Tag: Research/Development

Credit: EPFL Individually, ants have only so much strength and intelligence. However, as a colony, they can use complex strategies ...

Funding for new semiconductor research centre announced

Swansea University to get new Centre for Integrative Semiconductor MaterialsCredit: Stride Treglown A new state-of-the-art facility that will bring together ...

Discovered: A new way to measure the stability of next-generation magnetic fusion devices

Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Scientists seeking to bring to Earth the fusion that powers the sun and stars ...

Carbon nanotube tape stays sticky in extreme temperatures

Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01629 In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness ...

Shared e-cargo bikes: boom and barriers in Basel

Sustainable means of mobility are becoming ever more popular. In Switzerland, around 15,000 people have registered with the online platform ...

UCLA-developed terahertz sensors work at room temperature, unlike current technology

Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detailCredit: UCLA Engineering Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have ...

Tour de France pelotons governed by sight, not aerodynamics

Credit: Photo by Quino Al LOGAN, UTAH -- The 2019 Tour de France has just begun. As 190 riders speed ...

Pioneering Army researcher earns Presidential Early Career award

Credit: Army Research Laboratory A researcher from the Army's corporate research laboratory has received the Presidential Early Career Award for ...

Vitamin C is key to protection of exciting new nanomaterial

Credit: Texas A&M University Engineering In work that could open a floodgate of future applications for a new class of ...

Ben-Gurion University researchers train dogs to respond to haptic vibration commands

Modified haptic vest has applications for search and rescue, service animal programs -- presented in World Haptic Conference paperCredit: Jonathan ...

NSF funds Bridges-2 supercomputer at PSC

$10-million system will expand national capacity for coupled HPC, AI and data and serve nontraditional and traditional high-performance-computing communities A ...

The folds in our grey cells

Dr. Silvia Budday receives DFG funding for junior research group investigating the mechanics of the human brain. We all know ...

Blue light at night increases the consumption of sweets in rats

A new study demonstrates that just one hour of exposure to blue light at night - the kind of light ...

Quantum computing: Forschungszentrum Jülich and Google announce research partnership