Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Green, leafy spinach may soon power more than Popeye's biceps

"Baldo and other researchers from MIT, the University of Tennessee and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, including electrical and biomedical engineers, nanotechnology experts and biologists, collaborated on the world's first solid-state photosynthetic solar cell. The work was reported in NanoLetters, a publication of the American Chemical Society."

Yes, I know this one is making the rounds on the "weird news" circuit. But I couldn't resist.

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