Infrared sensors can be employed in a wide range of applications, such as driver assistance systems for vehicles or thermography for buildings. A new camera is providing a test bed fo... Read more
The THz generation can be tailored simply by tuning the size of the meta-atoms in the metamaterial Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have demonstrated broad... Read more
Combustion engines runs needlessly about 30 percent of the time With its new start-stop coasting function, Bosch enables drivers of vehicles with combustion engines to travel in zero-emissio... Read more
By 2017, all of that year’s end-of-life refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones, computers, and other electrical and electronic products could fill a line of 40-ton trucks around three qua... Read more
More than two-thirds of the energy from primary sources like oil and gas utilized worldwide today is lost through waste heat. Half-Heusler compounds are especially suited for manufacturing t... Read more
The overall design resembles a quadcopter E-volo recently celebrated the maiden launch of its electric two-passenger, 18-rotor VC200 “Volocopter,” touting the vehicle’s saf... Read more
BASF and Bayer expect to roll out new processes to use waste CO2 to make plastics, additives, fuels and other materials in an energy-efficient and cost-effective way Reusing the major greenh... Read more
Rubber can be extracted from the juice of the dandelion. Yet the decisive breakthrough to industrial manufacturing is proving to be a tough step. Working jointly with industry and science, t... Read more
“The discovery of this superhard superconductor demonstrates that new compounds can be brought into existence by revisiting seemingly well-studied systems,” A Binghamton University scientist... Read more
For hundreds of years, optical devices like telescopes and microscopes have relied on solid lenses that slide up and down to magnify and to focus. To tune how much light is received, convent... Read more
An application that takes augmented reality into the operating room to assist doctors with complex procedures Tablets and smartphones have recently found a wide range of uses in the healthca... Read more
“We’ve just created a cost-effective, highly stable, and highly efficient solar fuel device.” Using a simple solar cell and a photo anode made of a metal oxide, HZB and TU Delft scien... Read more
Now that you can be scanned and 3D-printed in miniature form, two-dimensional portraits seem so last century. Of course, this novelty is way more expensive than a photograph, but now a compa... Read more
Falling costs are making fuel-cell vehicles look like a plausible alternative to conventional cars. Hydrogen-powered vehicles have been out of the spotlight for years, but they’re about to m... Read more
A brake light warning of slowing traffic ahead could speed up reactions for drivers several cars behind a braking vehicle. When a driver hits the brakes, the cars following behind may not se... Read more
