Wind and Solar Power Could Generate Most But Not All of the Electricity in the USA
Wind and solar power could generate most but not all electricity in the United States, according to an analysis of 36 years of weather data…
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Cubic Crystal Layer Improves Lithium Ion Battery Efficiency
Researchers have developed a new way to improve lithium ion battery efficiency. Through the growth of a cubic crystal layer, the scientists have created a…
Physicists Create a Topological Superconductor for Quantum Computing
With their insensitivity to decoherence what are known as Majorana particles could become stable building blocks of a quantum computer. The problem is that they…
New Sensor Reveals Lithium-Ion Batteries Can Safely Charge 5 Times Faster
Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick have developed a new direct, precise test of Lithium-ion batteries’ internal temperatures and their electrodes potentials and…
Engineers Design New LED-Based Train Headlight Optimized for Energy Savings
Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated 8…
Fully Autonomous Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots Seek and Destroy Tumors
In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of…
NASA Designing Submarine to Explore Hydrocarbon Seas of Saturn’s Moon Titan
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane. Washington State University researchers…
Scientists Observe Self-Healing of a Confined Phase Change Memory Device
A collaboration between the lab of Judy Cha, the Carol and Douglas Melamed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and IBM’s Watson Research…
NASA Researchers Test Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC)
In deep space, accurate timekeeping is vital to navigation, but not all spacecraft have precise timepieces aboard. For 20 years, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)…
Texas A&M Chemists Develop Powerful New Type of Battery
Move over, lithium-ion; now, there’s a better battery on the horizon. A multi-institution team of scientists led by Texas A&M University chemist Sarbajit Banerjee has…
This Four Millimeter Long Millirobot Can Walk, Crawl and Roll Through Difficult Terrain
Tiny robots need not fear obstacle courses in the future: Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a minuscule,…
Physicists Take First Step Towards Quantum Dot Based Spin Qubit Registers
The worldwide race to create more, better and reliable quantum processors is progressing fast, as a team of TU Delft scientists led by Professor Vandersypen…
This Ultrathin Miniaturized System Can Deliver Drugs Directly to the Brain
MIT researchers have devised a miniaturized system that can deliver tiny quantities of medicine to brain regions as small as 1 cubic millimeter. This type…
Origami-Inspired Robot Opens New Avenues for Microsurgery, Microassembly
Because of their high precision and speed, Delta robots are deployed in many industrial processes, including pick-and-place assemblies, machining, welding, and food packaging. Starting with…
New Biosensor Can Monitor Glucose Levels From Contact Lenses
Constantly tracking a person’s glucose levels through their tears or sweat could be one step closer to providing people with diabetes an improved monitoring tool….
Science Breakthrough – Researchers Develop World’s First Quantum Metamaterial
An international team consisting of Russian and German scientists has made a breakthrough in the creation of seemingly impossible materials. They have managed to create…
Amazing Microfluidic Chip Emulates Living Organs and Tissues
For some years, scientists have been researching in order to find ways of reducing animal testing and accelerating clinical trials. In vitro assays with living…
Is This New Design a Major Step Toward Portable AI Devices?
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can’t be beat. Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere around 100 billion neurons….