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New Lithium Battery Charges Faster, Reduces Risk Of Device Explosions
Cell phone batteries often heat up, and at times can even burst into flames. In most cases, the culprit behind such incidents can be traced back to lithium batteries. Despite...
MIT team collaborates with 3M to develop rapid Covid-19 test
Hadley Sikes, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT, has been working for years with her team on the technology they’re adapting to create a Covid-19 test with rapid results....
String of firsts in forensic proteomics for ricin detection
As the first author of her first publication, Isabelle O'Bryon developed the first forensic proteomics method to more quickly detect ricin, a lethal toxin that is often crudely made in...
New organic material unlocks faster electronic devices
Mobile phones and other electronic devices made from an organic material that is thin, bendable and more powerful are now a step closer thanks to new research led by scientists...
Sensor for non-spoofable biometric identification easily integrated in smart phones
Holst Center has demonstrated the world's first organic near-infrared large-area image sensor capable of detecting the unique pattern of veins in a person's hand via reflected light. The sensor opens...
Spray-drying to produce new materials in industrial applications
Spray drying is an industrial technique based on the atomization of a solution into aerosol droplets that in turn are evaporated to produce a powder (dried particles). This technique is...
Machine Learning Helps Robot Swarms Coordinate
Engineers at Caltech have designed a new data-driven method to control the movement of multiple robots through cluttered, unmapped spaces, so they do not run into one another. Multi-robot motion...
Solar cell material performs better under pressure
Solar cells produced from a combination of silicon and perovskite—especially the variant with mixed halides such as iodine and bromine—can be more efficient and cheaper than traditional silicon solar cells...
Researchers report 3-D printed latex rubber breakthrough
Virginia Tech researchers have discovered a novel process to 3-D print latex rubber, unlocking the ability to print a variety of elastic materials with complex geometric shapes.
Orlando SC becomes first team to clinch spot in MLS Is Back knockout round
Orlando SC became the first team to clinch a spot in the round of 16 in the MLS Is Back Tournament after a 3-1 group-stage triumph over New York City...
Researchers develop dielectrophoretic tweezers for toxic nanoparticles
A Korean research team has developed a technology that enables the effective control of fine particulate matter and nanoplastics, which are major causes of human toxicity and ecosystem disturbances. This...
A new strategy to synthesize 2-D inorganic materials used in capacitors, batteries, and composites
Surface functional groups in two dimensional (2-D) transition-metal carbides can undergo versatile chemical transformations to facilitate a broad class of MXene materials. In a new report on Science, Vladislav Kamysbayev,...
New Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Beasley leaves NBA bubble after positive test
Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Beasley, who recently signed with the team, has left the NBA's bubble at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla.
What's open and closed this week in Las Vegas
Las Vegas continues to reopen the Strip and downtown amid COVID-19 pandemic.
Boeing awarded $1.2B deal for 8 F-15EX fighter jets
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $1.2 billion contract -- with a ceiling of nearly $23 billion -- to build the first lot of eight F-15EX fighter jets.
Telluride Film Festival cancells 2020 fest
The Telluride Film Festival announced Tuesday that the 2020 fest is cancelled, after attempting to program a socially distanced edition in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Physicists introduce novel mechanism for electron optics in solid-state systems
Electrons can interfere in the same manner as water, acoustical or light waves do. When exploited in solid-state materials, such effects promise novel functionality for electronic devices, in which elements...
Innovative catalytic reaction for low-cost synthesis of aromatic esters
Aromatic esters are chemicals that contain an aromatic ring consisting of functional groups called esters. These organic compounds are widely used as chemical feedstock in industries like food and beverages,...
MIT team collaborates with 3M to develop rapid Covid-19 test
Hadley Sikes, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT, has been working for years with her team on the technology they’re adapting to create a Covid-19 test with rapid results. Moving beyond...
Vision scientists discover why people literally don't see eye to eye
We humans may not always see eye to eye on politics, religion, sports and other matters of debate. And now it turns out we also cannot agree on the location...
A new path for electron optics in solid-state systems
In combined theoretical and experimental work, physicists introduce and demonstrate a novel mechanism for electron optics in two-dimensional solid-state systems. The discovery opens up a route to engineering quantum-optical phenomena...
Quantum body scanner? What happens when vector vortex beams meet scattering media
Propagate light through any kind of medium -- be it free space or biological tissue -- and light will scatter. Robustness to scattering is a common requirement for communications and...
Road trip! Boost your phone battery on-the-go with this solar-powered charger
4-Panel Foldable Solar Phone Charger & 10,000mAh Power Bank (Stack Commerce/)Nothing brings down a great adventure like your smartphone flashing the perilous "low battery" alert.Wasn’t it just 95 percent an hour ago? Sure...
Imaging of sequential potential distribution changes in electrodes during charge/discharge
NIMS has succeeded for the first time in visualizing sequential changes in electrical potential distribution across a composite electrode during charge/discharge reactions in all-solid-state lithium ion batteries. This distribution was...
Artificial 'neurotransistor' created
While the optimization of conventional microelectronics is slowly reaching its physical limits, nature offers us a blueprint how information can be processed and stored efficiently: our own brain. Scientists have...
HBO Max orders sketch comedy series starring Michael Che
HBO Max announced on Tuesday that it has ordered an original sketch comedy series featuring Michael Che.
Underused part of the electromagnetic spectrum gets optics boost from metamaterial
Terahertz radiation, or T-rays, has barely been exploited compared to most of the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum. Yet T-rays potentially have applications in next-generation wireless communications (6G/7G), security systems,...
Tale of the tape: Sticky bits make better batteries
Where things get sticky happens to be where interesting science happens in a Rice University lab working to improve battery technology.