This stylized rendering of the cross-section of the metallic hybrid nanocavity coupled to a quantum dot shows vertical emission into free space. Credit: Yousif Kelaita, Stanford University
Researchers have developed a new type of light-enhancing optical cavity that is only...
This image shows the fabrication steps from raw circular filament to a fully functional bending artificial muscle. The bottom filament is a raw circular filament. Researchers press the filament using a rolling mill (the second sample from the bottom)....
A Hoaxy search reveals articles that claim cannabis cures cancer. The graph on the left shows the rise in these claims over the past five months. The graph on the right shows the claim's spread on social media. Credit:...
Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have created a bacteria-powered battery on a single sheet of paper that can power disposable electronics.Credit: Seokheun
Instead of ordering batteries by the pack, we might get them by the ream...
Harvard researchers used mathematical modeling to optimize the design of an actuator to perform biologically inspired motions. Credit: Harvard SEAS
Designing a soft robot to move organically—to bend like a finger or twist like a wrist—has always been a process...
The researchers’ neural network was fed video from 26 terabytes of video data downloaded from the photo-sharing site Flickr. Researchers found the network can interpret natural sounds in terms of image categories. For instance, the network might determine that...
Dan Tamayo is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Planetary Science at U of T Scarborough.Credit: Photo by Ken Jones
Same class of algorithms used by Google and Netflix can also tell us if distant planetary systems are stable...
Christine Hendon’s laboratory has developed automated algorithms to analyze fiber organization within various organ structures, including the heart and cervix (shown).Credit: Christine Hendon/Columbia Engineering
As imaging and sensing technologies grow in both sophistication and accessibility, they do more than just...
Salto, for saltatorial locomotion on terrain obstacles, is shown.Credit: Stephen McNally
Roboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row,...
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
A drone has been equipped with feathers to increase its precision during flight. The bio-inspired device can spread or close its wings while flying, making it easier to maneuver and more resistant in high...
A new technique devised by MIT researchers can take data sets with huge numbers of variables and find approximations of them with far fewer variables.Image Credit: MIT
Technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental mathematical relationships.
One way to handle...
