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“Lead magnesium niobate (PMN) is a prototypical “relaxor” material, used in a wide variety of applications, from ultrasound to sonar. Researchers have now used state-of-the-art microscopy techniques to see exactly how atoms are arranged in PMN – and it’s not …
“Immune cells hold their memory of how to respond to allergens in a surprising way. Understanding how the immune system remembers allergy-causing antigens could help prevent severe reactions. When a predisposed person is initially exposed to an allergy-causing antigen, specific …
“Scientists at Waseda University may have come a step closer to innovating soft robots to care for people. Its material, however, is something you may have never expected. They have developed robotic crystals that walk slowly like an inchworm and …
News IBM Reveals a Novel Energy-saving Optical Receiver with a new Record of Rapid Power-on/off Time
“New NRZ optical receiver opens doors for the next-generation green, larger-capacity optical interconnect systems SAN DIEGO — With the increasing popularization of datacenters and other bandwidth hungry interconnect applications, today’s bandwidth growth of short-distance optical networks demands data transmission speeds …
“A company that aims to build big structures in space has just set a record here on Earth. California-based Made In Space earned a Guinness World Record for “World’s Longest 3D Printed Nonassembled Piece,” company representatives announced Thursday (Feb …
“Since the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals in June of 2015, roboticists at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have been working to improve the capabilities of their custom made humanoid disaster robot, WALK-MAN. WALK-MAN is part of a …
“Colossal magnetoresistance at terahertz frequencies in thin composites boosts novel memory devices operated at extremely high speed. Electronics could work faster if they could read and write data at terahertz frequency, rather than at a few gigahertz. Creating such devices …
“New finding suggests differences in how humans and bacteria control production of DNA’s building blocks. Using a state-of-the-art type of electron microscopy, an MIT-led team has discovered the structure of an enzyme that is crucial for maintaining an …
“Researchers from Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton will use bio-inspired algorithms and machine learning to develop fault-tolerant robotic swarms in a new scheme funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Assistant Professor …
News Supercomputers aid discovery of new, inexpensive material to make LEDs with excellent color quality
“A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has used data mining and computational tools to discover a new phosphor material for white LEDs that is inexpensive and easy to make. Researchers built prototype white LED …