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Fireflies utilize a relatively well-understood chemical process to produce light -- but they can only glow certain colors. In an upcoming issue of Nano Letters... Read More »

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken steps to ensure a powerful color-based imaging technique performs as well when discerning... Read More »

MIT researchers have developed a fuel cell that runs on a widely available compound: glucose. And where is glucose found in abundance? Inside the human body. The notion... Read More »

This week saw some changes in the Patexia’s content. One of the main changes is that your truly will be covering the bulk of the news developments -- this also... Read More »

Coaxial cable consists of an inner conducting wire, coated by a non-conducting dielectric, which is in turn coated by another conducting layer. This type of wire has... Read More »

Organic contaminants in various ecosystems can only be detected at very low concentrations. Research published from the University of Notre Dame could be beneficial... Read More »

Molybdenum disulphide is an indirect bandgap semiconductor in bulk, but a direct bandgap semiconductor as a single layer. Single-layer MoS2 could be used in a variety ... Read More »

Computex, the other international mobile device trade show, launched today in Taipei, Taiwan, and will no doubt keep the tech-news hungry occupied for the rest of the ... Read More »

One of graphene's unique properties is that it has zero bandgap, which effectively means that it will absorb light of any wavelength and frequency. University of... Read More »

The leading automotive microcontroller chip maker worldwide, Renesas Electronics Corp. (RNECF), may soon find themselves amidst some serious restructuring, as rumors... Read More »

Towards the end of last week, Freescale Semiconductors made an announcement that went surprisingly unnoticed by the tech community. In a press release on Thursday... Read More »

No news is Google news Owner and operator of everybody's favorite internet text field, Google, continues to make news as it branches farther away from its... Read More »

Engineers at Case Western Reserve University have designed and fabricated integrated amplifier circuits that operate under temperatures of up to 600 degrees Celsius... Read More »

Enjoy this week’s wrap up of trending medical news!   Rats paralyzed due to spinal cord injury walking again thanks to new therapy Rats that... Read More »

Superconductivity promises huge energy savings. Although they play important roles in science, industry, and medicine, conventional superconductors must be maintained ... Read More »

The two biggest challenges facing the development of photovoltaic solar cells are cost and efficiency. Solar cells are still relatively expensive to fabricate, mostly ... Read More »

  In the fast-moving world of computer memory, DRAM and Flash are the current best options, but neither is perfect. The solution is ReRAM, technology... Read More »

Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since its discovery in 2004. Just one atom thick, the famed material has several remarkable properties. It... Read More »

Electrons, the basis of information transfer in modern circuits, are not alone in their ability to form logic gates. Klas Tybrandt, researcher at Linkoping... Read More »

Just one decade ago, sequencing an entire human genome cost upwards of $10 million and took about three years to complete. Now, several companies are racing to... Read More »