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Scientists unveil smaller, more powerful brain-machine interface
Researchers have developed a new brain-machine interface that allows the human brain to link directly with silicon-based technologies.
Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless and cell phone communications
Researchers are reinventing the mirror, at least for microwaves, potentially replacing the familiar 3-D dishes and microwave horns we see on rooftops and cell towers with flat panels that are...
Researchers observe ultrafast processes of single molecules for the first time
Markus Koch, head of the research group Femtosecond Dynamics at the Institute of Experimental Physics at TU Graz, and his team develop new methods for time-resolved femtosecond laser spectroscopy to...
New catalyst material could fuel clean energy revolution
Fuel cells and water electrolyzers that are cheap and efficient will form the cornerstone of a hydrogen fuel based economy, which is one of the most promising clean and sustainable...
Aluminosilicate glasses can serve as visible luminescence materials
Broadband emissions in the visible spectral range can be achieved by pumping Pr3+ doped in crystal, ceramic and glass. Fluoride glasses are commonly used as host material of gain fiber...
Novel strategy to fabricate single-atom catalysts via electrochemical deposition
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have reported a strategy to fabricate single-atom catalysts (SACs). They synthesized more...
Scientists develop ice-templated filler skeleton with enhanced thermal conductivity
A research team led by Dr. Sun Rong and Dr. Zeng Xiaoliang from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof....
Electric jolt to carbon makes better water purifier
Nagoya University scientists have developed a one-step fabrication process that improves the ability of nanocarbons to remove toxic heavy metal ions from water. The findings, published in the journal ACS Applied...
Advanced ‘super-planckian’ material exhibits LED-like light when heated
Could there be a new kind of light in the universe? Since the late 19th century, scientists have understood that, when heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum...
Photons and electrons one on one
The dynamics of electrons changes ever so slightly on each interaction with a photon. The group of Prof. Ursula Keller has now measured such interplay in its arguably purest form...
Chasing lithium ions on the move in a fast-charging battery
A team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has captured in real time how lithium ions move in...
Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless and cell phone communications
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are reinventing the mirror, at least for microwaves, potentially replacing the familiar 3-D dishes and microwave horns we see on rooftops and cell towers...
Realizing kagome spin ice in a frustrated intermetallic compound
Exotic phases of matter known as spin ices are defined by frustrated spins that obey local "ice rules"—similar to electric dipoles in water ice. Physicists can define ice rules in...
Driving Ferrari’s $300,000 Portofino, a restless racehorse of a car
The Portofino. Our test car didn't have the racing stripe, but it could still go fast. (Ferrari /)If there is a better looking hardtop convertible than the racehorse-like Ferrari Portofino, we haven’t seen...
Researchers measure one-photon transitions in an unbound electron
The dynamics of electrons change ever so slightly on each interaction with a photon. Physicists at ETH Zurich have now measured such interplay in its arguably purest form—by recording the...
A milestone in ultrafast gel fabrication from unconventional self-healing noble metal gels
Electrocatalysis is extensively involved in many important energy-related processes such as the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for fuel cells, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) for green hydrogen production, and the...
Advanced 'super-planckian' material exhibits LED-like light when heated
Could there be a new kind of light in the universe? Since the late 19th century, scientists have understood that, when heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum...
How to get conductive gels to stick when wet
Researchers have come up with a way of getting conductive polymer gels to adhere to wet surfaces.
Chip-based device opens new doors for augmented reality and quantum computing
Researchers have designed a new chip-based device that can shape and steer blue light with no moving parts. The device could greatly reduce the size of light projection components used...
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' won't return when Broadway reopens
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" -- starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett -- will not return when Broadway theaters reopen after the COVID-19 crisis passes.
Device could 'hear' disease through structures housing cells
Researchers have built a device that uses sound waves to detect the stiffness of an extracellular matrix, a structural network that contains cells. Changes in the stiffness of this structure...
Tiny double accelerator recycles energy
A team of scientists has built a miniature double particle accelerator that can recycle some of the laser energy fed into the system to boost the energy of the accelerated...
Photons and electrons one-on-one
The dynamics of electrons changes ever so slightly on each interaction with a photon. Physicists have now measured such interplay in its arguably purest form -- by recording the attosecond-scale...
Electric jolt to carbon makes better water purifier
Nanocarbons for purifying water get a lot more efficient by exposing a precursor mixture to high voltage.
Harnessing cells to build functional materials
Polyaniline coating changes the firing frequency of targeted neurons
Opening plastic packaging produces microplastics
Tearing and cutting lead to measurable debris from various forms of plastic
Coronavirus: Chris Packham on Covid-19's impact on nature
Chris Packham says nature can help during self-isolation and considers coronavirus's environmental impact.
Raytheon nabs $392.4M for tactical missiles
The Navy awarded Raytheon a $392.4 million contract modification for production and delivery of tactical missiles for the Air Force, Navy and a variety of foreign governments, the Pentagon announced.