MIT chemists have now developed a 3-D printing technique that allows them to print objects and then go back and add new polymers that alter the materials’ chemical composition and mechanical properties. These new polymers can be reactivated by...
Researchers found that smart watches and other personal biosensor devices can help flag when people have colds and even signal the onset of complex conditions like Lyme disease and diabetes. Image Credit:Flickr/intelfreepress
Can your smart watch detect when you are...
Image analysis technology developed by Francesco Cutrale and Scott Fraser of USC's Translational Imaging Center improves complex imaging of biomolecules such as those seen in this zebra fish embryo. Image courtesy of Francesco Cutrale.
A new image analysis technique makes...
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Here's how to build a whirligig: Thread a loop of twine through two holes in a button. Grab the loop ends, then rhythmically pull. As the twine coils and uncoils, the button spins at a dizzying speed.
Now,...
MapD is a type of commonly used database-management system modified to run on GPUs instead of CPUs, which power most traditional database-management systems. MapD can process billions of data points in milliseconds, making it 100 times faster than those...
How the new technology is used, and how it processes information. Credit: Fujitsu
Fujitsu Laboratories has announced development of the world's first slide-style palm vein authentication technology. This technology is compact enough to be equipped to future tablets and other...
Researchers created an optomechanical silicon bullseye disk that traps optical waves in the outermost ring via total internal reflection while the radial groves confine the mechanical waves to the same area. Credit: Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, University of Campinas
Researchers...
“There’s a close correspondence between what you need for communication in rapidly changing networks and information processing in the brain,” professor Nancy Lynch says. “We’re trying to find problems that can benefit from this distributed-computing perspective, focusing on algorithms...
Animation of negative differential resistance. Credit: University of Alberta
With a storied history that includes more than a half-century of research, a Nobel Prize, and multiple attempts at practical applications, the story of negative differential resistance—or NDR—reads like a scientific...
Duke University chemists have found that silver nanowire films like these conduct electricity well enough to form functioning circuits without applying high temperatures, enabling printable electronics on heat-sensitive materials like paper or plastic.Credit: Ian Stewart and Benjamin Wiley
By suspending...
ReRAM computing circuit. Credit: Nanyang Technological University
A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors like those made by Intel and Qualcomm.
This means data could...
