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Device for Portable, Ultra-Precise Clocks and Quantum Sensors Developed
May 9, 2013 Researchers have developed a portable way to produce ultracold atoms for quantum technology and quantum information ... > full story -
PCBs Are Everywhere: Problem Exists in Industrial City and Rural Community
May 8, 2013 Despite the expectation of a large environmental exposure difference, researchers report that mothers and children in East Chicago, Ind., and residents in a rural area in Iowa have the same PCB ... > full story -
Graphene Quantum Dots May Someday Tell If It Will Rain on Mars
May 8, 2013 Chemical engineers may be able to improve humidity and pressure sensors, particularly those used in outer ... > full story -
Engineers Fine-Tune the Sensitivity of Nano-Chemical Sensor
May 8, 2013 Researchers have discovered a technique for controlling the sensitivity of graphene chemical ... > full story -
'Invisibility Cloak' for Thermal Flow Constructed
May 8, 2013 By means of special metamaterials, light and sound can be passed around objects. Researchers have now succeeded in demonstrating that the same materials can also be used to specifically influence the ... > full story -
Scientists Build a Living Patch for Damaged Hearts
May 6, 2013 Biomedical engineers have grown three-dimensional human heart muscle that acts just like natural tissue. This advancement could be important in treating heart attack patients or in serving as a ... > full story -
New Device Can Extract Human DNA With Full Genetic Data in Minutes
May 6, 2013 Engineers have created a device that can extract human DNA from fluid samples in a simpler, more efficient and environmentally friendly way than conventional ... > full story -
More Than a Good Eye: Robot Uses Arms, Location and More to Discover Objects
May 6, 2013 A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone. But by taking advantage of all of the information available to it -- an object's location, size, ... > full story -
Engineers Manipulate a Buckyball by Inserting a Single Water Molecule
May 6, 2013 Engineering researchers have developed a technique to isolate a single water molecule inside a buckyball and drive motion of the "big" nonpolar ball through the encapsulated "small" polar H2O ... > full story -
Robots Take Part in a Space Simulation
May 3, 2013 The two robots Flobi and Nao worked full time for three weeks in an isolation study in Cologne. Scientists were studying how these intelligent assistance systems can help astronauts to keep fit ... > full story
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