Making 3D Objects Disappear
21.09.2015 | Berkeley Lab | newscenter.lbl.gov
Invisibility cloaks are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, from Star Trek to Harry Potter, but don’t exist in real life, or do they?
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Super-antenna could let Mars rover talk directly with Earth
16.09.2015 | ExtremeTech | www.extremetech.com
Right now, Mars rovers like Curiosity get roughly 15 minutes to talk to scientists back on Earth, twice per day. If a scientist wants to issue a complex set of orders, or download a whole bunch of…
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Researchers Control Surface Tension to Manipulate Liquid Metals
14.09.2015 | NCSU | news.ncsu.edu
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique for controlling the surface tension of liquid metals by applying very low voltages, opening the door to a new generation of…
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Lithium ‘doping’ turns graphene into a superconductor
11.09.2015 | ExtremeTech | www.extremetech.com
Scientists from Canada and Europe have published results showing that “decoration” of graphene samples with lithium can change the behavior of electrons passing through it and turn the super-material…
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Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly
07.09.2015 | UC San Diego | www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu
A new technique could pave the way for ultra low power and high-security wireless communication systems.
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Sorting good germs from bad, in the bacterial world
02.09.2015 | ASU | researchmatters.asu.edu
Your intestines are home to about 100 trillion bacteria. That’s more than the number of cells that comprise the entire human body. Armies of bacteria sneak into our bodies the moment we are born,…
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This 3D Printer Can Print 10 Materials Simultaneously
28.08.2015 | MIT News | news.mit.edu
3-D printing is great, assuming you're printing one material for one purpose, and that you’re fine with a few do-overs. But the technology is still far behind in reliably producing a variety of…
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New record temperature for a superconductor
21.08.2015 | Ars Technica; Johannes Gutenberg University | www.arstechnica.com
Superconductivity was first seen in metals cooled down to close to absolute zero. But after exhausting every metal on the periodic table, the critical temperature at which the metal transitions to…
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A small, modular, efficient fusion plant
14.08.2015 | MIT News | newsoffice.mit.edu
It’s an old joke that many fusion scientists have grown tired of hearing: Practical nuclear fusion power plants are just 30 years away - and always will be.
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Swarm of Simple Robots Does Surprisingly Complex Things
03.08.2015 | Harvard University | www.eecs.harvard.edu
In nature, vast groups of individual elements can cooperate and assemble to create highly complex global behavior through local interactions - from multicellular organisms to complex animal…
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