Researchers also note that the new materials devised could be applied to satellites, cars, space suits and shuttles, basically everything that might take an impact. Military armor progressed from steel plates to kevlar (ceramic) plates [...]

Could yield an entirely new class of devices that use light instead of electricity Stanford researchers in physics and engineering have demonstrated a device that produces a synthetic magnetism to exert virtual force on photons [...]

The Coming Age of Enhancement IF a brain implant were safe and available and allowed you to operate your iPad or car using only thought, would you want one? What about an embedded device that [...]

Novel processing method helps pave the way for carbon technology as a viable alternative to silicon in future computing IBM scientists have demonstrated a new approach to carbon nanotechnology that opens up the path for [...]

This discovery opens up perspectives for a multitude of applications in robotics For the first time, an assembly of thousands of nano-machines capable of producing a coordinated contraction movement extending up to around ten micrometers, [...]

It will now be easier to detect microbes that cause illnesses in the physician’s reception, or to monitor allergens at home. Researchers at have succeeded in developing a durable and affordable nanofibrillar cellulose film platform [...]

Platinum works well as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells, but it has at least two drawbacks: It is expensive, and it degrades over time. Brown chemists have engineered a cheaper and more durable catalyst [...]

A potential new treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), which affects thousands of soldiers, auto accident victims, athletes and others each year, has shown promise in laboratory research, scientists are reporting. TBI can occur in [...]

Has the potential to revolutionise diverse applications from smartphones and ultrafast broadband to anticancer drugs and computer chips Wonder material graphene could not only dominate the electronic market in the near future, it could also [...]

Initial experiments were confined to copper, but Dr Banerjee said research was already under way on using the same technique with other metals. A coating so thin it’s invisible to the human eye has been [...]

A team of Spanish scientists has developed an intelligent nanodevice that lays the foundations for the future development of new therapies against aging. The device consists of nanoparticles that can selectively release drugs in aged [...]

This finding may revolutionise the technology industry. Norwegian researchers are the world’s first to develop a method for producing semiconductors from graphene. The method involves growing semiconductor-nanowires on graphene. To achieve this, researchers “bomb” the [...]