By swapping one superconducting material for another, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a practical way to boost the efficiency of the world's fastest single-photon detector, ...
General Physics
Jun 30, 2011
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Pilots flying at night near Las Vegas over the next week may have to navigate the old-fashioned way - without GPS.
Telecom
May 18, 2011
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A waterproof controller designed and built by York University researchers is allowing an underwater robot to go "wireless" in a unique way.
Engineering
Sep 30, 2010
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(AP) -- A new flavor of Wi-Fi, with longer range and wall-piercing power, could show up in wireless gadgets a year from now if the Federal Communications Commission works out the last details of new spectrum rules that have ...
Telecom
Sep 13, 2010
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Physicists in the United States and Germany have discovered a way to use a gallium arsenide nanodevice as a signal processor at "terahertz" speeds, the first time it's been used for this purpose and an important step forward ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers help smaller processors outperform a single superfast processor by working more efficiently in parallel.
Computer Sciences
Jul 7, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists who compare insect chirps with ape calls may look like they are mixing aphids and orangutans, but researchers have found common denominators in the calls of hundreds of species of insects, birds, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2010
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Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers in the ...
Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2009
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(AP) -- Think the digital TV transition is over? Not quite. Many viewers have found that they can't pick up certain stations after the switch, even with the right TVs or converter boxes. The stations are still trying to ...
Telecom
Sep 18, 2009
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(AP) -- TV stations must alert viewers if their new digital signals don't reach areas covered by their soon-to-be-defunct analog broadcasts, the Federal Communications Commission has ruled.
Telecom
Mar 16, 2009
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