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Whiteboards of the Future: New Electronic Paper Could Make Inexpensive Electronic Displays

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays like whiteboards. They describe […]

Printing Silicon on Paper, with Lasers

WASHINGTON, DC, April 21, 2015 — In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find the next best thing to […]

Nondestructive 3-D Imaging of Biological Cells with Sound

WASHINGTON D.C., April 20, 2015 — Much like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is able to scan the interior of the human body, the emerging technique of “picosecond […]

Detecting Cryptosporidium in China

WASHINGTON, DC, April 14, 2015 — For a healthy individual, an infection of Cryptosporidium parvum may mean nothing more than a few days of bad diarrhea. For […]

Harvesting Energy from Electromagnetic Waves

WASHINGTON D.C., April 14, 2015 – For our modern, technologically-advanced society, in which technology has become the solution to a myriad of challenges, energy is critical not […]

The Microscopic Topography of Ink on Paper

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2015 – A team of Finnish scientists has found a new way to examine the ancient art of putting ink to paper in […]

Carbon Nanotube Computing?

WASHINGTON D.C., April 7, 2015 – As we approach the miniaturization limits of conventional electronics, alternatives to silicon-based transistors—the building blocks of the multitude of electronic devices […]

Future Electronics Based on Carbon Nanotubes

WASHINGTON D.C., April 7, 2015 – The exceptional properties of tiny molecular cylinders known as carbon nanotubes have tantalized researchers for years because of the possibility they […]

Soft, Energy-Efficient Robotic Wings

Washington, D.C., March 31, 2015 — Dielectric elastomers are novel materials for making actuators or motors with soft and lightweight properties that can undergo large active deformations […]