Tag: Solar panel

  • Science & Tech

    New species in an urban ecosystem (read: solar panel)

    A new species of bacteria, one that makes its home on the relatively hot and dry surface of a solar panel, was discovered recently at the Arnold Arboretum, offering a lesson that nature’s reach extends even to the artificial.

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    Researchers getting samples off solar panels.
  • Science & Tech

    Electrical conductor sparks interest

    Harvard and Stanford chemists have created and purified an organic semiconductor with excellent electrical properties, simultaneously confirming a screening process being used to find new photovoltaic materials.

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