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Wirelessly charging electric cars as they drive
Stanford engineers have taken a big step toward making it practical for electric cars to recharge as they speed along futuristic highways built to “refuel” vehicles wirelessly. A new Stanford...
Study Reveals Single-Step Strategy For Recycling Used Nuclear Fuel
A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates. What is left behind is an assortment of...
Engineers demonstrate next-generation solar cells can take the heat, maintain efficiency
Engineers have developed a next-generation solar cell that takes advantage of the promising elctro-optical properties of perovskite materials. They've made the materials much more stable at high temperatures and demonstrated...
New Ultrafast Camera Takes 70 Trillion Pictures Per Second
Just about everyone has had the experience of blinking while having their picture taken. The camera clicks, your eyes shut, and by the time they open again, the photo is...
B1-B bombers deployed to Guam
Four B1-B Lancer bombers and 200 airmen were deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, from Texas for training operations, the U.S. Air Force announced on Monday.
Study reveals single-step strategy for recycling used nuclear fuel
A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates. What is left behind is an assortment of...
Water-splitting module a source of perpetual energy
Researchers have integrated high-efficiency solar cells and electrode catalysts into an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.
Single-crystal electrodes can speed up design of new battery systems
Scientists have created and tested a single-crystal electrode that promises to yield pivotal discoveries for advanced batteries under development worldwide.
Motorized video stabilizers that smooth out shaky shots
For steadier shots. (Marvin Meyer via Unsplash/)When Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa ran up the 72 steps outside Philadelphia’s Museum of Art, the movie’s cinematographer needed a way to follow him without the...
Scholes finds novel magnetic field effect in diamagnetic molecules
The Princeton University Department of Chemistry publishes research this week proving that an applied magnetic field will interact with the electronic structure of weakly-magnetic, or diamagnetic, molecules to induce a...
Taika Waititi to direct, co-write new 'Star Wars' film
Taika Waititi has signed on to direct and co-write a new "Star Wars" film.
U.S. Navy ships, trailed by Russia, visit Barents Sea above Arctic Circle
U.S. Navy ships on Monday entered the Barents Sea between Norway and Russia, for the first time since the 1980s, "to assert freedom of navigation and demonstrate seamless integration among...
How to put neurons into cages
Football-shaped microscale cages have been created using special laser technologies. Using sound waves as tweezers, living neurons can be placed inside these cages to study how nerve connections are being...
To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
Here's a new chapter in the story of the miniaturisation of machines: researchers in a laboratory in Singapore have shown that a single atom can function as either an engine...
Water-splitting module a source of perpetual energy
Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.
Outer tube-selectively boron-doped double-walled carbon nanotubes for thermoelectric applications
Carbon nanotubes, the tiny hollow tube of hexagonal carbon lattices has been touted as one of the most promising materials for building items with fascinating electrical, thermal and mechanical properties....
Study highlights gallium oxide's promise for next generation radiation detectors
New research from North Carolina State University finds that radiation detectors making use of single-crystal gallium oxide allow for monitoring X-ray radiation in near-real time.
How new materials increase the efficiency of direct ethanol fuel cells
Ethanol has five times higher volumetric energy density (6.7 kWh/L) than hydrogen (1.3 kWh/L) and can be used safely in fuel cells for power generation. In Brazil in particular there...
Breakthrough in molecular machines
Molecular machines have the potential to revolutionize the future -- if we can find a way to control them. Researchers now report that they have found a way to control...
Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18
For the first time, labs around the world can 3D print their own precision microscopes, thanks to a new open-source design.
Technique could enable cheaper fertilizer production
Most of the world’s fertilizer is produced in large manufacturing plants, which require huge amounts of energy to generate the high temperatures and pressures needed to combine nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia. MIT...
Talia Shire on 'Rocky,' 'Godfather' and Brando's 'great acting charisma'
Talia Shire has a new release, 'Working Man,' that she calls a powerful film that 'spoke to my soul.'
Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18
For the first time, labs around the world can 3-D print their own precision microscopes to analyse samples and detect diseases, thanks to an open-source design created at the University...
Seaweed may become a profitable piece in the green transition jigsaw
A unanimous group of research scientists are convinced that kelp may share many of the applications of soya and oil, and that they can also be used to capture CO2....
Biofabrication: 3-D printing, sonic tweezers, and the creation of neurons in microscopic cages
Microscopically small cages have been produced at TU Wien (Vienna) with grid openings only a few micrometers in size, making them ideal for holding cells and allowing living tissue to...
Exciton resonance tuning of an atomically thin lens
Since the development of diffractive optical elements in the 1970s, researchers have increasingly uncovered sophisticated fundamental principles of optics to replace the existing bulky optical elements with thin and lightweight...
Refueling fighter jets mid-flight is complex, but new tech from Airbus could simplify the process
An F/A-18 Hornet uses a "probe-and-drogue" system for refueling in 2016. (Lance Cpl. Miguel A. Rosales / US Marine Corps/)Imagine filling your car with gasoline as you’re cruising down the highway. Oh, and...
Scientists use phononic crystals to make dynamic acoustic tweezers
Acoustic tweezers are a powerful tool for contactless manipulation of particles and cells using acoustic radiation forces (ARF) generated by the transfer of acoustic wave momentum. They play an important...