April 2025 – Page 2 – Our Fragile Earth

SUPERIOR SOLAR CELLS

Perovskite solar cells have offered rapid improvements in efficiency and potential for low-cost manufacturing but still suffer from energy losses[…]

Australia has experienced a 37% increase in health-damaging heat waves over the past 20 years. Now it has the second-highest[…]

Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for overheating or catching fire. A groundbreaking computational model has shown metallic lithium builds up on[…]

A 4°C rise in global temperatures would cut world GDP by around 40% by 2100–a stark increase from previous estimates[…]

Using seawater, electricity and carbon dioxide, a new carbon-negative building material has been developed that locks away CO2 permanently and[…]

As Earth keeps warming, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. In the last three decades, over three-fourths[…]