Much More Versatile than Apple Pay Tuesday, October 10, 2017 I LOVE technology. I absolutely do. Ever since I was a child… But I know better than to put all my eggs in one basket. Phones have a ...Read More
The rise of respectful robots Sunday, October 08, 2017 Someday, when droids walk among us, they’ll probably be polite pedestrians. MEEP MEEP This courteous new robot avoids obstacles and ...Read More
Video gamers have an advantage in learning Sunday, October 01, 2017 Summary: Neuropsychologists let video gamers compete against non-gamers in a learning competition. During the test, the video gamers ...Read More
Tiny electrically pumped micro-lasers epitaxially grown on industry standard silicon substrates Saturday, September 30, 2017 Decades ago, the Moore's law predicted that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two y...Read More
Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly Saturday, September 30, 2017 Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sendin...Read More
Researchers Integrate Wireless High-speed Data And Power Transfer Saturday, September 30, 2017 Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a system that can simultaneously deliver watts of power and transmit data...Read More
Biometric have designed and created a fake finger to protect identities Friday, September 29, 2017 MSU's biometrics expert Anil Jain and his Ph.D. student Joshua Engelsma have, for the first time, designed and created a fake fin...Read More
When robots help with shopping Friday, September 29, 2017 The IFL PiRo robot detects the objects desired and automatically puts them into shopping baskets. Credit: Laila Tkotz, KIT Today...Read More
Researchers develop turbines to convert the power of ocean waves into clean, renewable energy. Thursday, September 28, 2017 The blades of this five-blade turbine are made of a soft material and they rotate on their axis when influenced by ocean waves -- the d...Read More
New printer creates color by shaping nanostructures Monday, September 25, 2017 Laser morphs tiny germanium pillars to generate shades that won’t fade SUPER RESOLUTION A new printer can make extremely high-resol...Read More
The incredible shrinking transistor just got smaller Monday, September 25, 2017 Carbon nanotubes enable miniature components for computer chips SMALL WONDER A new transistor, made with carbon nanotubes, is tinie...Read More
Tiny quantum storage device fits on a chip Monday, September 25, 2017 The secret to shrinking is light-capturing ridges PHOTON RECALL A new supersmall device for storing quantum information could help e...Read More
Digital vs. Traditional Film Photography There's - Room for Both Friday, September 22, 2017 We've seen a phenomenal transition from traditional film photography to digital photography, led in part by the cameras on the ubiqu...Read More
Cray Supercomputer -- Seymour Cray is considered the founder of supercomputing. Monday, September 18, 2017 Picture of SuperComputer A supercomputer refers to the class of most powerful computer systems world-wide at the time of reference. Th...Read More
In these bot hookups, the machines meld their minds Wednesday, September 13, 2017 New composite robots take coordination to a new level MIND MELDERS These Roomba-like robots latch onto each other with m...Read More
50 years ago, West Germany embraced nuclear power Monday, September 11, 2017 Excerpt from the September 16, 1967 issue of Science News NUCLEAR OPTION This nuclear power plant in Stade, Germany, was one of tw...Read More
Speech recognition has come a long way in 50 years Thursday, September 07, 2017 SAY WHAT? Hello, Siri, can you understand me now? That conversation goes much differently today than it would have in the 1960s, when...Read More