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If you haven’t already heard of antiferromagnetic spintronics it won’t be long before you do. This relatively unused class of magnetic materials could be about to transform our digital lives. They have the potential to make our devices smaller, faster, more robust and increase their energy efficiency. Physicists at The University of Nottingham, working in

A printer would lay a base layer of pasta or dough and fill it with seeds, spores, or yeast. Within five days, the mushrooms and plants inside would grow into a tasty, locally grown snack. An average processed snack travels 1,300 miles to the grocery store. But the snack of the future may be hyper-local:

Image via Wikipedia California-based manufacturer of low-cost solar materials, Innovalight, has achieved record of 19 percent conversion efficiency for its silicon ink-based solar cells. The conversion efficiency of a solar cell is the proportion of sunlight energy that a cell converts to electrical energy. Although conversion efficiency of greater than 40% has been achieved in

Matrox Graphics’ new Extio F2408 KVM Extension Solution offers a new capability we feel certain will find many new uses. It enables a multiple display configuration of up to eight 1920×1200 screens to be separated from the host PC by up to a kilometer (~1100 yards) of fiber-optic cable, yet still produce the same flawless

Four years ago, Canadian electronics engineering technologist Nap Pepin decided to buy a kit for a BugE electric vehicle. Not content with its out-of-the-box performance, he swapped in a lithium battery pack, and his own custom battery management system. This boosted its top speed from 80 km/h (50 mph) to 130 km/h (80 mph), and

Smart camera can think about what the pictures signify so the rover can decide on its own whether to keep exploring a particular site, or move on Smart as the Mars Curiosity mission has been about landing and finding its own way on a distant world, the rover is pretty brainless when it comes to

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an effective treatment for easily accessible tumors such as oral and skin cancer But the procedure, which uses lasers to activate special drugs called photosensitizing agents, isn’t adept at fighting cancer deep inside the body. Thankfully, that’s changing due to new technology that could bring PDT into areas of the body

Firing a rifle at a Longbow Apache Attack helicopter in the hope of claiming a US$8 million scalp with a 50 cent bullet might not be a very good idea for too much longer – unless you like keeping company with a Hellfire missile. The rapid evolution of military weaponry is a fascinating, if not

Like a cowboy at a rodeo, NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), has triumphantly raised its “arm” and unfurled a huge golden “lasso” (antenna) that it will soon spin up to rope the best soil moisture maps ever obtained from space. Launched Jan. 31 from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on