Researchers at Barcelona-based photonics research institute ICFO have enhanced the performance of an organic solar cell by optimizing the fluorescence quantum yield (FQY) – that is, by favoring light ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Tea bags could release billions of microplastic ...

In recent years, the world’s most advanced scientific community has made attempts to determine exactly how many watts of sun one building (or device) can withstand. Science provides some examples of ...

Adding gold to solar panels to lower their cost may sound counterintuitive, but that is the clever idea behind new research from Portugal. Thanks to a nanostructured mirror, scientists have managed to ...

Alex Yampolsky, PharmD, is a pediatric clinical pharmacist at Elizabeth Seton Children’s center where he optimizes the comfort and care of his patients. Calcium and magnesium can block each other's ...