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Recent scientific advances Artificial leaves to capture sunlight Using one’s car through an artificial leaf: this progress would be incredible ! Antonio REGALADO is a science journalist who reports the research of N. Lewis and those of many scientific laboratories. They have been able to demonstrate that the sun could produce right away chemical fuel. Indeed, the newspaper article pourlascience.fr explains that thanks to the inventions of scientists, artificial leaves, like green plants, would capture the sun rays, which we could use to fuel our cars and power our electric plants. Despite these advanced researches, artificial leaves have not yet been realized. Solar panels in space? Elodie. The scientific breakthrough that allows to believe it The Huffington Post newspaper published on March 13, 2015 an article (Solar Panels in space? The scientific breakthrough thatallows to believe it) written by Manon Gabriel telling about a scientific breakthrough not quite visible. This article is about an invention which could revolutionize the world as it could solve energy shortageproblems. Indeed, this invention is clean and inexhaustible. Since 1980 Japan dreams of producing electricity in interstellar level and then send it to the earth. Their first research began in 1998. This ambitious project was launched in 2009. It consists in sending large photovoltaic panels in space. With a capacity ten times bigger than it is now, such devices will convert the energy of sunlight into electricity. This electric current transformed into an energy flow would then be transmitted by laser or micro-wave beam to the Earth where it would be picked up by a giant satellite dish to be converted into electricity. Christopher.