Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

The LED is based off of two-dimensional, flexible semiconductors, making it possible to stack or use in much smaller and more diverse applications than current technology allows. Most modern electronics, from flat-screen TVs and smartphones to wearable technologies and computer monitors, use tiny light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. These LEDs are based off of semiconductors that

Do you always get popcorn at the movies? Or snack while you’re on the couch watching television? A new paper by USC researchers reveals why bad eating habits persist even when the food we’re eating doesn’t taste good. The study also reveals the surprisingly simple ways we can counter our habits to gain control over

New Computer-Based Technique Ages Photographic Images of People’s Faces A Concordia graduate student has designed a promising computer program that could serve as a new tool in missing-child investigations and matters of national security. Khoa Luu has developed a more effective computer-based technique to age photographic images of people’s faces — an advance that could

Interdisciplinary approach makes linking biological materials and electronic devices possible One of the biggest challenges in cognitive or rehabilitation neurosciences is the ability to design a functional hybrid system that can connect and exchange information between biological systems, like neurons in the brain, and human-made electronic devices. A large multidisciplinary effort of researchers in Italy

Synopsis: “Mood ring materials” could play an important role in minimizing and mitigating damage to the nation’s failing infrastructure. That is where “Mood ring materials’ comes in. Sprinkle a pixie dust of nanoparticles into a batch of clear polymer resin and you get”a smart material that changes color when it is damaged or about to

Image via Wikipedia The Pentagon ramps up efforts to field directed-energy beam weapons for land, air and sea After more than a century of popular sci-fi fantasies that feature deadly energy weapons, including War of the Worlds, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Star Trek and Star Wars, it looks like the ray gun has finally arrived

Serendipitous discovery could increase efficiency in jet engines, reduce plane noise, more A group of new smart materials discovered by researchers at Texas A&M University and their colleagues has the potential to significantly improve the efficiency of fuel burn in jet engines, cutting the cost of flying. The materials, which could also reduce airplane noise