Bizarre Things: Matter & Energy
September 19, 2024
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Sep. 18, 2024 — Ultra-thin layers of silk deposited on graphene in perfect alignment represent a key advance for the control needed in microelectronics and advanced neural network ...
Sep. 18, 2024 — Static electricity was first observed in 600 B.C., but researchers have struggled to explain how rubbing causes it. In 2019, researchers discovered nanosized surface deformations at play. The same researchers now say different electrical charges ...
Sep. 17, 2024 — Researchers developed an artificial motor at the supramolecular level that can develop impressive power. This wind-up motor is a tiny ribbon made of special molecules. When energy is applied, this ribbon aligns itself, moves like a small fin and can ...
Sep. 17, 2024 — Thanks to nanoscale devices as small as human cells, researchers can create groundbreaking material properties, leading to smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient electronics. However, to fully unlock the potential of nanotechnology, addressing ...
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Sep. 19, 2024 — Modern integrated microelectronic devices are often poorly repairable and difficult to recycle. Debondable adhesives play a key role in the transition to a circular economy with sustainable ...
Sep. 18, 2024 — Researchers want to transform the natural and abundant resource wood into useful materials, and central to that is a molecular machine found in fungi that decomposes the complex raw material into its ...
Sep. 17, 2024 — Van Gogh's brushstrokes in 'The Starry Night' create an illusion of sky movement so convincing it led researchers to wonder how closely it aligns with the physics of real skies. Marine sciences and ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — Could invisibility cloaks become a reality? New research brings this science fiction concept a step closer, with a breakthrough software package that ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers have been able to initiate a controlled movement in the very heart of an atom. They caused the atomic nucleus to interact with one of the ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — Extreme conditions prevail inside stars and planets. The pressure reaches millions of bars, and it can be several million degrees hot. Sophisticated methods make it possible to create such states of ...
Sep. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a flexible, durable electronic prototype that can harvest energy from body heat and turn it into electricity that can be ...
Sep. 11, 2024 — Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and ...
Sep. 6, 2024 — An AI-powered tool can distinguish dark matter's elusive effects from other cosmic phenomena, which could bring us closer to unlocking the secrets of dark ...
Sep. 9, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robotic leg with artificial muscles. Inspired by living creatures, it jumps across different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient ...
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Sep. 6, 2024 — Physicists have created a one-dimensional gas out of light. This has enabled them to test theoretical predictions about the transition into this exotic state of matter for the first time. The method ...
Sep. 4, 2024 — In creating a pair of new robots, researchers cultivated an unlikely component, one found on the forest floor: fungal mycelia. By harnessing mycelia's innate electrical signals, the researchers ...
Aug. 26, 2024 — New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible ...
Aug. 23, 2024 — Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for ...
Aug. 22, 2024 — A pioneering new DNA forensics technique is looking for a reliable method to measure a suspect's individual level of natural shedding of skin and other cells to add to, and compare with, ...
Aug. 22, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a technology capable of a suite of data storage and computing functions -- repeatedly storing, retrieving, computing, erasing or rewriting data -- that uses DNA rather ...
Will EEG Be Able to Read Your Dreams? The Future of the Brain Activity Measure as It Marks 100 Years
Aug. 22, 2024 — One hundred years after the human brain's electrical activity was first recorded, experts are celebrating the legacy of its discovery and sharing their predictions and priorities for its future. ...
Aug. 22, 2024 — Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report. The researchers hooked hydrogels up to a virtual game environment and then ...
Aug. 21, 2024 — In the scorching heat of summer, anyone who spends time outside could benefit from a cooling fabric. While there are some textiles that reflect the sun's rays or wick heat away, current options ...
Aug. 21, 2024 — Scientists studying the tracks of particles streaming from six billion collisions of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- an 'atom smasher' that recreates the ...
Aug. 21, 2024 — Who are we? Why are we here? We are stardust, the result of chemistry occurring throughout vast clouds of interstellar gas and dust. To better understand how that chemistry could create prebiotic ...
Aug. 20, 2024 — A new adaptive 3D printing system can identify the positions of randomly distributed organisms and safely move them to specific locations for ...
Aug. 20, 2024 — James Joyce's tome 'Finnegans Wake' famously breaks the rules of normal prose through its unusual, dreamlike stream of consciousness, and new work in chaos theory takes a closer look ...
Aug. 19, 2024 — A view into how nanoscale building blocks can rearrange into different organized structures on command is now possible with an approach that combines an electron microscope, a small sample holder ...
Aug. 19, 2024 — Some of the attractive hues of brightly colored, cloth-bound books from the Victorian era come from dyes that could pose a health risk to readers, collectors or librarians. The latest research on ...
Aug. 16, 2024 — On May 11, a gorgeous aurora surprised stargazers across the southern United States. That same weekend, a tractor guided by GPS missed its mark. What do the visibility of the northern lights have in ...
Aug. 16, 2024 — A zinc-air microbattery could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas ...
Aug. 15, 2024 — Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they grow -- spinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — A new milestone has been set for levitated optomechanics as a group of scientists observed the Berry phase of electron spins in nano-sized diamonds levitated in ...
Aug. 14, 2024 — Researchers have developed a smart fabric that can convert body heat and solar energy into electricity, potentially enabling continuous operation with no need for an external power source. Different ...
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- How to Catch a Criminal Using Their 'skin Shedder' Profile
- DNA Tech Offers Both Data Storage and Computing Functions
- Will EEG Be Able to Read Your Dreams? The Future of the Brain Activity Measure as It Marks 100 Years
- Hydrogels Can Play Pong by 'remembering' Previous Patterns of Electrical Simulation
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
- Chalk-Based Coating Creates a Cooling Fabric
- New Heaviest Exotic Antimatter Nucleus
- Extraterrestrial Chemistry With Earthbound Possibilities
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
- Adaptive 3D Printing System to Pick and Place Bugs and Other Organisms
- Analyzing 'Finnegans Wake' For Novel Spacing Between Punctuation Marks
Monday, August 19, 2024
- Morphable Materials: Researchers Coax Nanoparticles to Reconfigure Themselves
- Evidence Stacks Up for Poisonous Books Containing Toxic Dyes
Friday, August 16, 2024
- New Research Shows Unprecedented Atmospheric Changes During May's Geomagnetic Superstorm
- Engineers Design Tiny Batteries for Powering Cell-Sized Robots
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Physicists Throw World's Smallest Disco Party
- Smart Fabric Converts Body Heat Into Electricity
- Engineers Conduct First in-Orbit Test of 'swarm' Satellite Autonomous Navigation
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
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- Engineers Make Tunable, Shape-Changing Metamaterial Inspired by Vintage Toys
- Engineers Bring Efficient Optical Neural Networks Into Focus
Friday, August 9, 2024
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- 3D-Printed Blood Vessels Bring Artificial Organs Closer to Reality
- X-Ray Imagery of Vibrating Diamond Opens Avenues for Quantum Sensing
- Turning Unused Signals Such as Wi-Fi Into Energy for Electronics
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
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- Super-Black Wood Can Improve Telescopes, Optical Devices and Consumer Goods
- Injury Dressings in First-Aid Kits Provide a New Technique to Reveal Shark Species After Bite Incidents
- What No One Has Seen Before -- Simulation of Gravitational Waves from Failing Warp Drive
Monday, July 29, 2024
- Dark Matter: A Camera Trap for the Invisible
- Shape-Shifting 'transformer Bots' Inspired by Origami
- Robotics: Self-Powered 'bugs' Can Skim Across Water to Detect Environmental Data
Thursday, July 25, 2024
- Climate Change Will Bring More Turbulence to Flights in the Northern Hemisphere, Study Finds
- Artificial Blood Vessels Could Improve Heart Bypass Outcomes
- A Recipe for Zero-Emissions Fuel: Soda Cans, Seawater, and Caffeine
- Spin Qubits Go Trampolining
- Chemical Analyses Find Hidden Elements from Renaissance Astronomer Tycho Brahe's Alchemy Laboratory
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
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- Ant Insights Lead to Robot Navigation Breakthrough
- Completely Stretchy Lithium-Ion Battery for Flexible Electronics
- Smart Soil Can Water and Feed Itself
- Enzyme-Powered 'snot Bots' Help Deliver Drugs in Sticky Situations
Monday, July 15, 2024
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- Muscle Machine: How Water Controls the Speed of Muscle Contraction
- Learning Dance Moves Could Help Humanoid Robots Work Better With Humans
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Friday, June 28, 2024
- 'World Record' For Data Transmission Speed
- Soft, Stretchy Electrode Simulates Touch Sensations Using Electrical Signals
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Precision Instrument Bolsters Efforts to Find Elusive Dark Energy
- Microrobot-Packed Pill Shows Promise for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice
- Mechanical Computer Relies on Kirigami Cubes, Not Electronics
- Small, Adsorbent 'fins' Collect Humidity Rather Than Swim Through Water
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
- Your Future Medications Could Be Personalized for You on a 3D Printer
- Moving Objects Precisely With Sound
- Robots Face the Future
Monday, June 24, 2024
- Meet CARMEN, a Robot That Helps People With Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Innovative 3D Printing Method Streamlines Multi-Materials Manufacturing
Friday, June 21, 2024
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- Researchers Leverage Shadows to Model 3D Scenes, Including Objects Blocked from View
- Breakthrough May Clear Major Hurdle for Quantum Computers
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- Pair Plasmas Found in Deep Space Can Now Be Generated in the Lab
- Scientists Preserve DNA in an Amber-Like Polymer
- Nanosized Blocks Spontaneously Assemble in Water to Create Tiny Floating Checkerboards
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- Swimming Microrobots Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs to Metastatic Lung Tumors in Mice
- To Heal Skin, Scientists Invent Living Bioelectronics
- Researchers Leverage Inkjet Printing to Make a Portable Multispectral 3D Camera
- Towards a New Era in Flexible Piezoelectric Sensors for Both Humans and Robots
- AI-Powered Simulation Training Improves Human Performance in Robotic Exoskeletons
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- 3D-Printed Mini-Actuators Can Move Small Soft Robots, Lock Them Into New Shapes
- Algae Offer Real Potential as a Renewable Electricity Source
- New Technique Could Help Build Quantum Computers of the Future
- Trash-Sorting Robot Mimics Complex Human Sense of Touch
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Researchers Engineer New Approach for Controlling Thermal Emission
- Four-Legged, Dog-Like Robot 'sniffs' Hazardous Gases in Inaccessible Environments
- Protocol for Creating 'wired Miniature Brains'
- Researchers Demonstrate the First Chip-Based 3D Printer
- Researchers Create Skin-Inspired Sensory Robots to Provide Medical Treatment
Thursday, June 6, 2024
- Liquid Metal-Based Electronic Logic Device That Mimics Intelligent Prey-Capture Mechanism of Venus Flytrap
- People Feel More Connected to 'tweezer-Like' Bionic Tools That Don't Resemble Human Hands
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- A New Way of Designing Auxetic Materials
- Some Countries Could Meet Their Total Electricity Needs from Floating Solar Panels
- Unraveling the Physics of Knitting
Monday, June 3, 2024
- A Technique for More Effective Multipurpose Robots
- Enhancing Nanofibrous Acoustic Energy Harvesters With Artificial Intelligence
- The Unexpected Connection Between Brewing Coffee and Understanding Turbulence