New soft, mechanical metamaterials can “think” about how forces are applied to it and respond via preprogrammed reactions. Credit: Elizabeth Flores-Gomez Murray/ Penn State New…
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Experimental setup similar to the one the researchers have used. Credit: Thor Balkhed It may be possible in the future to use information technology where…
Integrated silicon nitride photonic chips with meter-long spiral waveguides. Credit: Jijun He, Junqiu Liu (EPFL) Encoding information into light, and transmitting it through optical fibers…
An international team of researchers, led by Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professor in the Penn State Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics,…
Insects’ remarkable acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard…
Researchers Develop Speedier Network Analysis to Boost Recommendation Algorithms and Internet Search
MIT researchers developed software to more efficiently run graph applications on a range of computing hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs.Credit: Istockphoto images edited by…
The material behaves as if magnetic monopoles were present. Credit: TU Wien Surprise in solid-state physics: The Hall effect, which normally requires magnetic fields, can…
OLED tattoo devices. Credit: Barsotti – Italian Institute of Technology Scientists at UCL and the IIT -Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) have…
Formation of moiré pattern by two honeycomb lattices. Credit: Microwave Nano-Electronics Lab, UC Riverside UC Riverside-led study observed unexpected insulating phases by placing electrons on…
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…
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…
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…
Fabricating nanoelectronic circuits of the future just got a lot more interesting, thanks to DNA origami. The quest for ever-smaller electronic components led an international…
A prototype backpack harvests energy from walking to power small electronics, and it makes loads feel lighter. Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c07498…
Artist’s representation of the nanoscopic structure of a new ferroelectric material developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. Blue and gold dots represent the boron and…
The researchers used ultrashort laser pulse excitation to optically stimulate specific atomic vibrations of the magnet’s crystal lattice. Credit: Lancaster University Fast and energy-efficient future…
A close-up depiction of the new fiber-free optical WiFi antenna. Silver nanocubes are spaced just a few nanometers above a silver base, with fluorescent dyes…
Thermoelectric materials will allow the efficient conversion of waste industrial heat into electricity. But to create effective thermoelectric materials, their underlying physics must be well…
Water droplet contact angle dramatically increases lasing emissions, from Qiao et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.3.1.016003. Credit: Qiao et al. Lasing mechanism at the surface of water…
Research represents a major step forward in achieving new therapies for a whole host of neurological and mental disorders. Millions of patients suffering from neurological…