June 28, 2022 — A chemical compound discovered in 2019 in Fairbanks' wintertime air accounts for a significant portion of the community's fine particulate pollution, according to new research that seeks ...
June 28, 2022 — Scientists reveal their development of a new type of prosthetic using microfluidics-enabled soft robotics that promises to greatly reduce skin ulcerations and pain in patients who have had an ...
June 27, 2022 — Testing the longevity of new electric vehicle battery designs could be four times faster with a streamlined approach, researchers have ...
June 27, 2022 — Engineers have successfully developed a novel Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) meta-lens which can generate and focus the VUV light, a disruptive technology for the UV optics ...
June 27, 2022 — Stacking solar cells increases their efficiency. Researchers have now produced perovskite/CIS tandem solar cells with an efficiency of nearly 25 percent -- the highest value achieved thus far with ...
June 27, 2022 — Researchers have developed a virtual robotic limb system which can be operated by users' feet in a virtual environment as extra, or supernumerary, limbs. After training, users reported feeling ...
June 27, 2022 — An original approach to mass-producing low-cost solar cell foundation blocks could lead to the wide adoption of solar panels made from perovskite ink -- a 'miracle material' -- according to ...
June 27, 2022 — Researchers have demonstrated an improved version of impedance cytometry that uses four frequencies of applied AC voltage to measure the size and shape of individual microorganisms. By ensuring that ...
June 27, 2022 — Researchers have developed a simple, yet effective approach for on-demand tactile sensing in minimally-invasive surgery, overcoming a key limitation -- the inability of surgeons to 'feel' ...
June 24, 2022 — For decades, field-effect transistors enabled by silicon-based semiconductors have powered the electronics revolution. But in recent years, manufacturers have come up against hard physical limits to ...
June 24, 2022 — A research group has explored the potential production of micro-scale organic electronics for use in bioelectronics via multiphoton 3-D ...
June 24, 2022 — Over the last two decades, microscopy has seen unprecedented advances in speed and resolution. However, cellular structures are essentially three-dimensional, and conventional super-resolution ...
June 24, 2022 — Researchers have made a new discovery on how light behaves in complex media, media that tends to distort light significantly. They demonstrated that 'distortion' is a matter of perspective, ...
June 24, 2022 — Fine-tuning the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon used in technologies such as solar cells and image sensors should become much easier thanks to the computational topology and ...
June 24, 2022 — Communication networks need nodes at which information is processed or rerouted. Physicists have now developed a network node for quantum communication networks that can store single photons in a ...
June 24, 2022 — Researchers created a special ultrathin sensor, spun from gold, that can be attached directly to the skin without irritation or discomfort. The sensor can measure different biomarkers or substances ...
June 23, 2022 — Scientists create the first boron nitride nanotube fibers using the custom wet-spinning process they developed to make carbon nanotube ...
June 23, 2022 — Researchers are creating patient-specific 3D-printed smart metamaterial implants that double as sensors to monitor spinal ...
June 23, 2022 — Researchers unexpectedly discovered that the ability for spirals to form in nature also happens in some non-biological systems that convert chemical energy into mechanical action -- allowing ...
June 23, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new ultra-thin film that can create detailed 3D images viewable under normal illumination without any special reading devices. The images appear to float on top of the ...