Asymmetric sound absorption lets in the light
If you've ever lived in an apartment building or stayed in a hotel room, you are probably familiar with the inconvenience of inadequate sound absorption. Acoustic absorption refers to the absorption of...
View ArticleChemists develop a promising drug synthesis method
Scientists from RUDN University with their colleagues from Yaroslavl have developed a new way to synthesize 1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives used in many drugs. 1,2,4-oxadiazoles include ataluren, the...
View ArticleResearchers greenlight gas detection at room temperature
Russian researchers have developed a mechanism for detecting molecular hydrogen using green light to illuminate a nanocrystalline composite sensor based on zinc and indium oxides. This enables a gas...
View ArticleHow quantum materials may soon make Star Trek technology reality
If you think technologies from Star Trek seem far-fetched, think again. Many of the devices from the acclaimed television series are slowly becoming a reality. While we may not be teleporting people...
View ArticleFit or miss? Retailers offer new tools to help shoppers
Stores watching Amazon take a larger share of clothing sales are trying to solve one of the most vexing issues for online shoppers: Finding items that fit properly.
View Article3-D-printed device builds better nanofibers
Meshes made from fibers with nanometer-scale diameters have a wide range of potential applications, including tissue engineering, water filtration, solar cells, and even body armor. But their...
View ArticleWave properties of particles can manifest in collisions
Dmitry Karlovets, senior researcher at the TSU Faculty of Physics, and Valery Serbo from the Institute of Mathematics of the SB RAS have shown that it is possible to observe the wave properties of...
View ArticleAugmented reality furniture and other signs we're living in the future
Liked Pokémon Go? Wait till you see what's next.
View ArticleScientists investigate how different houses and lifestyles affect which bugs...
Humans have lived under the same roof with bugs since we first began building shelters 20,000 years ago. Now, scientists are studying how physical factors of our homes—from the floor plan and the...
View ArticleChemists suggest a new way to synthesize steroid analogs
Scientists from RUDN University and the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv have found a way to produce aromatic rings in organic compounds in three stages. These stages proceed successively in...
View ArticleSulfur improves birefringence for developing liquid crystalline molecules
A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Yuki Arakawa, Toyohashi University of Technology, has successfully liquid crystallized π-conjugated rod-like molecules with alkylthio groups containing...
View ArticleResearchers achieve significant breakthrough in topological insulator-based...
Realisation of room temperature spin-orbit torque-driven magnetisation switching in topological insulator-ferromagnet heterostructures has promising applications in low power consumption and high...
View ArticleQ&A about the toughness of NASA's webb telescope
Just how resilient does a space telescope have to be to survive both Earth's environment and the frigid, airless environment of space? Paul Geithner, the deputy project manager – technical for James...
View ArticleStrongly anisotropic spin relaxation observed in graphene
Researchers of the ICN2 Physics and Engineering of Nanodevices Group, led by ICREA Prof. Sergio O. Valenzuela, have unambiguously demonstrated the anisotropic nature of spin relaxation in graphene when...
View ArticleSpontaneous Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons
Excitons are pairs of electrons and holes inside a solid material that together behave like a single particle. It has long been suspected that when many such excitons exist in the same piece of matter,...
View ArticlePhysicists found the temperature at which carbon nanotubes become...
Scientists from Ural Federal University (UrFU) together with their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University, have discovered a mathematical method to calculate the temperature at which...
View ArticleA type of semi-transparent polymer that can be mended at room temperature...
A small team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has created a polymer that can be repaired when broken into two parts by applying a small amount of pressure at room temperature. In their paper...
View ArticleAIM, aka AOL Instant Messenger, dead at 20
AOL's Instant Messenger service was finally erased from the internet Friday after the company made the announcement in October that Dec. 15 would be the chat platform's last day on Earth.
View ArticleBedbug tips for holiday travelers
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologists say a few simple practices can help holiday travelers deal with bedbug infestations and avoid spreading the pest.
View ArticleResearchers develop highly sensitive gas sensors
A team from the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University has suggested using porous silicon nanowire arrays in highly sensitive gas sensors. These devices will be able to detect the...
View ArticleRoom-temperature multiferroic thin films and their properties
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Tohoku University have developed high-quality GFO epitaxial films and systematically investigated their ferroelectric and ferromagnetic...
View ArticleLas Vegas hotels bet on technology to attract, dazzle guests
It takes just minutes for a room service attendant to respond to a text message asking for a soda, bringing the Diet Coke on a tray with a glass of ice and lime wedges, no need for the modern hassle of...
View ArticleNew metal-semiconductor interface for brain-inspired computing
One of the big challenges in computer architecture is integrating storage, memory and processing in one unit. This would make computers faster and more energy efficient. University of Groningen...
View ArticleNanoparticle gel controls twisted light with magnetism
"Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." For many of those around at the release of Star Wars in 1977, that scene was a first introduction to holograms—a real technology that had been around for...
View ArticleToxin in centipede venom identified
A team of researchers from several institutions in China has identified the toxin in golden head centipede venom. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group...
View ArticleBiomarker tests could someday help improve outcomes for organ transplant...
Organ transplants save lives, but the story doesn't end when a patient emerges from the operating room. Rejection episodes, in which the immune system rallies against the new organ, can occur....
View ArticleCreating an electron-hole liquid at room temperature
Making a liquid out of electrons is complicated, but it opens the door to research in a wide variety of electronics. NC State physicists have created a phase diagram that can help researchers create...
View ArticleA revolutionary material for aerospace and neuromorphic computing
First came the switch. Then the transistor. Now another innovation stands to revolutionize the way we control the flow of electrons through a circuit: vanadium dioxide (VO2). A key characteristic of...
View ArticleScientists successfully test new, safer titanium plate for bone tissue repair
For the first time, patented titanium fiber plates developed by Japanese engineers for medical use have been tested in an animal model. Researchers from Shinshu University found that, unlike...
View ArticleNew silicon chip for helping build quantum computers and securing our...
Researchers at the University of Bristol's Quantum Engineering Technology Labs have demonstrated a new type of silicon chip that can help building and testing quantum computers and could find their way...
View Article
