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Jellyfish-inspired electronic skin glows when it gets hurt

Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)

Now researchers report in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces the development of a jellyfish-inspired electronic skin that glows when the pressure against it i...

Novel technique reveals the intricate beauty of a cracked glass

Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)

Now there is a way around this problem. Replacing hard glass with soft but brittle gels makes it possible to slow down the cracks that precipitate fracture to m...

System could let thousands of researchers contribute to data analysis projects

Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)

MIT researchers have developed a new collaboration tool, dubbed FeatureHub, intended to make feature identification more efficient and effective. With FeatureHu...

How to store information in your clothes invisibly, without electronics

Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)

The UW computer scientists have created fabrics and fashion accessories that can store data - from security codes to identification tags - without needing any o...

Liquids take a shine to terahertz radiation

Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)

The search for new and brighter radiation sources is an enduring quest in science and technology. While there are many sources across the entire electromagnetic...

Voltage-driven liquid metal fractals

Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)

Surface tension is the force exerted by the surface of a liquid that causes it to "bead up" or form droplets. Water, for example, has a high surface tension, so...

The world's shortest laser pulse

Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)

Molecules rotate in the range of picoseconds (10-12 s), their atoms vibrate in the range of femtoseconds (10?15 s), and the electrons move in the range of attos...

Making glass invisible

Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)

Now, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory...

3-D-printed device builds better nanofibers

Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)

In the latest issue of the journal Nanotechnology, MIT researchers describe a new device for producing nanofiber meshes, which matches the production rate and p...

'Tensor algebra' software speeds big-data analysis 100-fold

Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)

With sparse data, analytic algorithms end up doing a lot of addition and multiplication by zero, which is wasted computation. Programmers get around this by wri...

Guiding the random laser

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

So, how do you control some of the randomness to make useful devices? It's a question that's led a team of researchers at The University of New Mexico to a disc...

Small droplets are a surprise: They disappear more slowly than they 'should'

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

This applies not only to water but also to other liquids: it turns out that very small droplets evaporate more slowly than predicted by current models! Research...

Radio Pollution Creates Space Shield for Satellites

Oct 31, 2017 (VOA)

"This can range from little chips of paint all the way up to spent rocket bodies and things like that," said Dan Baker, director of the Laboratory of Atmosphere...

Nanoscale textures make glass invisible

Oct 29, 2017 (UPI)

Under most light conditions, glass gives its presence away with a slightly glare. Glare is helpful when you're trying to avoid a sliding glass door, but it can ...

Raytheon awarded $1.5B contract for radar systems

Oct 29, 2017 (UPI)

The contract between the MDA and Raytheon calls for the defense contractor to provide operations and sustainment for the Army Navy Transportable Radar Surveilla...

A quantum spin liquid

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

The first-of-its-kind copper iridate metal oxide - Cu2IrO3 - is one where the natural magnetic order is disrupted, a state known as geometric frustration, said ...

New property found in unusual crystalline materials

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

When the boundaries between the grains are of a particular type, called a coherent twin boundary (CTB), this adds useful properties to certain materials, especi...

Selective memory makes data caches 50 percent more efficient

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

As processors' transistor counts have gone up, the relatively slow connection between the processor and main memory has become the chief impediment to improving...

Laser beams for superconductivity

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

It is well known that this compound, with the chemical formula K3C60, can behave as a superconductor - that is, conduct without dissipating energy - below a cri...

Understanding how electrons turn to glass

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

The ability of some liquids to transition into glass has been exploited since ancient times. But many fundamental aspects of this transition phase are far from ...