Jorden van Dam, researcher at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft (Holland), has succeeded in largely controlling the transportation of electrons in semiconductor nanowires. Van Dam moreover discovered how to observe ...
Nanophysics
Jun 13, 2006
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What happens if you run an electric motor backwards? That is exactly what researchers Dr Steve Turnock and Dr Suleiman Abu-Sharkh from the University of Southampton asked themselves after they had successfully built an electric ...
Engineering
Jun 13, 2006
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A tour of a big outdoor cultural site can sometimes be a frustrating experience if objects are not easily located, identified or placed in historical context. The Agamemnon project is working on an interactive multimedia ...
Software
Jun 13, 2006
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What if you absolutely must delete all data from a computer drive -- beyond any hope of recovery? That was the challenge facing scientists at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Their solution: special high-strength ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 13, 2006
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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study shows men are good at noticing angry faces, with women good at noticing surprised, sad or joyful expressions.
Other
Jun 13, 2006
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Brilliant technological innovation is good, but only as good as the market. New technologies fail financially when they fail to take into account how users will react to them.
Other
Jun 13, 2006
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Devices comparable in sensitivity to human fingers, enabled by a novel film embedded with nanoparticles, could offer the first step toward giving robotics hands the delicacy of the human touch, experts told UPI's Nano World.
Nanophysics
Jun 13, 2006
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Wicked, Evil, Foul, Bad -- all words meaning essentially the same thing, yet we don't talk about "evil weather," "foul witches" or the "forces of bad."
Other
Jun 13, 2006
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In 2050, soccer and robot fans may soon be rooting for their favorite teams in a Cup game of human world soccer champion teams vs. a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots -- that's at least the ultimate vision of the RoboCup ...
Robotics
Jun 13, 2006
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Taking issue with the perception that computer models lack realism, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher told his audience that simulations of the nanoscale provide researchers more detailed results — not less — ...
Nanophysics
Jun 13, 2006
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