Technology Review AudioDizer Podcast - Business Top Stories

Thin-Film Solar with High Efficiency

Katherine Bourzac — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Solexant is printing inorganic solar cells with nanomaterials.

Stealthy Nanoparticles Attack Cancer Cells

Emily Singer — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Drugs embedded in special polymers can more effectively shrink tumors.

Ultracapacitor Startup Gets a Big Boost

Erika Jonietz — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An energy storage startup gets new government funding.

High-Energy Batteries Coming to Market

Kevin Bullis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Rechargeable zinc-air batteries can store three times the energy of a lithium-ion battery.

Etching Out Organic Displays

Katherine Bourzac — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Company will sell materials for making organic electronics using silicon manufacturing infrastructure.

Blood Test Offers More Accurate Picture of Health

Katherine Bourzac — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A Seattle company is developing rapid tests for thousands of proteins.

Commercializing Garbage to Ethanol

Kevin Bullis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Startup Coskata has opened a "semi-commercial" ethanol plant to demonstrate its technology.

Clean Tech's Hot New Tool

Phil McKenna — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Smaller and more practical electron-beam emitters could save millions of tons of C02 emissions.

Biofuel from Sewage

Jennifer Chu — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Qteros forms a partnership to use sewage as a feedstock for making ethanol.

Is China Beating the U.S. in Clean Tech?

Kevin Bullis — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The president of NRDC points to a growing investment by China in energy technologies.

GE's Risky Energy Research

Kevin Bullis — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Michael Idelchik, VP of Advanced Technologies, discusses energy research.

Greener Computing in the Cloud

David Talbot — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Custom datacenters can help lower energy consumption, experts say.

Toward a Universal Flu Vaccine

Lauren Gravitz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A company is preparing human trials of a DNA-based, universal influenza vaccine.

Advanced Solar Panels Coming to Market

Kevin Bullis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Nanosolar's new factory could help lower the price of solar power, if the market cooperates.

The New Faces of Android

Erica Naone — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Several new devices will test the appeal of Google's mobile platform.

NASA's Plans Lack the Cash

Brittany Sauser — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Can the commercial sector rescue the U.S. human spaceflight program?

An Advert for In-Game Violence

Andrew Schrock — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Research finds ads embedded in violent games to be more memorable.

Decoding the Profit Gene

David Ewing Duncan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Is the last pure genomics company from the 1990s about to go bust?

Energy-Aware Internet Routing

Will Knight — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Software that tracks electricity prices could slash energy costs for big online businesses.

Bringing Graphene to Market

Katherine Bourzac — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A startup's conductive graphene inks can be used to print RFID antennas