"Supercapacitors" take the energy-storing abilities of capacitors (which store electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices) a step further, storing a far greater charge in a much smaller package. In AIP Advances, ...
Tags: Energy Storage, Miniaturized Capacitors, Green Energy Technology
"2013 Report on the International Microscopy Devices Market - Trends And Forecast to 2018", estimates the global market for microscopy devices in terms of revenue (USD million) for the period 2012 - 2018, keeping 2011 as the base year. The ...
Tags: Global Microscopy Devices, Health, Medicine
Conventional wing designs in the form of hinged flaps are in for a re-think. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has noted how hinged flight control surfaces came along shortly after wing-warping technology developed by the Wright ...
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A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Sunlight
Axxam (Milan), a leading provider of discovery services including assay development for high-throughput screening, and Cellectis bioresearch (Paris), the cell engineering expert, have started a collaboration to offer to the Life Science ...
The record for the longest duration echo in a man-made structure has been decimated by a single shot from a blank loaded pistol—an amazing 112 seconds. It happened inside an oil storage tank buried in the hard rock of a hillside in ...
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The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. A team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that ...
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Carestream Tollcoating, a provider of toll coating services specializing in aqueous and solvent coatings on flexible substrates, significantly expanded its contract manufacturing services in 2013 to improve product development and scale-up ...
Tags: Product Development, new Coating Assessment Laboratory
Chevrolet has made the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) 2014 its global stage for the unveiling of the much-anticipated Corvette Z06 and the C7.R race car. Recognized as an important global launch-pad for automakers to ...
Tags: engine, Performance Data Recorder, NAIAS
South Korea recently suggested that the South Korean companies should focus on China's domestic demand, urbanization and environmental protection. China's urbanization will bring revenue growth and growing middle class, domestic market and ...
Tags: 3C, Economy, services market, food, cosmetic, automobile, IT
Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a ...
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Humans and some of our hominid ancestors such as Homo erectus have been walking for more than a million years, and researchers are close to figuring out how we do it. It's never been completely clear how human beings accomplish the ...
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The industry of preform plastic moulding is a gigantic one. In the most recent not many decades, it has truly become a considerable measure and has now thrown its wings in all headings. Plastics are generally utilized everywhere throughout ...
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Robots, even very well programmed robots, really don't care about you. And by "you," I mean humans. And even if a robot did care about you, most of them don't have a clue about what you're doing or what you want. We've seen all kinds of ...
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MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics. It's the ambitious mission powering her fast-growing startup littleBits, ...
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