Gold Makes World’s Tiniest Engine, A Basis for Future Nano-Machines
By Alton Parrish.
Researchers have developed the world’s tiniest engine – just a few billionths of a meter in size – which uses light to power itself. The nanoscale engine, developed by researchers at the University [...]
Cheaper, More Reliable Solar Power with New World Record for Polymer Solar Cells
By alton Parrish.
Polymer solar cells can be even cheaper and more reliable thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Linköping University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This work is about avoiding costly and unstable [...]
Lock-Pick Malware Hacks Smart Home Systems, Gets the PIN Code for the Front Door and More
By Alton Parrish.
Smart homes may not be so smart yet.
Cybersecurity researchers at the University of Michigan were able to hack into the leading “smart home” automation system and essentially get the PIN code to a home’s [...]
Robots Successfully Tend Tree Nursery
By Alton Parrish.
Very specific conditions are needed for a tiny seed to grow into a mighty tree. Providing these conditions helps to preserve biodiversity, as plants produced from cuttings are essentially clones. EU-funded researchers [...]
Smart Hand: Using Your Skin as a Touch Screen:
By Alton Parrish.
Using your skin as a touchscreen has been brought a step closer after UK scientists successfully created tactile sensations on the palm using ultrasound sent through the hand.
The University of Sussex-led study [...]
New 5D Storage Can Store 360 Terabytes of Data on Tiny Disc for Billions of Years
By Alton Parrish.
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
Using nanostructured glass, scientists [...]
A Battery You Never Have To Change
By Alton Parrish.
University of California, Irvine researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to a battery that would never require replacement. [...]
Making Movies of Electrons in Motion Soon Possible
By Alton Parrish.
With the aid of terahertz radiation, Munich physicists have developed a method for generating and controlling ultrashort electron pulses. With further improvements, this technique should be capable of capturing [...]
It Cooks and Drives: Electric Restaurant Car Powered by the Sun Coming
By Alton Parrish.
Electric vehicles are a reality, and scientists are now looking ahead. They are exploring new frontiers to make them safer, more reliable, more autonomous and more affordable. European researchers are [...]
New Graphene Composites Fit for 3D Printing, Consumer Electronics and Automotive Uses
By Alton Parrish.
EU researchers have created and tested a range of new polymer composites based on graphene and speciality graphites. They are expected to find early application in the consumer electronics and automotive industries.
Graphene [...]
Atomically Thin Sensor Detects Harmful Air Pollution in the Home
By Alton Parrish.
Scientists from the University of Southampton, in partnership with the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), have developed a graphene-based sensor and switch that can detect harmful [...]
Catching More Rays with Quantum Dots and Organic Molecules for More Solar Power
By Alton Parrish.
Combining quantum dots and organic molecules can enable solar cells to capture more of the sun’s light.
Light from the sun is our most abundant source of renewable energy, and learning how best to harvest this [...]
Cleaning Air with Light Proven Uniquely Versatile
By Alton Parrish.
A novel invention using light to remove air pollution has proven to be more versatile than any competing systems. It eliminates fumes as chemically diverse as odorous sulfur compounds and health hazardous hydrocarbons [...]
New Bio-x Technique Can Look Under Your Skin In 3D ; See What They Can See In Great Detail
By Alton Parrish.
A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists developed the first technique for viewing cells and tissues in 3 dimensions under the skin — the work could improve diagnosis and treatment for some forms of cancer [...]
Global Control Signal Discovered
By Alton Parrish.
An electrical and systems engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has designed a method that, figuratively, forces a leopard to change its spots.
Jr-Shin Li, the Das Family Distinguished Career Development [...]
Radar Invisibility Cloak: Engineers Develop Flexible Skin That Traps Radar Waves
By Alton Parrish.
Iowa State University engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable “meta-skin” that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of radar.
The meta-skin [...]
Virtual Time Machine of Earth’s Geology Lets You Explore More Than A Billion Years into the Past
By Alton Parrish.
How did Madagascar once slot next to India? Where was Australia a billion years ago?
Cloud-based virtual globes developed by a team led by University of Sydney geologists mean anyone with a smartphone, laptop [...]
Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts Found To Repeat
By Alton Parrish.
Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The findings indicate that these “fast [...]
New 5D storage can store 360 terrabytes of data on tiny disc for billions of years
By University of Southampton.
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
Using nanostructured glass, scientists [...]
Robots successfully tend tree nursery
Alton Parrish.
Very specific conditions are needed for a tiny seed to grow into a mighty tree. Providing these conditions helps to preserve biodiversity, as plants produced from cuttings are essentially clones. EU-funded researchers have [...]