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Static electricity could remove dust from desert ... To change this, Varanasi’s team added a 5-nanometre layer of transparent zinc oxide and aluminium to a solar panel’s surface.

The resulting glass is completely clear at first, but then develops a blue tint as it generates up to 130mW of electricity per ... just translucent instead of transparent. The next step: figuring ...

New research shows that ticks can use static electricity to latch onto people or animals. The study in the journal Current Biology says the static charge given off by potential hosts can attract ...

Scientists at UCLA have invented a thin, transparent solar cell that can turn the energy of the sun into electricity, while still allowing visible light to stream through it. “If you take a ...