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Nanophysics Jul 19, 2016

Scientists develop plastic flexible magnetic memory device

Associate Professor Yang Hyunsoo from the National University of Singapore led a research team to successfully embed a powerful magnetic memory chip on a flexible plastic material. This malleable memory chip hails a breakthrough ...

Business Jul 14, 2016

EU files fresh anti-trust charges against Google

The European Union filed new anti-trust charges against Google on Thursday, piling pressure on the US tech giant over the alleged abuse of its market dominance.

Business Jun 30, 2016

On-demand business models have put some startups on life support

Last summer, flower delivery startup BloomThat was in an enviable position.

Business Jun 10, 2016

Gawker files for bankruptcy, to sell itself to Ziff Davis

Gawker Media is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and putting itself up for sale, strained by a jury's verdict that that it must pay $140 million to pro wrestler Hulk Hogan in an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit.

Superconductivity May 27, 2016

Electrical properties of superconductor altered by 'stretching'

In the early 1970s, in the basement of Clark Hall, the Cornell team of professors David Lee and Robert Richardson, along with then-graduate student Douglas Osheroff, first observed superfluid helium-3. For that breakthrough, ...

Quantum Physics May 3, 2016

Could aluminum nitride be engineered to produce quantum bits?

Quantum computers have the potential to break common cryptography techniques, search huge datasets and simulate quantum systems in a fraction of the time it would take today's computers. But before this can happen, engineers ...

Engineering Apr 15, 2016

A new combination of materials allows state-of-the-art operating controls with elastic circuits

The research scientists at INM have succeeded in manufacturing circuit paths on thin, elastic foil made of silicone. Since these are relatively insensitive to compression and elongation strain, the electrical circuits can ...

Condensed Matter Mar 3, 2016

Irregular silicon wafer breakage studied in real-time by direct and diffraction X-ray imaging

Fracture and breakage of single crystals, particularly of silicon wafers, are multi-scale problems: the crack tip starts propagating on an atomic scale with the breaking of chemical bonds, forms crack fronts through the crystal ...

Nanophysics Feb 11, 2016

Silicon chip with integrated laser: Light from a nanowire

Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a nanolaser, a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Thanks to an ingenious process, the nanowire lasers grow right on a silicon chip, making it possible ...

Materials Science Feb 9, 2016

New catalysts recovery project to reduce sulfur emissions in refineries

Wanting to improve the catalysts used in sulfur recovery plants of Pemex Gas and Basic Petrochemicals (PGPB; Pemex is an oiling Mexican company), the Mexican Oil Institute (IMP) developed a titanium dioxide reactivation project ...

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