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Scientists model anti-reflective surfaces after cicada wings
Oct 11, 2016 (UPI)
A team of researchers from China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently developed a new class of anti-reflective materials using nanostructures derived from t...
French-Japanese laboratory to study materials under extreme conditions
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
To strengthen their collaboration in materials science and engineering, the CNRS, Universite de Lyon, and Tohoku University are launching an international joint...
Solving a cryptic puzzle with a little help from a hologram
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
A recent discovery published in Nature Physics provides an innovative technique for calculating the shapes of electrons. This finding will help scientists gain ...
Study eyes radiation of everyday objects
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Most people assume all radioactive materials are dangerous, if not deadly. But a new study on the radiation emitted by everyday objects highlights the fact that...
Big data processing enables worldwide bacterial analysis
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Sequencing data from biological samples such as the skin, intestinal tissues, or soil and water are usually archived in public databases. This allows researcher...
Small droplets feel the vibe
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers at the University of Bristol have used ultrasonic forces to accurately pattern thousands of microscopic water-based droplets. Each droplet...
Brothers behind Ubisoft locked in real-life battle for control
Oct 09, 2016 (AFP)
Nothing in the farming background of the Guillemot brothers, who hail from the remote Brittany region, destined them to one day do battle with France's most fea...
NASA Offers Prize Money for Winning 3D-Printed Habitat Ideas
Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)
NASA is offering $1.1 million in prize money in Phase 2 of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge for new ways to build houses where future space explorers can live a...
Facebook's Oculus pushes virtual reality with new gear
Oct 07, 2016 (AFP)
Facebook on Thursday worked to ramp up enthusiasm for its virtual reality line, unveiling new gear including a lower-end wireless headset prototype. The company...
Large volumes of data from ITER transferred to Japan at unprecedented speeds
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
The National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), as the implementing agency of the BA activities, in collaboration with the Na...
New Oculus gear to help Facebook push virtual reality
Oct 06, 2016 (AFP)
Facebook on Thursday unveiled new hardware for its Oculus division as part of a stepped-up effort to integrate virtual reality with the leading social network. ...
MIT engineers design beaver-inspired wetsuit material
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
Beavers and sea otters lack the thick layer of blubber that insulates walruses and whales. And yet these small, semiaquatic mammals can keep warm and even dry w...
Lowering the heat makes new materials possible while saving energy
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
A new technology developed by Penn State researchers, called cold sintering process (CSP), opens a window on the ability to combine incompatible materials, such...
Physicists 'dissolve' water in an emerald
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from MIPT and several research teams working in Russia and other European countries have been the first to reliably realize and document the phenomen...
Scientists closer to creating 3D computer model of a cell
Oct 05, 2016 (UPI)
The creation of 3D computer model of a human cell would be a monumental breakthrough for biological research and medical science. According to a new study, adva...
Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Oct 05, 2016 (SPX)
When one type of an oxide structure called perovskite is exposed to both water vapor and streams of electrons, it exhibits behavior that researchers had never a...
Virtual reality helps net last Auschwitz criminals
Oct 05, 2016 (AFP)
Slipping on a virtual reality headset, the indelible images come into view: the steel rails, the imposing brick gatehouse, the rows of identical barracks, the g...
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientists who made molecular machines
Oct 05, 2016 (UPI)
Three scientists whose independent work led to the development of molecular machines with controllable movement won the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry, the organ...
Study yields new knowledge about materials for ultrasound and other uses
Oct 05, 2016 (SPX)
The lighter wand for your gas BBQ, a submarine's sonar device and the ultrasound machine at your doctor's office all rely on piezoelectric materials, which turn...
Color-changing smart material sensor to alert user to get out of sun
Oct 04, 2016 (SPX)
According to the American Cancer Society approximately 5.4 million basal and squamous cell skin cancers are diagnosed each year. Yet, the sun does contribute to...
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