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An international team of scientists has created a new type of solar flow battery that’s efficient and long-lasting. The device is made up of a silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell, paired with a redox flow battery, with organic chemical electrolytes.

A new study looking at nearly four decades of data has shown that in almost every part of the world where hurricanes form, their strongest winds are getting even stronger, with global warming thought to be a key contributing factor.

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) have been investigating ways of nursing concussed brain cells back to healthy function, and have found that cooling them can protect them from damage and allow them to operate as normal.

University of Wisconson, Madison researchers have found a kind of "consciousness switch" in a specific area of the brain. When they hit this spot with electrical stimulation, monkeys immediately woke up from an anesthetized state.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin have published a new study describing a relationship between regular aerobic exercise and improved cognitive function, leading to a reduced vulnerability to Alzheimer’s among high-risk adults.

The best way to fight off cancer might be to strengthen the body’s immune system to help identify and kill tumors. This is known as immunotherapy. Now researchers have developed artificial nanoparticles that should be cheaper and easier to produce.

Although conditions such as epilepsy can be treated via nerve-stimulating electrodes, those electrodes are stiff, costly and require surgery to implant. Scientists have now created an alternative, however, in the form of soft, injectable electrodes.

A prototype har-growth-stimulating device is self-powered and unobtrusive enough to hypothetically fit under a baseball cap.

Scientists are working on a new process to produce a pair of radioisotopes of the element scandium (Sc).

Compasses point north – that’s a pretty constant fact of life. But it hasn’t always been the case, as the north and south poles flip on a semi-regularly basis. Exactly how long this process takes has been up for debate, and now a new study suggests it happens far more slowly than previously thought.

When scientists need to learn about something, recreating it in the lab is often one of the best ways – and now that even applies to the Sun itself. Physicists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have built a mini-Sun in the lab, and used it to probe the secrets of the real thing.

​Although biometric face-recognition security tech is now becoming quite common on devices such as smartphones, it does still require a lot of processing power. In the not-too-distant future, however, the same purpose could be served by an integrated piece of analog glass.