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International research team achieves controlled movement of skyrmions

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

A joint research project being undertaken by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has achieved a breakt...

Spray-on coating could ice-proof airplanes, power lines, windshields

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

On your car windshield, ice is a nuisance. But on an airplane, a wind turbine, an oil rig or power line, it can be downright dangerous. And removing it with the...

New insights into atomic disordering of complex metal oxides

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

A study led by the University of Tennessee and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could soon pay dividends in the development of materials...

Smart clothing of the future will automatically adjust itself

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

Smart clothing of the future will automatically adjust itself according to the wearer's actual needs VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has developed ...

Light helps the transistor laser switch faster

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

Light and electrons interact in a complex dance within fiber optic devices. A new study by University of Illinois engineers found that in the transistor laser, ...

The updated crystalline sponge method

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

X-ray crystallographic analysis is one of the only methods that provides direct information on molecular structures at the atomic level. The method, however, ha...

Virtual reality girds for test in marketplace

Mar 17, 2016 (AFP)

A middle-aged white man sees himself as a young black woman being taunted by a racist. An Israeli grandmother glimpses herself as a Palestinian teen. A star ath...

Outsourcing crystal growth...to space

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Sometimes, distance can lend a new perspective to a problem. For Japanese researchers studying protein crystal growth, that distance was 250 miles up - the alti...

British mathematician solves Fermat's Last Theorem

Mar 17, 2016 (UPI)

A British mathematician has solved the 300-year-old math problem known as Fermat's Last Theorem, and will claim a $700,000 prize for his work. Andrew Wiles, 62,...

A foldable material that can change size, volume and shape

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch. Harvard researchers have designed a new type of fo...

INRS takes giant step forward in generating optical qubits

Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)

The optical chip developed at INRS by Prof. Roberto Morandotti's team overcomes a number of obstacles in the development of quantum computers, which are expecte...

PlayStation virtual reality gear to launch in October

Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)

Sony plans to make virtual reality -- long the stuff of films cast off into a distant future -- mainstream with the October release of PlayStation VR headgear p...

3D printer could soon make cartilage for knees, noses, ears

Mar 16, 2016 (UPI)

Researchers at the Wallenberg Wood Science Center in Sweden have developed a 3D bioprinter capable of creating cartilage. The 3D printer uses ink containing hum...

Research team documents design of wood-based polymers

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

Richard Wool was a pioneer in green engineering and author of the first book to systematically describe the chemistry and manufacture of bio-based polymers and ...

Disney research takes depth cameras into high-accuracy 3-D capture

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

Disney Research scientists are adapting low-cost depth-sensing cameras for use underwater, with the goal of capturing 3-D models of marine flora and fauna with ...

Unique optical trapping system offers way to launch high-power laser light

Mar 16, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that laser light can be used to manipulate a glass optical fiber tapered to a sharp point smaller than a spec...

Super-clear synapses at super resolutions

Mar 15, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Japan have developed a way to obtain super-resolution 3-D images of delicate structures deep ...

Unpacking space radiation to control astronaut and earthbound cancer risk

Mar 15, 2016 (SPX)

NASA limits an astronaut's radiation exposures to doses that keep their added risk of fatal cancer below 3 percent. Unfortunately, that ceiling restricts the ti...

ORNL researchers stack the odds for novel optoelectronic 2-D materials

Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)

Stacking layers of nanometer-thin semiconducting materials at different angles is a new approach to designing the next generation of energy-efficient transistor...

UA's Space Expertise Seen as Key for US Security

Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)

With its recently launched research initiative focused on space object behavioral sciences, the University of Arizona is uniquely positioned at the forefront of...