An Israeli committee has chosen a consortium led by Swedish company ViaEuropa to build a nationwide high-speed broadband network.

Technology - Telecom

Jun 17, 2013 not rated yet 0

EPFL scientists have discovered how optical signal transmission can be controlled, paving the way for the integration of plasmonics with conventional electronic circuits.

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jun 17, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online. Eighteen months in the works, the top- ...

Technology - Telecom

Jun 15, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 4

Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they ...

Technology - Telecom

Jun 15, 2013 4.7 / 5 (18) 11

Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed.

Technology - Internet

Jun 14, 2013 4.5 / 5 (6) 1

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology quantum mechanically couple atoms to glass fiber cables. Now, they have shown that their technique enables storage of quantum information over a sufficiently ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Jun 12, 2013 5 / 5 (10) 2 |

Today's technological innovation enables smartphone users to diagnose serious diseases such as diabetes or lung cancer quickly and effectively by simply breathing into a small gadget, a nanofiber breathing ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jun 11, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Products derived from coconuts and oil palm trees are the primary protein sources in swine diets in parts of Africa, southeast Asia, South America, and Europe. New research from the University of Illinois is helping to establish ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 04, 2013 not rated yet 0

When Google Inc. tapped Kansas City as its first test bed for super-fast Internet service, the market looked poised to slingshot into a high-tech stratosphere. Two years later, as a few Kansas City neighborhoods plug into ...

Technology - Telecom

May 30, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —Researchers at Stanford's Biometrics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory just south of San Francisco, have come up with two new innovations in robotic aircraft design. One is an improvement ...

Technology - Engineering

May 30, 2013 4.9 / 5 (12) 1 |

(Phys.org) —Paper is known for its ability to absorb liquids, making it ideal for products such as paper towels. But by modifying the underlying network of cellulose fibers, etching off surface "fluff" ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

May 29, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Chemical engineering researchers Wei Fan, Paul Dauenhauer and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report this week that they've discovered a new chemical process to make p-xylene, an important ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

May 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at Bell Labs in New Jersey has found a way to dramatically reduce the amount of distortion in long distance fiber cables. Their method results, the team reports ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

May 27, 2013 4.7 / 5 (23) 0 |

A light wave oscillates perpendicular to its propagation direction – that is what students learn in school. However, scientists of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) now perform atom-physics ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

May 27, 2013 4.8 / 5 (23) 4 |

Google has become deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, a report said Friday.

Technology - Telecom

May 24, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0