Future Battlefields With Deflector Shields And Laser Weapons

Future Battlefields With Deflector Shields And Laser Weapons

  Within the next fifty years, scientists at BAE Systems believe that battlefield commanders could deploy a new type of directed energy laser and lens system, called a Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens which is capable of enhancing commanders’ [...]
Mini-Camera Features Lens Similar To Insect Eyes

Mini-Camera Features Lens Similar To Insect Eyes

Fraunhofer researchers have developed a process enabling the production of a two millimeter flat camera. Similar to the eyes of insects, its lens is partitioned into 135 tiny facets. Following nature‘s model, the researchers have named their [...]
Researchers Discover Self-Assembling 2D And 3D Materials

Researchers Discover Self-Assembling 2D And 3D Materials

Self-assembly of matter is one of the fundamental principles of nature, directing the growth of larger ordered and functional systems from smaller building blocks. Self-assembly can be observed in all length scales from molecules to galaxies. Now, [...]
Divide And Conquer Pattern Searching

Divide And Conquer Pattern Searching

The Daily Journalist. A new data-mining strategy that offers unprecedented pattern search speed could glean new insights from massive datasets. Searching for recurring patterns in network systems has become a fundamental part of research [...]
Riverless PLatoons: Autonomous Trucks Travelling In Packs Could Save Time And Fuel

Riverless PLatoons: Autonomous Trucks Travelling In Packs Could Save Time And Fuel

As driverless cars merge into our transportation system in the coming years, some researchers believe autonomous vehicles may save fuel by trailing each other in large platoons. Like birds and fighter jets flying in formation, or bikers and [...]
Tractor Beam Traps Bacteria

Tractor Beam Traps Bacteria

Up to now, if scientists wanted to study blood cells, algae, or bacteria under the microscope, they had to mount these cells on a substrate such as a glass slide. Physicists at Bielefeld and Frankfurt Universities have developed a method [...]
Painless Micro-Needle Patch Could Replace Needles

Painless Micro-Needle Patch Could Replace Needles

It’s only a matter of time before drugs are administered via patches with painless microneedles instead of unpleasant injections. But designers need to balance the need for flexible, comfortable-to-wear material with effective microneedle [...]
Chip Will Offer Clear View Of Alien Planets

Chip Will Offer Clear View Of Alien Planets

Scientists have developed a new optical chip for a telescope that enables astronomers to have a clear view of alien planets that may support life. Seeing a planet outside the solar system which is close to its host sun, similar to Earth, [...]
Batteries Many Times More Powerful

Batteries Many Times More Powerful

Major scientific breakthrough research has discovered new materials offering an alternative to battery power and proven to be between 1,000-10,000 times more powerful than the existing battery alternative – a supercapacitor. The new [...]
Protein Feed And Bioplastic From Farm Biogas, Landfills Or Wastewater

Protein Feed And Bioplastic From Farm Biogas, Landfills Or Wastewater

VTT has developed a solution for converting even small sources of methane-rich biogas into raw materials for animal feed or bioplastic on farms, landfills and wastewater treatment plants. This emission-reducing solution is based on the [...]
Refinery In A Container Produces Liquid Fuels From Air, Water And Sunlight

Refinery In A Container Produces Liquid Fuels From Air, Water And Sunlight

Compact refineries may one day produce a variety of vehicle fuels as well as chemicals from air, water and sunlight. The Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland are building a unique demo [...]
Nanobionic Spinach Plants Detect Explosives, Communicate With Humans Wireless

Nanobionic Spinach Plants Detect Explosives, Communicate With Humans Wireless

The Daily Journalist.   Spinach is no longer just a superfood: By embedding leaves with carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to [...]
Game Theory: Gears Of The Modern World Chaos

Game Theory: Gears Of The Modern World Chaos

  The Daily Journalist. Game theory has long been used to apply mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers. However, our world has evolved from great power conflicts to one where many [...]
Simbot: Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Has Only Two Moving Parts

Simbot: Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Has Only Two Moving Parts

More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ball. The latest version, called SIMbot, has an equally elegant motor with just [...]
Wireless Alternative To Drugs: Treatment for Diabetes, High Blood Pressure or Parkinson's

Wireless Alternative To Drugs: Treatment for Diabetes, High Blood Pressure or Parkinson’s

Unlike drugs, active implants such as electroceuticals act locally, have fewer side effects and function directly through electrical signals, much like the body itself.  Fraunhofer researchershave developed a new technology platform that [...]
Fluid-Glass: Solar Powered Water Water-Filled Windows Offer Heating And Cooling

Fluid-Glass: Solar Powered Water Water-Filled Windows Offer Heating And Cooling

The Daily Journalist. EU researchers say we could be doing so much more with our windows. We could use them to collect solar energy? EU-funded researchers are developing an innovative solution to do just that. Their concept is based on thin [...]
Prototype System Can Read Closed Books

Prototype System Can Read Closed Books

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books. In the latest issue of Nature Communications, the researchers describe a prototype of the system, which [...]
Swarm of robots learns to work together without colliding

Swarm of robots learns to work together without colliding

When roboticists create behaviors for teams of robots, they first build algorithms that focus on the intended task. Then they wrap safety behaviors around those primary algorithms to keep the machines from running into each other. Each robot [...]
Computer clothing?

Computer clothing?

Computers are important tools in everyday life, whether as PC or smartphone. In the future, they will increasingly be incorporated in everyday objects and support users wearing the smart watches, display goggles, sensor clothing, among other [...]
Atomic gyroscope design enables navigation by dead reckoning

Atomic gyroscope design enables navigation by dead reckoning

By Alton Parrish.   Shrink rays may exist only in science fiction, but similar effects are at work in the real world at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). After successfully miniaturizing both clocks and magnetometers [...]