TECH SPACE - NANO DAILY

Pioneering research develops new way to capture light - for the computers of tomorrow

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Pioneering research by an international team of scientists, including from the University of Exeter, has developed techniques that will allow the first memory c...

Virtual reality stretching beyond video games

Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)

Virtual reality is a dream of video game lovers, but it is poised to blast far beyond play to education, medicine, architecture and other learning arenas. Thank...

U.S. Army taps Northrop Grumman for long-range radar

Sep 24, 2015 (UPI)

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the U.S. Army to develop a new long-range radar for surveillance and reconnaissance missions, the company anno...

Atomic fractals in metallic glasses

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Metallic glasses are very strong and elastic materials that appear with the naked eye to be identical to stainless steel. But metallic glasses differ from ordin...

Permanent data storage with light

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

The first all-optical permanent on-chip memory has been developed by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the universities of Munster, Oxfo...

Benign by design

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Green chemistry is akin to baking. Both require precision and specific ingredients to produce the desired results. The trick is figuring out exactly which ingre...

Laser pulses for ultrahigh molecular sensitivity, in Nature Photonics

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics Group led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Jens Biegert, in collaboration with the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics...

Laser ablation boosts terahertz emission

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

From almost instantaneous wireless transfer of huge amounts of data and easy detection of explosives, weapons, or harmful gases, to safe 3-D medical imaging and...

3-D printed guide helps regrow complex nerves after injury

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

A national team of researchers has developed a first-of-its-kind, 3D-printed guide that helps regrow both the sensory and motor functions of complex nerves afte...

Printing lightweight, flexible, and functional materials

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

3D printing is revolutionizing the production of lightweight structures, soft robots and flexible electronics, but the technology struggles with complex, multim...

4-D technology allows self-folding of complex objects

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Using components made from smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat, researchers have demonstrated a four-dimensional printing tec...

Insects passed 'the Turing Test'

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

In 1952, the legendary British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing proposed a model, which assumes formation of complex patterns through chemical intera...

A thermal invisibility cloak actively redirects heat

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

Light, sound, and now, heat - just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic ...

NASA Seeks Big Ideas from Students for Inflatable Heat Shield Technology

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

NASA is giving university and college students an opportunity to be part of the agency's journey to Mars with the Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (B...

Indra renews SMOS maintenance and development contract

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

The European Space Agency has extended until 2017 the maintenance and development contract of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission user segment, ...

Acoustic imaging with outline detection

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

Reverberated sound can make objects visible. The sonar is used in the shipping industry to acquire information about the seabed or shoals of fish, while gynaeco...

De Beers says 'challenging' time for diamonds

Sep 21, 2015 (AFP)

De Beers, the world's largest diamond producer, said Monday the economic slowdown in China and a strong US dollar meant a "challenging" year for the industry, w...

Engineers unlock remarkable 3-D vision from ordinary digital camera technology

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Modern digital cameras are equipped with an impressive array of functions - from autofocus and image stabilization to panoramas and high-definition video. Recen...

Scientists offer new method for mapping the cosmos in 3-D

Sep 18, 2015 (UPI)

Scientists in Canada have proposed a new strategy for measuring how far away distant galaxies are. The method could also help researchers map the distribution o...

Making 3-D objects disappear

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Invisibility cloaks are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, from Star Trek to Harry Potter, but don't exist in real life, or do they? Scientists at the U.S...