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September 24, 2016

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Popeye Was Right: There’s Energy in That Spinach

Sep. 22, 2016 — Using a simple membrane extract from spinach leaves, researchers have developed a cell that produces electricity and hydrogen from water using sunlight. Based on photosynthesis, and technology paves ... read more

The Microdoctors in Our Bodies

Sep. 21, 2016 — Researchers are developing tiny, sophisticated technological and biological machines enabling non-invasive, selective therapies. Their creations include genetically modified ... read more

Brain to Robot: 'Move, Please'

Sep. 21, 2016 — Using the power of thought to control a robot that helps to move a paralysed hand: new research could fundamentally change the therapy and daily lives of stroke ... read more

Galactic Fireworks Illuminate Monster Hydrogen Blob in Space

Sep. 21, 2016 — An international team of researchers using ALMA and other telescopes has discovered the power source illuminating a so-called Lyman-alpha Blob -- a rare, brightly glowing, ... read more

Detecting Emotions With Wireless Signals

Sep. 21, 2016 — Researchers have developed "EQ-Radio," a device that can detect a person's emotions using wireless signals. By measuring subtle changes in breathing and heart rhythms, ... read more

Physicists Create Nano-Sized Device With Huge Potential in Field of Quantum Computing

Sep. 21, 2016 — An intricately sculpted device is so tiny it can only be seen under a microscope. But their diamond microdisk could lead to ... read more

Beam Me Up Scotty! Quantum Teleportation of a Particle of Light Six Kilometers

Sep. 21, 2016 — What if you could behave like the crew on the Starship Enterprise and teleport yourself home or anywhere else in the world? ... read more

Earthquakes, ‘Mars-Quakes,’ and the Possibility of Life

Sep. 20, 2016 — A new study shows that rocks formed by the grinding together of other rocks during earthquakes are rich in trapped hydrogen -- a finding that suggests similar seismic ... read more

New Ways to Track Stars Eaten by Black Holes

Sep. 19, 2016 — Astrophysicists have broken new ground in ways to observe a star swallowed by a black hole, promising to help paint a clearer picture of this ... read more

New Spectroscopic Technique May Help Zero in on Martian Life

Aug. 16, 2016 — Scientists have developed a technique that will help NASA's Mars rover quickly and non-invasively identify sediments that are relatively unaltered, and that maintain much of ... read more

Aerosol Tea Promises Perfect Cuppa

Researchers Develop Tech to Read Closed Book

Hungry Startup Uses Robots to Make Pizza

Eagles Away! Dutch Police Unveil Latest Recruits Against Drones

For First Time, Individual Atoms Seen Keeping Away from Each Other or Bunching Up as Pairs

Sep. 15, 2016 — If you bottle up a gas and try to image its atoms using today's most powerful microscopes, you will see little more than a shadowy blur. Atoms zip around at lightning speeds and are difficult to ... read more

A Tight Squeeze for Electrons: Quantum Effects Observed in 'One-Dimensional' Wires

Sep. 15, 2016 — Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional 'quantum wires' and observing the interactions between them. The results could be used to aid ... read more

Food Waste Could Store Solar, Wind Energy

Sep. 15, 2016 — Saving up excess solar and wind energy for times when the sun is down or the air is still requires a storage device. Batteries get the most attention as a promising solution although pumped ... read more

Stem Cells Grown Into 3-D Lung-in-a-Dish

Sep. 15, 2016 — By coating tiny gel beads with lung-derived stem cells and then allowing them to self-assemble into the shapes of the air sacs found in human lungs, researchers have succeeded in creating ... read more

Exploration Team Shoots for the Moon With Water-Propelled Satellite

Sep. 15, 2016 — Cislunar Explorers, a team of Cornell University students guided by Mason Peck, a former senior official at NASA and associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is attempting to ... read more

X-Ray Detection Sheds New Light on Pluto

Sep. 14, 2016 — Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made the first detections of X-rays from Pluto. These observations offer new insight into the space environment surrounding the largest and ... read more

Pop Science: Engineers Stop Soap Bubbles from Swirling

Sep. 13, 2016 — Engineers have happened upon a way to stop the movement of the colorful eddies on the surface of soap bubbles. The results are works of art that could lead to stable engineered foams for medical ... read more

New Fabric Uses Sun and Wind to Power Devices

Sep. 13, 2016 — Fabrics that can generate electricity from physical movement have been in the works for a few years. Now researchers have taken the next step, developing a fabric that can simultaneously harvest ... read more

Tuning Materials and Devices to Adapt to Their Environment

Sep. 13, 2016 — By leveraging molecular beam epitaxy deposition and high-quality materials with large dielectric constants, researchers pursue future radio-frequency materials and devices capable of being ... read more

Explaining Why the Universe Can Be 'Transparent': Universe's Reionization Is Based on a Galaxy's Dust Content

Sep. 12, 2016 — Scientists can explain why the universe has enough energy to become transparent. The study marks the first quantitative study of how the gas content within galaxies scales with the amount of ... read more

Semiconducting Inorganic Double Helix

Sep. 12, 2016 — It is the double helix, with its stable and flexible structure of genetic information, that made life on Earth possible in the first place. Now a team has discovered a double helix structure in an ... read more

Electron Beam Microscope Directly Writes Nanoscale Features in Liquid With Metal Ink

Sep. 9, 2016 — Scientists have harnessed a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to directly write tiny patterns in metallic 'ink,' forming features in liquid that are finer than half the width ... read more

Physicists Discover 'Smoke Rings' Made of Laser Light

Sep. 9, 2016 — Physicists have discovered that self-focused laser pulses generate violent swirls of optical energy that resemble smoke rings. In these light structures, known as 'spatiotemporal optical ... read more

Dances With Waves: Breakthrough in Moving Small Objects Using Acoustics

Sep. 9, 2016 — Researchers have made a breakthrough in controlling the motion of multiple objects on a vibrating plate with a single acoustic source. By playing carefully constructed melodies, the scientists can ... read more

Ripples in Fabric of Space-Time? Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes

Sep. 7, 2016 — Computer simulations of a spherical collection of stars known as 'NGC 6101' reveal that it contains hundreds of black holes, until now thought impossible. Recent observations already found ... read more

Reconciling Dwarf Galaxies With Dark Matter

Sep. 7, 2016 — Dwarf galaxies are enigmas wrapped in riddles. Although they are the smallest galaxies, they represent some of the biggest mysteries about our universe. While many dwarf galaxies surround our own ... read more

Atomic Scale Pipes Available on Demand and by Design

Sep. 7, 2016 — Researchers have discovered how to create the smallest ever water and gas pipes that are only one atom in ... read more

Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding

Sep. 7, 2016 — When you have too many robots together, they get so focused on not colliding with each other that they eventually just stop moving. Georgia Tech's new algorithms are different: they allow any ... read more

Expanding When It Shouldn't: New Material With Exceptional Negative Compressibility

Sep. 7, 2016 — Our intuition tells us that a sample of material compressed uniformly from all sides should reduce its dimensions. Only a few materials subjected to hydrostatic compression exhibit the opposite ... read more

Hubble Discovers Rare Fossil Relic of Early Milky Way

Sep. 7, 2016 — A fossilized remnant of the early Milky Way harboring stars of hugely different ages has been revealed by an international team of astronomers. This stellar system resembles a globular cluster, but ... read more

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