A 3-D model of the brain of a man who lived for 55 years with almost total amnesia is revealing new clues about what caused his memory loss, and could lead to a better understanding of memory, researchers report. Henry Molaison (often ...
Researchers at New York University have developed a method for creating and directing fast moving waves in magnetic fields that have the potential to enhance communication and information processing in computer chips and other consumer ...
Tags: spin wave, NYU, STNO, Nanotechnology
LAS VEGAS - Casual dining suppliers here say retailers are reacting positively to new or hard-to-find materials on tabletops, innovative ways to cut prices but maintain quality, and even the idea of selling a table with various types of ...
Tags: Four Hands, Thomas Bina, Riverside Furniture, a new material
UK-based MPE, a designer and manufacturer of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and Tempest filters and feed-through capacitors, has appointed Electrade as its distributor covering the whole of Germany for both ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Building robots is hard. Seriously hard. Not only do you have to construct them physically, but even after you've got them all wired up with motors and sensors and batteries and whatnot, they won't actually DO anything until you've spent ...
Tags: MOSS, Building Robots, MIT, Scratch
The world of two-dimensional (2-D) materials has just gotten a little more crowded. If graphene, boron nitride, molybendum disulfide and silicene weren’t quite enough, we now may have something to join the mix in the 2-D universe that ...
Tags: Borophene, Nature Communications, Scotch Tape, B36
The hardness, crystalline structure and wide bandgap of gallium nitride (GaN) make it ideal for a variety of applications, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes that read blu-ray discs, transistors that operate at high ...
Tags: III-V Semiconductor, Laser
January 28, 2014 Sophie Langley Chinese and Thai cuisines are popular among Australian vegetable consumers More than a third of Australian vegetable consumers have added Chinese and Thai cuisines to their cooking repertoire in the ...
Tags: AUSVEG, vegetable, cuisine, Andrew White
A fiber optic cable consists of a bundle of glass threads, each of which is capable of transmitting messages that modulates into light waves. A fiber optic is made out of glass. The glass used in making optic cable is in its purest form. ...
Solos Endoscopy, a provider of healthcare instruments to hospitals across the US, announce that the company has received its ISO 13485:2003 Certification from TUV SUD America. The certification to ISO 13485:2003 will in turn allow Solos ...
Tags: TUV SUD, FDA, ISO Certified, MammoView
DuPont announced fourth quarter 2013 operating earnings of $.59 per share compared to $.20 per share in the prior year. GAAP earnings from continuing operations were $183 million or $.19 per share, versus $4 million or zero per share last ...
When molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) entered the conversation related to two-dimensional (2-D) alternatives to graphene in electronic applications, some thought that MoS2 had an edge as a transistor material. That thought was inspired by the ...
Tags: MoS2, Nature Communication, semiconductor, CVD
Tiny "bio-bots" inspired by sperm could swim inside the human body to deliver drugs or target cancer someday. The swimming bio-hybrid machines move by combining live heart cells with the flexible body of a synthetic polymer. Past research ...
Tags: Bio-Bots, DNA, molecule, Nature Communication
Ammono S.A. of Warsaw, Poland, which produces bulk gallium nitride (GaN) using ammonothermal technology, has announced that it is partnering with Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA and MicroLink Devices of Niles, IL, USA in two novel ...
Tags: efficiency of power electronics, semiconductor materials
Bacardi, a Bermuda-based producer of wines and spirits, has announced progress on its efforts to limit impact on natural resources in its annual report on corporate responsibility (CR). The company has lowered energy consumption by ...