Tech : Science World Report

Jan 15, 2013 03:02 PM EST

Much Faster Nanoscale Flexible Circuits Developed

Flexible nanoscale circuits, which could be used in foldable devices, integrated in clothes, or used in satellites for their low weight, have been developed by Stephen Bedell and Davood Shahrjerdi at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.

Jan 15, 2013 12:10 PM EST

Quantum Computers: Proteins Assemble Crucial Nanodiamond Array

Biological self-assembly of nanodiamond arrays have been proposed and experimentally implemented for the first time by a team of researchers around Prof. Martin Plenio at Ulm University, Germany.

Jan 14, 2013 03:13 PM EST

World's First Lumpy Tablet Appears at CES 2013 (Video)

Tactus recently announced its new lumpy keyboard at CES 2013.

Jan 10, 2013 06:34 PM EST

Superthin wire for electric sail space propulsion engineered

An one kilometer long electric sail (ESAIL), which is meant to interact with the solar wind (charged particles from the sun) to produce long-distance propulsion power for a spacecraft, has now successfully been manufactured for the first time, announced the Electronics Research Laboratory at the Uni...

Jan 07, 2013 04:32 PM EST

Toyota, Lexus unveil autonomous car research vehicle and plans at CES

The inevitable development of fully automated and autonomous automobiles seems to progress well, with Google's driverless car prototype on the road this year. But many of the advanced technologies needed for such futuristic cars, mostly sensors like radar, lasers, 360 degree cameras and GPS, all con...

Jan 02, 2013 07:13 PM EST

Space exploration drones could roam the solar-system's celestial bodies

As a way to explore the surface of low gravity celestial objects like asteroids or concretely the small Martian moon Phobos, Stanford researchers in collaboration with NASA JPL have designed an autonomous robotic platform that involves a mother spacecraft deploying one or several spiked, roughly sph...

Dec 31, 2012 04:16 PM EST

Electron-driven, switchable molecular nano-motor demonstrated

A team of researchers demonstrated a working example of a single-molecule motor, that can be switched to rotate in both directions, using the capabilities of scanning tunneling microscopes to manipulate single atoms and construct new molecules to build molecular devices, among them molecular motors ...

Dec 27, 2012 05:15 PM EST

Neural networks could run on native 'neuristors' in the future

A combination of capacitors with a new element called memristor, currently under development, will allow the construction of computational elements that work with neuron-like spikes, miniaturized on a chip. The authors of a study published in "Nature Materials" in December describing such a device n...

Dec 26, 2012 11:55 AM EST

Most advanced humanoid 'Roboy' to be birthed within 9 months by Swiss engineers

The new humanoid 'Roboy' will employ a new technology to move as elegantly as humans. He represents a new generation of robots and an innovative research direction for science and industry, according to the developers from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich.

Dec 12, 2012 01:59 AM EST

Use Mobile App and Shed 15 Pounds Weight

Mobile apps that track diets and activities of people help them shed 15 pounds in weight on an average, according to researchers from Northwestern Medicine

Dec 06, 2012 03:41 AM EST

Automation System Where Machines and Robots Make Their Own Decisions

A new automation system has been designed by the researchers at the University West in Sweden. With this automation system, robots and machines can make their own decisions and adapt to external circumstances.

Dec 05, 2012 06:52 AM EST