New design strategy for longer lasting batteries
It's always exciting to bring home a new smartphone that seems to do anything, but it can be all downhill from there. With every charge...
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Mummy visualization impresses in computer journal
Credit: Visualization Center C Anders Ynnerman, professor of scientific visualisation at Linköping University and director of Visualization Center C, together with colleagues from Linköping Universit..
National cluster helps companies tap on new 3-D printing technologies
Credit: NTU Singapore Tissue implants customised to a patient could soon be printed using a new type of 3D-printer under development by Nanyang Technological University,...
Can the donut-shaped magnet ‘CAPPuccino submarine’ hunt for dark matter?
Credit: (Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, wikipedia) Scientists at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) optimized some...
UNIST researchers get green light to commercialize metal-air batteries
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently announced that they have successfully developed a new way to increase energy efficiency of...
Cleveland Clinic researchers receive Outstanding Investigator Awards from NIH
Two Cleveland Clinic researchers have been awarded multi-year, multi-million dollar federal grants that support exceptional scientists with a track record of achievement. Bruce Trapp, Ph.D.,...
CIRM approves new funding to UC San Diego researchers fighting Zika virus and cancer
Credit: UC San Diego Health The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved a pair of $2 million...
Big Brother will have some difficulty ‘watching you’ in future
Credit: Wits University Nature Physics today, Monday, 23 January 2017, published online the research by a team led by physicists from the School of Physics...
Today’s rare meteorites were once common
Credit: Image credit: © Don Davis, Southwest Research Institute. Four hundred and sixty-six million years ago, there was a giant collision in outer space. Something...
Breaking the optical bandwidth record of stable pulsed lasers
Credit: Ultrafast Optical Processing Group, INRS-EMT The Ultrafast Optical Processing Group at INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) has redefined the limitations and constraints...
Experiment resolves mystery about wind flows on Jupiter
Credit: Jonathan Aurnou One mystery has been whether the jets exist only in the planet's upper atmosphere -- much like the Earth's own jet streams...
UTMB researcher is co-inventor of a faster and more accurate test for diagnosing Zika
Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center, have developed a...
System for handling database caching yields faster websites
Today, loading a web page on a big website usually involves a database query -- to retrieve the latest contributions to a discussion you're participating...
Finding a needle in the ocean
Credit: Ambre Alexander Payne/University of Delaware Big data is being used in a broad range of applications from targeting customers and improving sports performance to...
What might Trump mean for chemistry? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2017 -- Donald Trump is now the 45th president of the U.S. While much was said about...
