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Robot Hands Gain a Gentler Touch: Tactile Sensing Technology Builds on Tiny Barometer Chips
April 18, 2013 — What use is a hand without nerves, that can't tell what it's holding? A hand that lifts a can of soda to your lips, but inadvertently tips or crushes it in the process? Scientists have now developed ... > full story -
Tests in New York City Suggest How to Improve Emergency Radio Communications
April 18, 2013 — Radio communications can be unreliable in underground tunnels and other large, complicated structures, posing a safety hazard for emergency responders. New tests of wireless emergency safety ... > full story -
Super-Nanotubes: 'Remarkable' Spray-on Coating Combines Carbon Nanotubes With Ceramic
April 17, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated a spray-on mixture of carbon nanotubes and ceramic that has unprecedented ability to resist damage while absorbing laser light. Coatings that absorb as much of the ... > full story -
Quantum Computing Taps Nucleus of Single Atom
April 17, 2013 — Australian engineers have demonstrated that quantum information can be "written" onto the nucleus of a single atom and "read" out with incredible accuracy. The result was achieved using a silicon ... > full story -
Small in Size, Big on Power: New Microbatteries the Most Powerful Yet
April 16, 2013 — The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car ... > full story -
Layered '2-D Nanocrystals' Promising New Semiconductor
April 16, 2013 — Researchers are developing a new type of semiconductor technology for future computers and electronics based on "two-dimensional nanocrystals" layered in sheets less than a nanometer thick that could ... > full story -
Neighbors Move Electrons Jointly: Ultrafast Collective Electron Transfer After Excitation of Single Electron
April 16, 2013 — Applying femtosecond x-ray methods, researchers have observed an extremely fast, collective electron transfer of ~100 molecular ions after excitation of a single electron in a crystal of transition ... > full story -
Color of OLEDs Can Now at Last Be Predicted Thanks to New Modeling Technique
April 15, 2013 — OLEDs can be made more efficiently and at lower cost by a better understanding of the electronic ... > full story -
Tiny Wireless Device Shines Light on Mouse Brain, Generating Reward
April 11, 2013 — Using a miniature electronic device implanted in the brain, scientists have tapped into the internal reward system of mice, prodding neurons to release dopamine, a chemical associated with pleasure. ... > full story -
Diamond as a Building Material for Optical Circuits
April 11, 2013 — The application of light for information processing opens up a multitude of possibilities. However, to be able to adequately use photons in circuits and sensors, materials need to have particular ... > full story
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