Organic Solar Cell Splits Water at a Record 7.9% Efficiency

A solar cell that makes hydrogen without a power supply Hydrogen made from water and sunlight is one of the cleanest fuels on paper, but most designs still lean on an outside electrical boost. According to a report by Interesting Engineering, a team at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has built an organic-semiconductor device that splits water entirely on its own, and set an efficiency record for its class while doing it. The headline number is a 7.9% sol...
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Unique brain ‘Fingerprint’ offers new method of identification.

Neurologists at Yale University have discovered that it is possible to identify an individual's unique identity by mapping brain activity. Unlike a fingerprint, which is based on the physical structure of a finger or thumb, a brain profile is based on brain activity, which is similarly unique. The research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, used data obtained through functional MRI (fMRI) scans to build an individual's connectivity profile. Neuroscientists have found that they can...
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