A new technique which uses light like a needle to thread long chains of particles could help bring sci-fi concepts such as cloaking devices one step closer to reality. A new method of buildi... Read more
The process can handle nearly any type of biomass Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies... Read more
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Carnegie Mellon University have introduced a unique micro-robotic technique to assemble the components of complex materials, the f... Read more
Antifreeze proteins from fish living in icy seas have inspired a new way to freeze blood which could one day increase the precious stocks available for medical procedures. University of Warw... Read more
Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally that a boron-based competitor to graphene is a very real possibility. Graphene, a sheet of carbon one atom thick, may soon have a... 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
“These new thin-film transistors adhere to a wide range of surfaces and adapt perfectly” Researchers at ETH are developing electronic components that are thinner and more flexible than befor... Read more
“This is a quite remarkable spatial resolution.” Researchers have created tiny holograms using a “metasurface” capable of the ultra-efficient control of light, repres... Read more
Any fears of impending mind control are, at a minimum, premature, said Greely A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting i... Read more
Removing one of the tiniest organs in the body has shown to provide effective treatment for high blood pressure. The discovery, made by University of Bristol researchers and published in Nat... Read more
A surprising low-tech tool—Scotch Magic tape—was one of the keys to the discovery An international group of researchers from the University of Minnesota, Argonne National Laboratory and Seou... Read more
When a beating heart slips into an irregular, life-threatening rhythm, the treatment is well known: deliver a burst of electric current from a pacemaker or defibrillator. But because the ele... Read more
Affordable and scalable process of a carbon nanotube-based catalyst outperforming platinum for electric-automobiles Korean researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology... Read more
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why. In 2010, in the journal Nature, a pair of physicists at the Santa Fe Instit... Read more
“These described methods allow us to do this in two to three hours, a vast improvement over standard culturing practice, which can take as much as two weeks to provide a diagnosis.... Read more
