First of its kind, brain-inspired device looks toward highly efficient and fast parallel computing networks

Materials scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have now created a new type of transistor…

Gimball likes to make contact. In fact, this small ultralight flying spheroid resembles an insect as it goes around bump…

In a few years, our mobile network will have to deal with a thousand times more the traffic it has to today. One possibl…

The University of Southampton has flicked the on-switch for the most powerful university-based supercomputer in England…

At the Vienna University of Technology, a new class of thermoelectric materials has been discovered. Due to a surprising physical effect they can be used to create electricity more efficiently.

A lot of energy is wasted when machines turn hot, unnecessarily heating up their environment. Some of this thermal energ…

Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.

Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to…

Unprecedented feat points toward a new generation of energy-efficient electronics.

A team of Stanford engineers has built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that has the po…

Visualization of domain wall motion: Material defects do not impede wall motion at high velocities / Publication of findings in Nature Communications

While searching for ever smaller devices that can be used as data storage systems and novel sensors, physicists at Johan…

A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semico…

Scientists now have made the first-ever accurate determination of a solid-state triple point in a substance called vanad…

University of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with…

A surprising low-tech tool—Scotch Magic tape—was one of the keys to the discovery

Combining several standard nanofabrication techniques—with the final addition of the Scotch Magic tape—researchers at th…

Researchers develop novel way to build resistive memory devices that could become the storage part of the next generation of smart phones and tablets

A team at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a novel way to build what…

New possibility of WSe2 as a post-graphene material

A group of researchers have succeeded in developing a state-of-the-art field-effect transistor, in which a strong electr…

Researchers have succeeded in developing the world’s lightest and, simultaneously, the world’s thinnest mechanically fle…

Layer of microscopic spheres offers new approach to controlling acoustic waves.

Layer of microscopic spheres offers new approach to controlling acoustic waves.

Uses a single piece of biometric data to generate different feature codes for multiple services

In contrast to the existing matching process of comparing vein feature patterns, the new method employs feature codes ex…

Findings have implications for producing stronger, more durable batteries

The Pitt team has demonstrated—for the first time—these materials are actually intrinsically attracted to water or “hydr…

University of Minnesota engineers discover novel technology for producing "electronic ink"

Electronic touch pads that cost just a few dollars and solar cells that cost the same as roof shingles are one step clos…

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the University of California, Berkeley have di…