News tagged with small electronics

Colored solar cells could make display screens more efficient

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new kind of screen pixel doubles as a solar cell and could boost the energy efficiency of cell phones and e-readers. The technology could also potentially be used in larger displays to make ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Artificial intestine helps fight bad gut bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell professor John March is attempting to transform bacteria in our gut into disease-fighting machines. Now, thanks to two members of his research team, he has a powerful new tool to help ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chips with everything

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the technology to make computer chips smaller and cheaper progresses each year, the fundamental structure of the chip - the computer architecture - has remained the same for decades. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 4




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Risks of boomerangs a reality in world of cyberwar

(AP) — The Obama administration is warning American businesses about an unusually potent computer virus that infected Iran's oil industry even as suspicions persist that the United States is responsible ...

Technology / Internet

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tighter 'stitching' makes better graphene

(Phys.org) -- Similar to how tighter stiches make for a better quality quilt, the "stitching" between individual crystals of graphene affects how well these carbon monolayers conduct electricity and retain ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Free-electron lasers reveal detailed architecture of proteins

(Phys.org) -- In the centennial year of Max von Laue’s discovery that X-ray diffraction can be used to unravel the atomic architecture of molecules, a new approach to the determination of high-resolution ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High-temperature superconductivity starts at nanoscale

(Phys.org) -- High-temperature superconductivity doesn't happen all it once. It starts in isolated nanoscale patches that gradually expand until they take over.

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists hone in on size and environmental influence of the quantum dots used in hybrid solar cells

(Phys.org) -- Sometimes to answer big questions, you need to start small-very small. Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Chemical Imaging Initiative did just that when they analyzed cadmium ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Enceladus plume is a new kind of plasma laboratory

(Phys.org) -- Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nanotechnology breakthrough could dramatically improve medical tests

A laboratory test used to detect disease and perform biological research could be made more than 3 million times more sensitive, according to researchers who combined standard biological tools with a breakthrough ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Arctic bacteria help in the search to find life on moon Europa

In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteria offer ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Development of nonvolatile white light-emitting liquid that is coatable on diverse range of materials

A Japanese research team headed by Dr. Takashi Nakanishi of the National Institute for Materials Science developed a nonvolatile liquid material which emits white light at room temperature.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Current focus of veterinary medical profession leaves research, food security, public health needs underserved

Without immediate action, a new National Research Council report warns, the academic veterinary community could fail to prepare the next generation of veterinarians for faculty teaching and research positions as well as for ...

Biology / Other

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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