Helmut Schmidt University

Spray-coated mandarin oranges and strawberries show significantly-prolonged post-harvest shelf life The edible coating on produce has drawn a great deal of attention in the food and agricultural industry. It could not only prolong postharvest shelf life of produce against external changes in the environment but also provide additional nutrients to be useful for human health.

Check it out in the video by clicking “Read more . . . ” Many see small quadrocopters as the future of surveillance, aerial photography, warfare and even construction, but a new demonstration involving a world record-setting swarm of 50 quadrocopters has shown the aircraft can also pull off some pretty impressive dance moves. Outdoing the

Silicon anodes could store 10 times more charge than the graphite anodes in today’s rechargeable lithium-ion batteries An electrode designed like a pomegranate – with silicon nanoparticles clustered like seeds in a tough carbon rind – overcomes several remaining obstacles to using silicon for a new generation of lithium-ion batteries, say its inventors at Stanford

Computer design meets potions class: A little of vial 1 and a little of vial 2 yield six-bit computations encoded in DNA Computer scientists at Caltech have designed DNA molecules that can carry out reprogrammable computations, for the first time creating so-called algorithmic self-assembly in which the same “hardware” can be configured to run different

So where have we seen this before? Science fiction may well become reality with the development of a real life Iron Man suit that would allow astronauts or extreme thrill seekers to space dive from up to 62 miles (100 km) above the Earth‘s surface at the very edge of space, and safely land using thruster

If you’re into writing the “old-fashioned” way – that is with a pen and paper – then you’re probably already acquainted with Sharpie, the company that brought us those markers and pens that come in all shapes, colors and sizes. Their latest offering – called the Sharpie Liquid Pencil – is really quite unique. It

Dramatically increasing the computer’s power and memory The merging of two technologies under development — plasmonics and nanophotonics — is promising the emergence of new “quantum information systems” far more powerful than today’s computers. The technology hinges on using single photons — the tiny particles that make up light — for switching and routing in

The increasing ubiquity of wearables and the Internet of Things has rightly prompted concerns over the privacy of personal data and establishing boundaries for being tracked. Hitachi, the Japanese electronics company, is targeting corporations with a new device that is designed to optimize for efficiency in the workplace through data gathering. The Hitachi Business Microscope looks like