Swarms of Nanomachines Could Improve the Efficiency of Any Machine
The research team of Prof. Massimiliano Esposito of the University of Luxembourg studied the thermodynamics of small nanomachines. All machines convert one form of energy…
The research team of Prof. Massimiliano Esposito of the University of Luxembourg studied the thermodynamics of small nanomachines. All machines convert one form of energy…
The scientists of the Inter-University Department of Space Research of Samara University presented a prototype of a propulsion system for the maneuvering nanosatellite SamSat-M. The…
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, which they highlight today in the journal Advanced Materials. By…
An international, Yale-led research team has taken a new approach to stabilize high-power lasers: They’re fighting chaos with chaos. There has been a rapidly growing…
The latest development in textiles and fibers is a kind of soft hardware that you can wear: cloth that has electronic devices built right into…
An international research group applied theoretical physics methods to investigate the Great Pyramid’s electromagnetic response to radio waves. Scientists predicted that under resonance conditions the…
A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineers has created a physical artificial neural network — a device modeled on how the human brain works…
Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant “rebar graphene” is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene. Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon….
Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of photonic devices. MIT researchers have designed an optical filter on…
Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks….
Programming the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells has had promising results for treating blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. This tactic has…
Nanokirigami has taken off as a field of research in the last few years; the approach is based on the ancient arts of origami (making…
Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything from rainwear to military tents, but conventional water-repellent coatings have been shown to persist in the environment…
Many current and future technologies require alloys that can withstand high temperatures without corroding. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have hailed a…
Bolometers, devices that monitor electromagnetic radiation through heating of an absorbing material, are used by astronomers and homeowners alike. But most such devices have limited…
Technology captures water evaporating from cooling towers; prototype to be installed on MIT’s Central Utility Plant. A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide…
A new way of enhancing the interactions between light and matter, developed by researchers at MIT and Israel’s Technion, could someday lead to more efficient…
Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types of 2-D materials. 2-D materials are single-atom layers that can…