The artificial skin developed by Prof. Gordon Cheng and his team consists of hexagonal cells about the size of a two-euro coin (i.e. about one inch in…
Optical phenomena that we encounter in our everyday life, such as reflection, refraction or absorption of light, do not depend on the intensity of incident…
Producing functional fabrics that perform all the functions we want, while retaining the characteristics of fabric we're accustomed to is no easy task.
Future technologies, however, will harness the total synchrony of electronic behavior in superconductors – a property called the phase. There is currently a…
Researchers from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have built a super-sensitive bolometer, a type of thermal radiation detector.
Demand of miniaturization for digitalized medical devices continues to grow
As one of the world’s largest economies, Germany ranks sixth worldwide in terms of CO2 emissions. In the industrial sector alone, 188 million tons of CO2 are…
The underlying self-organization process is regulated by neuronal activity but the detailed mechanisms are still poorly understood. Based on in vitro studies…
Michigan State University researchers, however, have found and flipped a switch in the brain, revealing a single circuit in mice that activates during stress…
Transparent conductive films (TCFs) have many applications in touch screens, organic light emitting diodes and solar cells. These applications need materials…
Many farmers across sub-Saharan Africa try to coax crops out of sandy soils that are not ideal for holding water and nutrients. Their harvests are predictably…
The ability to hear relies on neurons to constantly transmit information at very rapid timescales. This rapid rate of information transmission results in…
The artificial skin developed by Prof. Gordon Cheng and his team consists of hexagonal cells about the size of a two-euro coin (i.e. about one inch in…
How Do the Strongest Magnets in the Universe Form?
The Fraunhofer Institute of Reliability and Microintegration IZM is a renowned expert for wafer-level packaging and substrate technologies. This expertise made…
Tuberculosis is a highly contagious infectious disease that is typically spread through aerosols and mainly affects the lungs. According to the World Health…
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