Depending on how they form and their chemical composition, clouds reflect and absorb varying amounts of the sun's energy. That makes them key players in global climate change. Yet the complex molecular processes underlying ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 17, 2010
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(Phys.org)—Imagine not being able to touch a touch-screen device. Tablets and smartphones—with all their educational, entertaining and social benefits—would be useless.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 11, 2012
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In biology, we often think of natural selection and survival of the fittest. What about survival of the luckiest? Like pioneers in search of a better life, bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 8, 2013
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Using carpets of aligned carbon nanotubes, researchers from Rice University and Sandia National Laboratories have created a solid-state electronic device that is hardwired to detect polarized light across a broad swath of ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 16, 2013
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A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus preserve their ...
Other
Nov 5, 2009
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Bubbles in a champagne glass may add a festive fizz to the drink, but microscopic bubbles that form in a material called metallic glass can signal serious trouble. In this normally high-strength material, bubbles may indicate ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 5, 2013
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Imagine a modern nation that works, communicates, and entertains itself via an ever-expanding lattice of fast and efficient high-tech devices but powers this network with an electric system that dates to before many parts ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 18, 2011
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(Phys.org) -- GPS has been a tremendously successful technology for positioning users in outdoor environments. But attaining GPS-like accuracy indoors has eluded telecommunication researchers for years.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 28, 2012
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An MIT team has developed a way of making soft materials, using a 3-D printer, with surface textures that can then be modified at will to be perfectly smooth, or ridged or bumpy, or even to have complex patterns that could ...
Materials Science
Jun 11, 2015
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(AP)—Microsoft Corp. will hire more than 1,000 additional employees in China this year and boost research and development spending by 15 percent as it tries to catch up with Apple and Google in the fast-growing mobile Internet ...
Business
Sep 6, 2012
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