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Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

The first all-optical permanent on-chip memory has been developed by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the universities of Munster, Oxfo...

Oculus proclaims dawn of 'virtual reality era'

Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)

Facebook-owned Oculus VR wooed software makers on Thursday with the promise of a budding "virtual reality era" and an alliance with streaming television powerho...

Virtual reality stretching beyond video games

Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)

Virtual reality is a dream of video game lovers, but it is poised to blast far beyond play to education, medicine, architecture and other learning arenas. Thank...

Pioneering research develops new way to capture light - for the computers of tomorrow

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Pioneering research by an international team of scientists, including from the University of Exeter, has developed techniques that will allow the first memory c...

Laser-based molecular fingerprinting

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

A team of researchers based at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics has developed an infrared laser t...

Laser ablation boosts terahertz emission

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

From almost instantaneous wireless transfer of huge amounts of data and easy detection of explosives, weapons, or harmful gases, to safe 3-D medical imaging and...

Printing lightweight, flexible, and functional materials

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

3D printing is revolutionizing the production of lightweight structures, soft robots and flexible electronics, but the technology struggles with complex, multim...

4-D technology allows self-folding of complex objects

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Using components made from smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat, researchers have demonstrated a four-dimensional printing tec...

Laser pulses for ultrahigh molecular sensitivity, in Nature Photonics

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics Group led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Jens Biegert, in collaboration with the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics...

Insects passed 'the Turing Test'

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

In 1952, the legendary British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing proposed a model, which assumes formation of complex patterns through chemical intera...

3-D printed guide helps regrow complex nerves after injury

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

A national team of researchers has developed a first-of-its-kind, 3D-printed guide that helps regrow both the sensory and motor functions of complex nerves afte...

NASA Seeks Big Ideas from Students for Inflatable Heat Shield Technology

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

NASA is giving university and college students an opportunity to be part of the agency's journey to Mars with the Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (B...

A thermal invisibility cloak actively redirects heat

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

Light, sound, and now, heat - just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic ...

Indra renews SMOS maintenance and development contract

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

The European Space Agency has extended until 2017 the maintenance and development contract of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission user segment, ...

Acoustic imaging with outline detection

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

Reverberated sound can make objects visible. The sonar is used in the shipping industry to acquire information about the seabed or shoals of fish, while gynaeco...

De Beers says 'challenging' time for diamonds

Sep 21, 2015 (AFP)

De Beers, the world's largest diamond producer, said Monday the economic slowdown in China and a strong US dollar meant a "challenging" year for the industry, w...

Yale lab finds new ways to synthesize HIV inhibitor

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Yale University chemists have created a new process for synthesizing an organic, nitrogen-based compound that inhibits HIV. The process represents a fundamental...

Big Iron gets technology boost

Sep 18, 2015 (ESA)

ESA deploys 'big iron' to communicate with its deep-space missions: three 35 m-diameter dishes employing some of the world's most advanced tracking technology. ...

Engineers unlock remarkable 3-D vision from ordinary digital camera technology

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Modern digital cameras are equipped with an impressive array of functions - from autofocus and image stabilization to panoramas and high-definition video. Recen...

Physicists defy conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric material

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

A team of physicists has defied conventional wisdom by inducing stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick. The discov...