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Singing posters and talking shirts: Engineers turn objects into FM stations
The FM backscattering system encodes audio or data on top of a regular FM broadcast but uses an unoccupied frequency in the FM radio...
Humans have three times more brown body fat
The two scientists Tobias Fromme (l.) and Carlos Gerngross revealed that some persons have an easier time activating their brown fat, or even have...
Scientists reveal new super-fast form of computer that ‘grows as it computes’
Credit: public domain
Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as...
Chiral metamaterial produces record optical shift under incremental power modulation
Laser light shows the nanopatterned structure of a chiral metamaterial developed by researchers in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia...
NuSTAR Helps Find Universe’s Brightest Pulsars
NGC 5907 ULX is the brightest pulsar ever observed. This image comprises X-ray emission data (blue/white) from ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope and NASA's Chandra...
World’s oldest fossils unearthed
Haematite tubes from the NSB hydrothermal vent deposits that represent the oldest microfossils and evidence for life on Earth. Credit: Matthew Dodd
Remains of microorganisms...
Molecular structure of the cell nucleoskeleton revealed for the first time
The 3-D view of the nuclear lamina shows a section of the architecture of the delicate meshwork made of lamin filaments (filament rod in...
Team puts dark matter on the map
A 3-D visualization of reconstructed dark matter clump distributions in a distant galaxy cluster, obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields data. The...
Inactivity, excess weight linked to hard-to-treat heart failures
Lack of exercise and excessive weight are strongly associated with a type of heart failure that has a particularly poor prognosis. Image credit:Flickr/Sharon Sinclair
Lack...
Mathematician breaks down how to defend against quantum computing attacks
The encryption codes that safeguard internet data today won't be secure forever.
Future quantum computers may have the processing power and algorithms to crack them.
Nathan...
Optical generation of ultrasound via photoacoustic effect
This schematic illustrates how tailored surface profiles can create patterned optically generated acoustic fields in 3-D. Credit: Brown et al.
Limitations of the piezoelectric array...
