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Scientists Discover a New Ladybird Species — On a Tree Outside Their Own Lab

Researchers combing 1,700 specimens across Japan turned up a previously unknown ladybird beetle — living, all along, on a pine tree beside their own university building in Fukuoka.

Technology

New Solid Material Turns Ordinary Sunlight Into Higher-Energy UV Light

A Kyushu University team built a stable solid material that fuses two visible photons into one ultraviolet photon — a long-sought breakthrough that could power cleaner air purification and solar chemistry.

Science

Solar Cells Just Hit 130% Efficiency — Breaking a Long-Standing Limit

Scientists in Japan and Germany used a molybdenum "spin-flip" emitter to harvest extra energy from sunlight through singlet fission, reaching a quantum yield of about 130% — past the long-standing Shockley-Queisser ceiling.

Technology

Scientists Shatter the Solar Cell Efficiency Ceiling with a 130% Quantum Yield

A team from Kyushu University and Johannes Gutenberg University achieved what was long thought impossible — extracting more energy carriers from sunlight than photons absorbed.