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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »