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 […]
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 […]
Funky Ferroelectric Properties Probed with X-rays
WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2014 – Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features […]
Magnetic Cooling Enables Efficient, “Green” Refrigeration
WASHINGTON D.C., June 10, 2014 – Magnetic cooling is a promising new refrigeration technology boasting several advantages – ranging from lower energy consumption to eliminating the use […]
Vanishing da Vinci
WASHINGTON D.C. June 3, 2014 — One of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpieces, drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s and widely believed to be […]
Here Come the “Brobots”
WASHINGTON D.C. June 2, 2014 — A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sperm-inspired microrobots, which […]
Device Turns Flat Surface into Spherical Antenna
WASHINGTON D.C., April 14, 2014 — By depositing an array of tiny, metallic, U-shaped structures onto a dielectric material, a team of researchers in China has created […]
Scientists Twist Sound with Metamaterials
WASHINGTON D.C. Feb. 25, 2014 — A Chinese-U.S. research team is exploring the use of metamaterials — artificial materials engineered to have exotic properties not found in […]