Smart pill bottle keeps drugs safe
Low-cost, stretchy sensors can be assembled inside the lid of a drug container to help monitor patient safety.
Engineering
May 6, 2019
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News tagged with electrical connections
Science on a plane – ESA's next parabolic flight campaign
In May, engineers, pilots, researchers and scientists will convene in Bordeaux, France, for ESA's 71st parabolic flight campaign. Over the course of three days they will fly on a specially-fitted commercial aircraft, testing ...
Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2019
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Sensitive robots feel the strain
Flexible skin for soft robots, embedded with electrical nanowires, combines conductivity with sensitivity within the same material.
Robotics
Dec 11, 2018
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A way to make batteries almost any shape desired
A team of researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Harvard University and Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology has developed a way to make batteries in almost any shape that can be imagined. ...
The coldest chip in the world
Physicists at the University of Basel have succeeded in cooling a nanoelectronic chip to a temperature lower than 3 millikelvin. The scientists from the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute set this record ...
General Physics
Dec 20, 2017
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New approach uses light instead of robots to assemble electronic components
An international team of researchers has developed a new light-based manipulation method that could one day be used to mass produce electronic components for smartphones, computers and other devices. A cheaper and faster ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 7, 2017
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Tesla says France fire caused by badly tightened connection
Tesla says that a fire in one of its electric cars in France broke out because an electrical connection had not been tightened properly.
Business
Sep 14, 2016
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Engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power
The upside of Wi-Fi is that it's everywhere - invisibly connecting laptops to printers, allowing smartphones to make calls or stream movies without cell service, and letting online gamers battle it out.
Telecom
Feb 23, 2016
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Navy researchers recruit luminescent nanoparticles to image brain function
Research biologists, chemists and theoreticians at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), are on pace to develop the next generation of functional materials that could enable the mapping of the complex neural connections ...
Nanophysics
Nov 17, 2015
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How to take photos of Earth while whizzing past at 17,000 MPH
When you're flying above Earth in a spaceship or space station, taking a clear picture below is more than a point-and-shoot job. As NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains in this video, you need to account for the motion of your ...
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2014
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