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First step toward practical application of holographic memory with magnetic assist
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
In magnetic hologram recording, a medium is magnetized in one direction; then the medium is irradiated with an information-bearing beam (signal beam) and a refe...
Army taps Northrop Grumman for new radar risk reduction work
Dec 11, 2017 (UPI)
The work under the contract issued by the Army's Lower Tier Program Office, or LTPO, is intended to replace the Army's 50-year-old Patriot radars. "We are excit...
NASA Selects Three Companies to Develop 'FabLab' Prototypes
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
The selected companies are: Interlog Corporation of Anaheim, California; Techshot, Inc. of Greeneville, Indiana; and Tethers Unlimited, Inc. of Bothell, Washing...
Penn researchers establish universal signature fundamental to how glassy materials fail
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
"In order to understand how a system chooses its rearrangement scenario," said Douglas Durian, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylva...
Virtual reality makes journalism immersive, realism makes it credible
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
In a study, participants indicated that stories experienced in virtual reality - VR - significantly outperformed text-based articles in several categories, such...
Sea urchin spines inspire fracture-resistant cement
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
The research team Physical Chemistry, headed by Professor Helmut Colfen, successfully synthesised cement at the nano-level according to this "brick and mortar p...
Nature's toughest substances decoded
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
In a study that required more than 400 computer simulations of platelet-matrix composite materials like mother-of-pearl, Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsa...
Clear leads to fully transparent devices
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
Ultrathin semiconductor sheets that are composed of transition metals associated with chalcogen atoms, such as sulfur, selenium and tellurium, present exception...
Russia says 'satellite' could have caused radioactive pollution
Dec 08, 2017 (AFP)
Russia's Rosatom nuclear agency in November asked scientists at the Nuclear Safety Institute to look into the origin of "extremely high" readings of radioactive...
US has lost dominance in highly intense, ultrafast laser technology to Europe and Asia
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
The report makes five recommendations that would improve the nation's position in the field, including for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create a broad...
'Magnetoelectric' material shows promise as memory for electronics
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
Devices tend to store that information in two ways: through electric fields (think of a flash drive) or through magnetic fields (like a computer's spinning hard...
3-D-printed minifactories
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
A group of ETH researchers led by Professor Andre Studart, Head of the Laboratory for Complex Materials, has now introduced a new 3D printing platform that work...
Monopole current offers way to control magnets
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
One important property of these materials is that they have virtual monopoles - particles that are either north or south but not like typical magnets, which inv...
In first, 3-D printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
University of Washington researchers are the first to make this a reality by 3-D printing plastic objects and sensors that can collect useful data and communica...
ORNL-designed algorithm leverages Titan to create high-performing deep neural networks
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
Now, researchers are eager to apply this computational technique - commonly referred to as deep learning - to some of science's most persistent mysteries. But b...
3-D-printed prosthetic implants could improve treatment for hearing loss
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
Hearing works partly through the transmission of vibrations from the ear drum to the cochlea, the sensory organ of hearing, via three tiny bones in the middle e...
Virtual reality users must learn to use what they see
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
But strap them into a virtual reality headset, and they still may need to take a few lumps before they pay attention to the visual cues that work so well in the...
Seaweed could hold key to environmentally friendly sunscreen
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
The use of sunscreens is advocated to prevent sun damage, but most formulations contain synthetic UV radiation filters that can make their way in to water syste...
New microscope sets a record for visualizing surface wetting properties
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
Aalto University researchers have developed a measurement technique called Scanning Droplet Adhesion Microscopy (SDAM) to understand and characterize the wettin...
Borophene shines alone as 2-D plasmonic material
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
That would make the material known as borophene a candidate for plasmonic and photonic devices like biomolecule sensors, waveguides, nanoscale light harvesters ...
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