Day 1,812: perovskite

Its perovskite-based solar panels will work just as well in Gabon as in the Gobi desert.

How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?

Artwork of the day 
Portrait of Vasily Alekseevich Perovsky
Orest Kiprensky
Original Title: Портрет В.А.Перовского
Date: 1809
Style: Romanticism
Genre: portrait
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 112 x 83 cm

Word of the day 
perovskite: a yellow, brown, or grayish-black mineral consisting of an oxide of calcium and titanium and sometimes containing rare earth elements

Quote of the day
“Every previous outbreak had happened in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Uganda. Those countries were 2,000 miles away from Guinea, a virtual world apart.”

― Reid Wilson, Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak