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Nanotubes have remarkable electrical properties due to their specific hexagonal lattice structure. When trying to grow these tubes -- which are 50,000 times thinner than ... Read More »
What happens in Cupertino... Spending most of today's article on consumer tech simply can't be avoided: as expected, Apple's famed WWDC can't help ... Read More »
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 »
Japanese consumer electronics maker Sony released its take on the smartphone this morning, hoping that entry into the global mobile market will help alleviate recent... Read More »
This morning storage giant Western Digital unveiled their first home networking solution family. Wait... WD makes wireless routers? Before you scoff, I should say... Read More »
In the first of three press releases this morning, increasingly in-trouble Nokia revealed a "range of planned actions aimed at sharpening its strategy, improving... Read More »
Lotus leaves are an example of a surface that displays syperhydrophobic characteristics -- a surface that actively repels water. The characteristic itself is not... Read More »
Adam Klaptocz found that many flying robots, though performing well in laboratory conditions, struggled with the dangers of the real world. His work, at the Lab of... Read More »
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have created a novel microfluidic device that uses the force of gravity to sort different types of cells based weight or size... Read More »
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Ann ConkleVery cool.
Jun 13, 2012
Princeton researchers have demonstrated how entangled electrons are very "heavy" in certain crystals, and how this relates to superconductivity. A major problem in... Read More »
Anyone trying to acquire a new domain name knows, getting a ".com" is next to impossible. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)... Read More »
Samsung announced a new product known as "TecTiles" -- sticker-like tags that help your smartphone interact with the real world. Near field communication... Read More »
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Aurora SterlingGives a whole new meaning to "hands-free"
Jun 13, 2012
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 »
A recent Kickstarter project has been making waves in the mobile community. Sensordrone is a small keychain-attachable device that communicates sensor information to... Read More »
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Ann ConkleHow have I been functioning without this? Putting in my order on Kickstarter right now.
Jun 13, 2012
A123 develops energy storage solutions, looking for the next generation battery. The goal is to solve several of the current flaws plaguing energy storage solutions... Read More »
Granular materials -- flour, sand, mortar -- exhibit peculiar behavior. Not quite solid and not liquid, you can pile these materials just as easily as you can pour them. ... Read More »
This morning, Reuters reports that Verizon is going to offer data plans that allows usage to be shared across multiple devices. The plan, which allows users to... Read More »
Utah State University researchers recent won the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Service Academy and University Engineering Challenge. This year, the... Read More »
Today, Apple developers from all over the world gathered in San Jose for the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference. Today's keynote address revealed a swath... Read More »
Following in the footsteps of the device-specific-internet-anywhere platform offered by the likes of Kindle, Lenovo is stepping into the mobile broadband game -- but... Read More »
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