The highlight of Google's Daydream VR is ... its controller
The best thing about Google's new virtual-reality headset isn't the headset at all.
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 10, 2016
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How fungi make nutrients available to the world
Like most of us, trees don't want to be eaten alive.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2018
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Team cracks code to cheap, small carbon nanotubes
Imagine a box you plug into the wall that cleans your toxic air and pays you cash.
Nanomaterials
May 23, 2018
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Stretching cells to learn more about them
A tool developed at EPFL can stretch and compress cells, mimicking what happens in the body. The aim: to study the role played by these mechanical forces in cases of cancer or lymphatic diseases.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 5, 2016
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New quantum structures in super-chilled helium may mirror early days of universe
For the first time, researchers have documented the long-predicted occurrence of 'walls bound by strings' in superfluid helium-3. The existence of such an object, originally foreseen by cosmology theorists, may help explaining ...
General Physics
Jan 16, 2019
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Expert rock climbing routes recreated indoors using 3-D modeling and digital fabrication
Through a combination of 3-D modeling, digital fabrication and other techniques, a Dartmouth-led research team has replicated sections of popular, outdoor rock climbing routes on an indoor climbing wall. The study demonstrates ...
Computer Sciences
May 8, 2017
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Mathematicians analyse new 'racetrack memory' computer device
(Phys.org) —Competition to create the smallest, lightest and cheapest laptop on the market is motivating the ongoing search for a better computer-memory device then the current, conventional 2D hard-disk technology. Mathematicians ...
Mathematics
Aug 1, 2014
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Transparent, flexible supercapacitors pave the way for a multitude of applications
(Phys.org)—The standard appearance of today's electronic devices as solid, black objects could one day change completely as researchers make electronic components that are transparent and flexible. Working toward this goal, ...
Private lunar mission 'seeks US approval'
The US government, in a first, is preparing to approve a private commercial space mission beyond the Earth's orbit, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Space Exploration
Jun 6, 2016
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Neanderthals: The oldest art in the world wasn't made by humans
One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like their relations at either ...
Archaeology
Jan 17, 2023
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