Technologies News

Jul 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers and engineers, led by Dr Kyu-Jin Cho of Seoul National University in Korea, has created an insect-like robot that can jump on water surfaces. This image shows a water strider together with robotic insects that can jump on water. Image credit: Seoul National University. As Dr Cho and co-authors watched the water strider jump on water surfaces using high-speed cameras, they noticed that the long legs accelerate gradually, so that...

Jul 16, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Rice University has completed the first analysis of how 3D boron nitride might be used as a tunable material to control heat flow...

Jul 8, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Dr Thomas Szkopek of McGill University suggests that black phosphorus could help researchers surmount one of the big challenges for...

Jul 7, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, per-mile greenhouse gas emissions of an electric vehicle deployed as an autonomous...

Jul 3, 2015 by News Staff

Researchers studying the seahorse’s tail have found that square-shaped tails are better when both grasping and armor are needed. The finding could lead...

Jun 9, 2015 by News Staff

A group of bioengineers led by Dr Manu Prakash of Stanford University has developed a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving water...

Apr 27, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists from Northwestern University and Duke University has found a way to manufacture a liquid nanoscopic laser whose emission properties...

Apr 10, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that could lead to smaller devices...

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the University of Sheffield, UK, has developed and tested a promising novel method that uses inexpensive samplers (cotton tampons)...

Mar 18, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists headed by Dr Franz Geiger of Northwestern University has found that slightly imperfect graphene shuttles protons, and only protons,...

Jan 28, 2015 by News Staff

In research that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments and food production, a team of chemists from Australia and the United States, led...

Jan 16, 2015 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Jason Petta of Princeton University has built a rice grain-sized microwave laser, or maser, powered by single electrons...

Dec 3, 2014 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, has created a device that enables its users to touch and feel three-dimensional holograms in thin...

Sep 10, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Spain, Germany and France has managed to synthesize graphene’s cousin – an atom-thin, ordered, two-dimensional material...

Sep 6, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Finland and the United Kingdom has engineered the common gut bacteria, Escherichia coli, to generate renewable propane. This...

Aug 25, 2014 by News Staff

The newly developed transparent luminescent solar concentrator can be used on buildings, cell phones and any other device that has a clear surface, says...

Apr 24, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of New Mexico have used satellite images to track the movements and demographic health...

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

A previously unknown painting by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian painter and architect better known as Raphael, has been identified by Granada University...

Nov 27, 2013 by News Staff

Using satellite images from Google Earth, Canadian scientists have found that fishing weirs off the coast of Persian Gulf countries could be catching up...

Sep 10, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from the United States and Switzerland have demonstrated a novel mechanism for extracting energy from light. Dr Bonnell and her colleagues fabricated...