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Materials Sciences

New Hybrid Photodetectors Combine Quantum Dots and Graphene

The development of photodetectors has been a matter of considerable interest in the past decades since their applications are essential to many different…

Information Technology

Researchers Unveil New Advances in 3-D Printing Technology

These days, it may seem as if 3-D printers can spit out just about anything, from a full-sized sports car, to edible food, to human skin. But some things have…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method Controls Emission Direction in Microlasers

The researchers have capitalized on the largesse of an energy state in an optical field to make photons in their lasing system travel in a consistent mode,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

World's first 1,000-processor chip

A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Life on Mars: Insights from ISS Research

A year and a half on the outer wall of the International Space Station ISS in altitude of 400 kilometers is a real challenge. Whether a primordial bacterium…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Affordable Electronic Nose: The Future of Everyday Devices

Researchers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) at UT Dallas are working to develop an affordable electronic nose that can be used in breath…

Machine Engineering

Innovative Rope End Connection for High-Strength Fibre Ropes

Lightweight, inexpensive and extremely durable: The novel rope end connection for 4 to 96 mm strong fibre ropes can be subjected to extremely high tensile…

Health & Medicine

Weaker Electric Fields Found in Slow-Healing Diabetic Wounds

“This is the first demonstration, in diabetic wounds or any chronic wounds, that the naturally occurring electrical signal is impaired and correlated with…

Medical Engineering

New Device Enhances 3D Breast Imaging with Less Radiation

Preliminary tests have demonstrated that a new device may enable existing breast cancer imagers to provide up to six times better contrast of tumors in the…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny Mirror Enhances Microscope Resolution for Cell Studies

By growing cells on the mirrors and imaging them using super-resolution microscopy, a group of scientists from universities in the United States, China and…

Life & Chemistry

New Mechanism Boosts Immune Response Against Tumor Cells

The body's defences detect and eliminate not only pathogens but also tumour cells. Natural killer cells (NK-Cells) are specifically activated by chemical…

Technology Offerings

Smart Windows: Intelligent Glass That Regulates Room Warmth

The innovation comprises a thin film system for glass, which regulates the warmth in a room without external control, within an invisible switching process.

Life & Chemistry

Super-resolution microscopy reveals unprecedented detail of immune cells' surface

This study, the first to visualize this process in lymph nodes, could help scientists better understand how to turn up or down the immune system's activity to…

Physics & Astronomy

First Detection of Methyl Alcohol in Planet-Forming Disc

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA – http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/alma/) is the most powerful observatory in existence for mapping…

Physics & Astronomy

Gravitational Waves Detected Again: A Breakthrough in Science

UTC, scientists observed gravitational waves–ripples in the fabric of spacetime–for the second time.

Power and Electrical Engineering

New High-Efficiency Solar Thermal Absorbers Unveiled

Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter are one step closer to developing a new generation of low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. The…

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