TUM researchers (l-r) Fabian Steiner, Georg Böcherer, and Patrick Schulte with the statue of Claude Shannon, father of information theory.Credit: Denise Panyik-Dale/Alcatel-Lucent
Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have achieved unprecedented transmission capacity...
Potential applications for on-body transmissions include securely sending information to door locks, glucose sensors or other wearable medical devices.Credit: Vikram Iyer, University of Washington
Sending a password or secret code over airborne radio waves like WiFi or Bluetooth means anyone...
University of Vermont doctoral student Morgan Cousins holds up a sample of a solution of strange rotor molecules made from boron-based dye. Led by UVM chemistry professor Matt Liptak (on left), she was part of a team that tested...
Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Whether for use in safe data encryption, ultrafast calculation of huge data volumes or so-called quantum simulation of highly complex systems: Optical quantum computers are a source of hope for tomorrow's computer technology. For the...
Dr Geoff Campbell and Mr Jesse Everett. Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU
Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.
Lead researcher Jesse Everett said controlling the...
Magnetic cilia and tentacles: with tiny silicone strips, which are equipped with magnetic particles, robots can be moved by an external magnetic field in a similar manner as jellyfish, bacteria, or sperm.© Phil Loubere
Soft materials that can use magnetic...
Researchers in Uruguay have developed an evolutionary algorithm to allow a smart city to facilitate efficient taxi sharing to cut an individual's transport costs as well as reduce congestion and traffic pollution. Details are outlined in theInternational Journal of...
(Credit: National University of Singapore)
A microfluidic chip invented by engineers from NUS and start-up Clearbridge mFluidics is a world’s first in using microfluidic flow to isolate selected tumour cells for single cell analysis — giving accurate assessment of the...
Credit: University of Toronto
The new map breaks away from the old way of studying genes one at a time, showing how genes interact in groups to shed light on the genetic roots of diseases.
Researchers at the University of Toronto's...
A nanoparticle-based drug delivery system that can sense and respond to different conditions in the body, as well as to an externally applied magnetic field, could enhance doctors' ability to target drugs to specific sites of disease.
Singapore's Agency for...
Barclay's group used diamond to make their microdisk, which looks like a microscopic-sized hockey puck (the optical cavity) supported by a very tiny hourglass-shaped pillar in the centre. The group used light to vibrate the disk to a gigahertz...
