This invention could give new meaning to the term “bad breath!” It’s the Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer, and when you blow into it, you get tested for a bio... Read more
Around the world, scientists have been working on ways of replacing the heart tissue that dies when a heart attack occurs. These efforts have resulted in heart “patches” that are... Read more
New Conducting Properties Discovered in Bacteria-Produced Wires The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens t... Read more
Hybrid Energy Storage Device Is as Small as It Can Possibly Get The world at large runs on lithium ion batteries. New research at Rice University shows that tiny worlds may soon do the same.... Read more
Scientists are reporting a key advance toward the long-awaited era of “single-molecule electronics,” when common electronic circuits in computers, smart phones, audio players, an... Read more
For the past several years, scientists from around the world have been engaged in the development of nanogenerators – tiny piezoelectric devices capable of generating electricity by harnessi... Read more
Nanowire Tiles Can Perform Arithmetic and Logical Functions Engineers and scientists coll The groundbreaking prototype computer system, described in a paper appearing in the journalNature, r... Read more
Image via Wikipedia European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire ‘growing’ technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising ne... Read more
Stretchability is not something you’d think of as synonymous with electronics. For this very reason the realm of wearable electronic devices has been limited to devices on clothes with... Read more
A team of scientists at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland has created what they claim is the world’s first junctionless transistor. The invention represents a breakthroug... Read more
Scientists have discovered that a moving pulse of heat traveling along the miniscule wires known as carbon nanotubes can cause powerful waves of energy. These “thermopower waves”... Read more