Researchers explore the effect of journeying through the artificial, virtual world of video gaming Often enough it is human nature to conform. This tendency makes us follow the lead of compu... Read more
Infrared sensors can be employed in a wide range of applications, such as driver assistance systems for vehicles or thermography for buildings. A new camera is providing a test bed fo... Read more
The THz generation can be tailored simply by tuning the size of the meta-atoms in the metamaterial Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have demonstrated broad... Read more
Combustion engines runs needlessly about 30 percent of the time With its new start-stop coasting function, Bosch enables drivers of vehicles with combustion engines to travel in zero-emissio... Read more
By 2017, all of that year’s end-of-life refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones, computers, and other electrical and electronic products could fill a line of 40-ton trucks around three qua... Read more
More than two-thirds of the energy from primary sources like oil and gas utilized worldwide today is lost through waste heat. Half-Heusler compounds are especially suited for manufacturing t... Read more
The overall design resembles a quadcopter E-volo recently celebrated the maiden launch of its electric two-passenger, 18-rotor VC200 “Volocopter,” touting the vehicle’s saf... Read more
BASF and Bayer expect to roll out new processes to use waste CO2 to make plastics, additives, fuels and other materials in an energy-efficient and cost-effective way Reusing the major greenh... Read more
Flickering façades, curved monitors, flashing clothing, fluorescent wallpaper, flexible solar cells – and all printable. This is no make-believe vision of the future; it will soon be possibl... Read more
Straw from agriculture could play an important role in the future energy mix for Germany. Up until now it has been underutilised as a biomass residue and waste material. These were the concl... Read more
Rubber can be extracted from the juice of the dandelion. Yet the decisive breakthrough to industrial manufacturing is proving to be a tough step. Working jointly with industry and science, t... Read more
Basketball, soccer, baseball–these are all fine sports. But wouldn’t they be even more fun if they could be released from the boring, been-there-done-that laws of physics? This is what... Read more
“The discovery of this superhard superconductor demonstrates that new compounds can be brought into existence by revisiting seemingly well-studied systems,” A Binghamton University scientist... Read more
For hundreds of years, optical devices like telescopes and microscopes have relied on solid lenses that slide up and down to magnify and to focus. To tune how much light is received, convent... Read more
Safer drugs thanks to a new solution to a 150-year-old chemistry problem? Just like gloves, molecules come in so-called left-handed and right-handed versions. Until now, however, it could be... Read more