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Researchers Create Smallest Transistor Ever
For more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the race to shrink the size of components in integrated circuits. They knew that the laws of physics had set a 5-nanometer...
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T-rays Will “Speed Up” Computer Memory By a Factor of 1,000
Together with their colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands, scientists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have found a way to significantly...
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World's 'Smallest Magnifying Glass' Supports New Sensors
Using tiny particles of gold, researchers from the University of Cambridge have concentrated light to smaller than a single atom. By focusing the light to just under a millionth of a meter, the scientists have a "magnifying glass" that reveals individual chemical bonds within...
News: Imaging
Infrared Brings to Light Nanoscale Molecular Arrangement
Detailing the molecular makeup of materials – from solar cells to organic LEDs and transistors to medically important proteins – is not always a crystal-clear process. To...
News: Medical
New Catheter Lets Doctors See Inside Arteries
Removing plaque from clogged arteries is a common procedure that can save and improve lives. This treatment approach has been made safer and more effective with a high-tech catheter that...
News: Robotics, Automation & Control
Mapping Marine Snow on Sea Floor
City-sized maps of terrain and life on the sea floor have revealed that drifts of "marine snow" on submarine hillsides act as a source of food to fuel a higher biomass of marine life than on flatter...
Question of the Week: Imaging
Will virtual reality increase empathy?
This week's Question: According to a recent article in The Washington Post, a growing number of filmmakers, policymakers, researchers, human rights workers, and law enforcement officials are using virtual reality technology to make people feel as if they have experienced an event firsthand. Advocates say...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Smart Buoy Measures Water Pollutants
Extensive water monitoring is indispensable for drinking water supply and water protection. Researchers have developed a smart monitoring system that combines various technologies in a...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Ultrasensitive Sensors Keep Driverless Cars Safer
News of the first serious accident involving an automated electric vehicle made headlines recently. Researchers are counting on light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, in...
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Product of the Month: November 2016
Wolfram Research, Champaign, IL, released Mathematica 11 technical computing software that features more than 500 new functions, including improvements in machine learning, 3D printing and geometry,...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Military Sensor Inspires Instrument to Search for Life on Mars
A sensing technique used by the U.S. military currently to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens has inspired a new...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Metamaterial Structures Shrink When Heated
While most solid materials expand with heat, a new 3D-printed structure built by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers is designed to shrink. The metamaterial may enable heat-resistant circuit boards.
News: Energy
Design Contest Winner Could Save Trucking Industry Billions in Fuel Costs
New York, NY – Hyliion of Pittsburg, PA, developer of a hybrid electric technology for semi-trailers, has been awarded a grand prize of $20,000 in the 2016 "Create the Future" Design Contest. Hyliion’s system hybridizes the trailer portion of the tractor-trailer...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Thermal Metamaterial for Waste-Heat Harvesting in Power Plants and Factories
An international research team has used a thermal metamaterial to control the emission of radiation at high temperatures, an advance that could bring devices...
INSIDER: Energy
Technology Powers Implants Wirelessly Via Ultrasound
Scientists have developed a demonstrator that powers active implants wirelessly via ultrasound. Ultrasound waves have a broader range in the body, and they penetrate the implant’s...
INSIDER: Power
Renewable Energy Could Be Under Our Feet
Flooring can be made from any number of sustainable materials, making it, generally, an eco-friendly feature in homes and businesses. Now, flooring could be even more “green,” thanks to an...
Question of the Week: Aerospace
Would you use drones for home security?
This week's Question: A new home security technology called the Sunflower Home Awareness System deploys a drone to patrol one’s property. The combination of intelligent outdoor sensors and an aerial drone-based camera detects motion, vibration, and sound, and provides users with a view of the home’s...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
New Scanning Method Speeds Up 3D Printing
Penn State University researchers have used a beam deflector to increase the speed of 2D and 3D printing by up to 1000 times.
News: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Smart Threads Could Save Lives
Engineers are joining forces with designers, scientists, and doctors at Drexel University to produce new biomedical textiles, and the resulting smart clothes are not only fashionably functional but could also...
News: Medical
Microwaves Target Deep Tumors
Physicists at the University of Texas at Arlington have shown that using microwaves to activate photosensitive nanoparticles produces tissue-heating effects that ultimately lead to cell death within solid...
News: Medical
Imaging Technique With Potential For Medical Diagnostics
A unique new imaging method, called polarized nuclear imaging, combines powerful aspects of both magnetic resonance imaging and gamma-ray imaging. Developed by two physicists in the...
News: Medical
Brain Computer Interface Helps Paralyzed Man Feel Again
Imagine being in an accident that leaves you unable to feel any sensation in your arms and fingers. Now imagine regaining that sensation, a decade later, through a mind-controlled...
INSIDER: Energy
Flexible Solar Panels Absorb Diffused Light
Virginia Tech researchers have produced flexible solar panels that can become part of window shades or wallpaper. The material will capture light from the sun as well as light from sources inside buildings.
Question of the Week: Aerospace
Will we see a flying car transportation service?
This week’s Question: Ride-hailing company Uber recently released a white paper outlining its new transport service: the flying car. The company envisions a “network of small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically.” The proposal aims to use airspace to relieve transportation...
News: Medical
Laser Treatment Enables New Paper Electronics
By using lasers to treat graphene, Iowa State University researchers have found new ways to enable flexible, wearable, and low-cost electronics. Fabricating inkjet-printed, multi-layer graphene...
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Low-Power-Consumption, Single-Mode Quantum Cascade Lasers Fabricated Without Epitaxial Regrowth
Quantum cascade (QC) lasers employ intersubband electronic transitions in semiconductor quantum well structures to generate emission at specific...
Briefs: Information Technology
Common Workflow Service: A Standards-Based Process Management System
As mission operations grow in scale and complexity, there is a prevailing need for automating operational processes to increase efficiency, mitigate risks, and reduce operational costs. The need for automating operational processes has produced a few disparate automation...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A Novel Orbiting Cloud Imager System for IR/UV/X-Ray Bands
Typically, the cost of a spaceborne imaging system is driven by the size and mass of the primary aperture. Innovative solutions for imagers that are less complex and are lightweight are very desirable. Currently, telescopes such as JWST and ATLAST are very expensive and very complex.
Briefs: Aerospace
Optimum Strategies for Selecting Descent Flight-Path Angles
Efficient and safe arrival operations under challenging traffic conditions are a key objective for air transportation modernization efforts taking place throughout the world....
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