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Wax, Soap Clean p Obstacles to Better Batteries
A little wax and soap can help build electrodes for cheaper lithium ion batteries, according to a new study. The one-step method will allow battery developers to...
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Gesture-Based Computing Takes a Serious Turn
Call me a creature of habit, but I approach any new computer interface with a sense of apprehension.
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Push-Button Logic on the Nanoscale
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have used zinc oxide in the form of a nanowire to create smaller and simpler logic circuits. Zinc oxide was used...
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Nasa's Chief Technologist Seeks to Develop Transformative Programs
When Bobby Braun was a Ph.D. student in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford, he couldn't imagine holding the "dream job" he's doing now—NASA's chief technologist...
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Award-Winning Supercomputer Application Solves Superconductor Puzzle
Superconducting materials, which transmit power resistance-free, are found to perform optimally when high- and low-charge density varies on the nanoscale level...
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Dual Antennas Would Boost Cell-Phone Signals
New design would mean fewer dropped calls, longer battery life.
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Multi-Core With Virtualization, a Solution For Future Smart Phones
The Embedded Multi-Core Processing for Mobile Communications project has released an open source software platform designed to enable the efficient use of multi...
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Micromachines For a Safer World
Tel Aviv University researchers are working to make microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) even smaller, less expensive, and more sensitive by combining old-school...
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Teraflop Troubles: Powerful Gpus May Threaten the World's Password Security System
Georgia Tech Research Institute computer scientists are studying whether desktop computers with graphics processing units are so powerful that they compromise password...
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Better Displays Ahead
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati Nanoelectronics Laboratory are actively pursuing an alternative approach for low-power displays and have published an...
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Researchers Successfully Test Prototype Spintronic Device
Researchers have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data. So-called "spintronics" could...
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Star Wars Meets Ups as Robonaut Packed For Space
Getting into space isn't necessarily easy for astronauts, and it's not much easier for a robotic astronaut, either.
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Roadmap For the Robotic Future
The humble robot cleaning your floor heralds a growing wave of robot helpers, from miners to surgeons. With a quarter of the world market for industrial robots,...
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Simplifying Computer Power Behind Phones, Medical Devices
University of Houston researchers are collaborating with chipmaker Texas Instruments to simplify the development of programmable multicore processors.
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$7.5 Million U.S. Grant to Support Development of Quantum Supercomputers
A University of Pittsburgh research team recently received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to solve some of the problems preventing...
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Wireless Car Sensors Vulnerable to Hackers
Hackers could "hijack" the wireless pressure sensors built into many cars' tires, researchers have found. Criminals might then track a vehicle or force its electronic...
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.S. Military to Attack Moore's Law for Future Computers
Computers that can perform a quintillion calculations per second are being planned by the U.S. military.
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Future on Display: Technology You'll Want to Stroke
Whatever you might expect from the latest computer technology, fur is unlikely to be one of them.
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Holographic Displays, Robot Eyes Hint at Your Interactive Future
The eyes may be the window to the soul. But what do you see when you look into robotic eyes so real that it’s almost impossible to tell they are just empty, mechanical...
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