University of Missouri engineers are advancing the commercial market for wearable bioelectronics by developing a large-scale manufacturing plan for a customizable device capable of simultaneously…
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Data Limits Could Vanish With New Optical Antennas and “Rings of Light”
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of…
View More Data Limits Could Vanish With New Optical Antennas and “Rings of Light”Next Generation Optical Fibers With 10,000 Times Lower Backscatter
The latest generation of hollow-core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fibers, which have been pioneered in Southampton. Credit: University of Southampton Researchers from the University of Southampton…
View More Next Generation Optical Fibers With 10,000 Times Lower BackscatterNew Material Breakthrough for Stable High-Voltage Long-Life Solid-State Batteries
A team of researchers designed and manufactured a new sodium-ion conductor for solid-state sodium-ion batteries that is stable when incorporated into higher-voltage oxide cathodes. This…
View More New Material Breakthrough for Stable High-Voltage Long-Life Solid-State BatteriesJumping Frost Crystals: Electrostatic De-icing Effect Could Be a Game-Changer for Aircraft and HVAC Industries
Frost breaks off and “jumps” upward due to an electrostatic charge. Credit: Virginia Tech If you have ever gotten up on a winter morning and…
View More Jumping Frost Crystals: Electrostatic De-icing Effect Could Be a Game-Changer for Aircraft and HVAC IndustriesNew “Metalens” Shifts Focus Without Moving – Enables Miniature Zoom Lenses for Drones, Cellphones, or Night-Vision Goggles
A new MIT-fabricated metalens shifts focus without tilting, shifting, or otherwise moving. The design may enable miniature zoom lenses for drones, cellphones, or night-vision goggles.…
View More New “Metalens” Shifts Focus Without Moving – Enables Miniature Zoom Lenses for Drones, Cellphones, or Night-Vision GogglesNew Wearable Device Turns Your Body Into a Biological Battery
A thermoelectric power generator worn as a ring. Credit: Xiao Lab Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new, low-cost wearable device that transforms the human…
View More New Wearable Device Turns Your Body Into a Biological BatteryEncrypted Quantum Computing: When Ignorance Is Wanted
Quantum technologies for computers open up new concepts of preserving the privacy of input and output data of a computation. Scientists from the University of…
View More Encrypted Quantum Computing: When Ignorance Is WantedEngineers Place Thousands of Nanoscale Molecular Devices in Precise Orientation
Researchers placed more than 3,000 glowing moon-shaped nanoscale molecular devices into a flower-shaped instrument for indicating the polarization of light. The “moons” in each of…
View More Engineers Place Thousands of Nanoscale Molecular Devices in Precise OrientationElectric Vehicles Are Driven Less Often Than Policymakers Think – 1/2 As Much as Conventional Cars
By studying electricity meter measurements and electric vehicle registration records in California, researchers found that state regulators are overestimating how often people drive their EVs.…
View More Electric Vehicles Are Driven Less Often Than Policymakers Think – 1/2 As Much as Conventional Cars