controlled simply by freezing it inside dry-ice crystals - no magnetic f ... more

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SOLAR DAILY
Crystalline buffer layer pushes organic solar cells to 20.21 percent efficiency
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Researchers have achieved a power conversion efficiency of 20.21 percent in pseudo-planar heterojunction organic solar cells by introducing a crystalline polymer buffer layer that shields against so ... more

SOLAR DAILY
Rice engineers suppress perovskite yellow-phase degradation with dual additives
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Rice University chemical engineers have developed a method to make perovskite-based photovoltaics more durable by driving the material directly into its desirable black crystal phase while making it ... more


FROTH AND BUBBLE
Air Pollution in Infancy Linked to Higher Rates of Respiratory Infections
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Ambient air pollution in the first year of life is associated with a greater burden of respiratory infections, according to preliminary findings from the Immune Development in Early Life (IDEaL) Rom ... more

SOLAR DAILY
Chiba team models energy alignment for perovskite solar cells
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Researchers at Chiba University have developed the first universal model for energy level alignment at electrode, hole-collecting monolayer, and perovskite interfaces in solar cells, establishing a ... more

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SOLAR DAILY
UK team finds intermediate materials for solar fuels, batteries
London (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Researchers have identified previously unknown materials, including a new form of a widely studied clean-energy material, by carefully controlling and tracking how molecular precursors break down du ... more

CHIP TECH
AI-Driven Design Tools Unlock New Capabilities in Flat Optical Devices
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026

Researchers at Korea University have published a comprehensive review documenting how artificial intelligence is overcoming the core design barriers that have limited the practical deployment of met ... more


EARTH OBSERVATION
Geomagnetic Reversal Trigger Mechanism Study Finds Dipole Field Bi-Stability in Dynamo Simulations
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 01, 2026

A team at Japan's National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, has published new magnetohydrodynamic simulation results demonstrating that ... more

ENERGY TECH
Warwick Researchers Find Hidden Intermediate Materials With Uses in Solar Fuels and Batteries
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) May 04, 2026

Chemists at the University of Warwick have identified a series of previously unknown materials formed during the heating of molecular precursors, including a new structural form of bismuth vanadate, ... more

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BIO FUEL
Iron and UV light drive simple hydrogen production from alcohol
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 04, 2026

Researchers at Kyushu University have reported a simple way to generate hydrogen gas by mixing methanol, sodium hydroxide, and iron ions, then exposing the solution to ultraviolet light. The team sa ... more

NANO TECH
Ultra-Thin Dual-Mode Shielding Film Blocks Electromagnetic Waves and Neutron Radiation Simultaneously
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 01, 2026

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a composite shielding material that simultaneously blocks both electromagnetic waves and neutron radiation within a ... more


TECH SPACE
Texas A and M Detonation Lab Bridges Explosive Physics From Industrial Safety to Dying Stars
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2026

Scientists at Texas A and M University have officially opened the world's largest academic controlled-explosions laboratory, the Detonation Research Test Facility (DRTF), on the Texas A and M-RELLIS ... more

CIVIL NUCLEAR
DOME test bed opens at Idaho lab to host privately built advanced reactors
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2026

The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has declared the Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments test bed, known as DOME, open for business, marking a milestone for the ... more

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CIVIL NUCLEAR
Safety panel flags seismic risks at Nevada nuclear weapons lab
London, United Kingdom (SPX) Apr 30, 2026

The underground Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation, or PULSE, at the Nevada National Security Site contains numerous mapped faults whose seismic behavior remains poorly ... more

SOLAR DAILY
Electron Microscopy Alone Can Now Fully Characterize Organic Solar Cells
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 30, 2026

Using three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED), researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat (FAU) Erlangen-Nurnberg have demonstrated that electrons can provide the averaged structural info ... more


SOLAR DAILY
Sensor-Free Prediction Method Guards Stirling Generators Against Piston Overshoot Damage
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 30, 2026

Researchers have developed a fast prediction and suppression method for transient piston displacement overshoot in free piston Stirling generators, addressing a fault condition that can quickly esca ... more

SOLAR DAILY
Robotic AI System Runs 50000 Perovskite Solar Cell Experiments and Hits 27 Percent Efficiency
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 30, 2026

Perovskite solar cells have emerged as one of the most promising next-generation photovoltaic technologies, but their development still depends heavily on time-consuming trial-and-error synthesis an ... more

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SOLAR DAILY
Molecular Lock Design Pushes Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency Past 26 Percent
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 30, 2026

Inverted perovskite solar cells are widely considered the future of next-generation photovoltaics due to their high efficiency, low cost, and ease of manufacturing. A collaborative research team fro ... more

SOLAR DAILY
AI Forecasting Method Lifts Solar Output by Optimizing Panel Tilt Angles
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2026

Researchers have developed a feature selection-based solar irradiance forecasting method to improve the operation of stand-alone photovoltaic systems. The approach uses a bidirectional long short-te ... more


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