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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 »
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Ann ConkleI've always found it frustrating that my very "smart" phone has to be plugged in the get charged. So glad to hear that power is finally catching up with the rest of the wireless revolution.
Jun 4, 2012
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 »
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Ann ConkleHard to believe that the price has fallen so far, so fast. It's very easy to envision the day when genome sequencing is part of routine health care.
May 29, 2012