Tag: Research/Development

June 20, 2019

Scientists reveal the inter-cluster and intra-cluster dynamics of thiolate-protected gold-silver alloys, which is based on metal exchange From effective medicines ...

Human-on-a-chip model tests cancer drug efficacy and toxicity for therapeutic index

In vitro multi-organ system by Hesperos, Inc. realistically replicates the responses of cancer treatments and has potential to inform treatment ...

8,000 cyber security experts to attend 9th Annual Cyber Week Conference at Tel Aviv University

Weeklong event features world's top cyber security experts in government, military, industry and academia On June 23-27, more than 8,000 ...

First step towards a better prosthetic leg? Trip people over and over

Vanderbilt team builds device to capture stumble responseCredit: CREATE at Vanderbilt University Andrés Martínez strode briskly on the treadmill, staring ...

A forest of nano-mushroom structures keep this plastic clean and stain-free

Pitt engineers develop new optical stain-resistant plastic based on mushroom structures PITTSBURGH (June 19, 2019) ¬--Technologies like solar panels and ...

Expanding the temperature range of lithium-ion batteries

Electric cars struggle with extreme temperatures, mainly because of impacts on the electrolyte solutions in their lithium-ion batteries. Now, researchers ...

In the Samara Polytech, the quality of metal is determined by the ‘sound’

Sound impulses are captured with a unique installationCredit: @SamaraPolytech The acoustic analytical emission complex, developed by an interdisciplinary project team ...

‘Alexa, monitor my heart’: Researchers develop first contactless cardiac arrest AI system for smart speakers

Credit: Sarah McQuate/University of Washington Almost 500,000 Americans die each year from cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly stops beating. ...

Automated cryptocode generator is helping secure the web

System automatically writes optimized algorithms to encrypt data in Google Chrome browsers and web applications Nearly every time you open ...

Collaborative research charts course to hundreds of new nitrides

Andriy Zakutayev knows the odds of a scientist stumbling across a new nitride mineral are about the same as a ...

Now your phone can become a robot that does the boring work

What you do is what the robot doesCredit: Purdue University/Jared Pike WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- If any factory worker could ...

New study suggests automation will not wipe out truck-driving jobs

While stories in the media present automation as having the potential to eliminate large swaths of jobs in the near ...

New sustainable technologies for wood-to-textile value chain enables increased production of man-made cellulose fibres in Europe

GRETE, the Green chemicals and technologies for the wood-to-textile value chain project, has been granted EUR 2.6 million by the ...

Rebirth of the Japanese black tea market: challenges for entrepreneurial green tea farmers

Credit: Kanazawa University In Japan, tea farms are found in warm areas, whose northern limit is Ibaraki prefecture, where green ...

Emerging device by the fusion of IGZO and ferroelectric-HfO2

Next generation memory with low-power, high-speed, and high capacityCredit: Masaharu Kobayashi As a part of JST PRESTO program, Associate professor ...

Greentown Labs & BASF start circularity challenge to pursue ideas for a circular economy

Six-month accelerator program seeks innovation in the plastics, energy storage and recycling value chains Greentown Labs and BASF jointly launch ...

NASA’s Webb Sunshield undergoes rocket fitting, more testing

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory's spacecraft bus and the sunshield, ...

Scientists reveal reversible super-glue inspired by snail mucus

Snails secrete a mucous that acts like super-glue, allowing them to adhere to rough surfaces like rocks. Inspired by this ...

Frontera named 5th fastest supercomputer in the world

TACC's leadership-class system tops all academic supercomputers, achieves 23.5 PetaFLOPS on Top500 benchmarkCredit: Jorge Salazar, TACC The Frontera supercomputer at ...

Tuning into the LCDs of tomorrow: Exploring the novel IGZO-11 semiconductor