Storage

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method of storing and handling valuable biological materials that removes the limitations of refrigerated storage. The novel method has potential applications in healthcare and scientific research.

Energy prices around the world have been rising alarmingly since 2021. While some have shared advice on how to heat the person rather than the home, researchers at KTH are working on a building material that could help regulate indoor temperatures.

Human blood can typically only be stored for six weeks. It also needs to be refrigerated, which may be challenging in poor countries or remote locations. A new study, though, could lead to a method of drying blood for long-term storage.

Tesla has reached an agreement to buy solar power outfit SolarCity for US$2.6 billion, as it had announced was its intention back in June. The companies already have close links and the recently unveiled Part Deux of Tesla's Master Plan had further indicated a desire for greater integration.

Dubbed the Powerwall, Tesla has unveiled a home stationary battery that offers 10 kWh of storage capacity for the relatively modest price of US$3,500. A smaller unit is also available at 7 kWh for $3,000, and homeowners can stack multiple units if needed.

Researchers have recorded the world's first optically encoded audio onto a plasmonic film substrate the size of human hair that has a capacity over five-and-a-half thousand times greater than conventional analog magnetic recording media.

An international team of scientists has made a breakthrough in the magnetic manipulation of nanoparticles that could lead to a big boost for small scale digital storage in portable devices.

Norwegian researchers have filed a patent to store potential energy at the bottom of the sea.

Powerful microbatteries developed at the University of Illinois combine the energy capacity of lithium batteries and the power delivery of a supercapacitor.

Northwestern University researchers have broken a world record in the creation of two new synthetic materials which have the greatest amount of surface areas reported to date.

A new study has estimated how much information there is in the world in terms of how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit.