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A New Multi-Bit ‘Spin’ for MRAM Storage

WASHINGTON D.C., July 22, 2014 — Interest in magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is escalating, thanks to demand for fast, low-cost, nonvolatile, low-consumption, secure memory devices. MRAM, […]

New Materials for Future Green Tech Devices

WASHINGTON D.C., July 15, 2014 — From your hot car to your warm laptop, every machine and device in your life wastes a lot of energy through […]

Directly Visualizing Hydrogen Bonds

WASHINGTON D.C., July 15, 2014 – Using a newly developed, ultrafast femtosecond infrared light source, chemists at the University of Chicago have been able to directly visualize […]

Bringing the Bling to Antibacterials

WASHINGTON D.C., July 1, 2014 – Bacteria love to colonize surfaces inside your body, but they have a hard time getting past your rugged, salty skin. Surgeries to implant […]

Reigning in Chaos in Particle Colliders Yields Big Results

WASHINGTON D.C., June 30, 2014 – When beams with trillions of particles go zipping around at near light speed, there’s bound to be some chaos. Limiting that […]

New Technology: The Goose Bump Sensor

WASHINGTON D.C., June 24, 2014 – Can emotional states be measured quantitatively, and if so what would advertising, manufacturing and social media companies do with that data? […]

Ghost Writing the Whip

WASHINGTON D.C., June 24, 2014 – “Ghost imaging” sounds like the spooky stuff of frivolous fiction, but it’s an established technique for reconstructing hi-res images of objects […]

Ultra-Thin Wires for Quantum Computing

WASHINGTON D.C., June 17, 2014 – Take a fine strand of silica fiber, attach it at each end to a slow-turning motor, gently torture it over an […]

Swell New Sensors

WASHINGTON D.C., June 17, 2014 – Using microscopic polymer light resonators that expand in the presence of specific gases, researchers at MIT’s Quantum Photonics Laboratory have developed […]