A new understanding of why tungsten-doped thin films degrade so rapidly in air may lead to better designs for semiconductor technologies.
Materials Science
Jun 17, 2016
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Fabrics containing flexible electronics are appearing in many novel products, such as clothes with in-built screens and solar panels. More impressively, these fabrics can act as electronic skins that can sense their surroundings ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 17, 2016
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Polymers are an exciting prospect for use in solar cells because their manufacture is cheap, easily processed at low temperatures and can be scaled up for industrial production. A key drawback is their relatively low power ...
Materials Science
Jun 17, 2016
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Whether you give it your best effort or your worst, voice synthesis software developed at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) will make you sound like the melodious singer you've always wanted ...
Software
Jun 17, 2016
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A research team in Japan discovered through numerical calculations that nanoparticles of transition metal nitrides and carbides absorb sunlight very efficiently, and confirmed experimentally that nitride nanoparticles, when ...
Materials Science
Jun 17, 2016
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A joint research team consisting of Hiroshi Sakuma, senior researcher, Functional Geomaterials Group, Environment and Energy Materials Division, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, and Masahiro Ichiki, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2016
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"Ban the Box" legislation seeks to open doors to employment for people with criminal records by barring employers from asking about records on employment applications. More than 20 states and over 100 municipalities have ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2016
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Northeastern's Danielle Levac develops video games to make physical therapy more fun, motivating, and rewarding for patients—especially for children with movement impairments, such as those with cerebral palsy.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 17, 2016
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If you're expecting to hear from aliens from across the universe, it could be a while.
Astronomy
Jun 17, 2016
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Nanocapsules are used, for example, to protect sensitive products in cosmetics and foods, or to deploy pharmaceuticals in a targeted way by releasing them into the body only under specific conditions. In the journal Angewandte ...
Materials Science
Jun 17, 2016
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