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May 09, 2013 06:58 PM EDT

Single Gas Molecules Can Now be Detected by Special Graphene Chemical Sensors

Engineers fine-tune the sensitivity of nano-chemical sensor: Tweaking graphene chemical sensors may open up many applications

May 09, 2013 05:35 PM EDT

First Controlled Flight of Tiny Robotic Insect

A tiny robotic insect that can fly like a bee and is similar in size was developed over long years and then successfully test-flown by Harvard roboticists.

May 09, 2013 01:48 PM EDT

Power Plants: Solar Energy Harvested Directly for Sustainable Electricity

There's a whole new meaning to the term "power plant." Researchers are developing a new technology that allows them to harvest electricity directly from these green photosynthesizers. It could mean a whole new way to harvest sustainable solar energy.

May 09, 2013 01:01 PM EDT

Google Timelapse Reveals Earth's Changes Over Almost Three Decades

If you wanted to catch a glimpse of how our Earth has changed over time, now you can. Google has expanded its mapping platform by launching a new project called Timelapse. This latest project warps you about 30 years into the past and allows you to see how the planet has changed since then.

May 09, 2013 09:20 AM EDT

Quantum Computer vs. Conventional Computer: Scientist Tests Which is Speedier

Quantum computers have long been heralded as the theoretical supercomputers of our age. Now, one researcher has discovered that quantum computing can be far speedier than traditional computing--in certain areas.

single water molecule imprisoned inside a fullerene C60 at equilibrium

May 08, 2013 11:59 PM EDT

Nanotech Scientists Make Football Molecule With Water Core

With new technique developed by Columbia Engineering researchers managed to encapsulate a single water molecule inside a football-shaped carbon (C60) molecular structure.

Scientists are developing high-brilliance laser beam sources, which enable the laser welding of plastics

May 08, 2013 03:27 PM EDT

Brilliant Progress in High-Powered Laser Technology to Enable Advanced Plastics Welding

Scientists are developing high-brilliance laser beam sources, which enable the laser welding of plastics for improved and rapid production of complexly-shaped parts, and could therefore lead to important advances in the manufacturing of polymeric products.

May 07, 2013 05:35 PM EDT

Implantable Flexible Integrated Circuits Demonstrated by Korean Researchers

Silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits (LSI) which can be used for in vivo (implanted) bio-medical wireless communication were successfully developed and tested by a team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST, South Korea.

May 07, 2013 11:25 AM EDT

Human DNA Extracted from Fluids in Minutes with New Technology

Your DNA could be ready to be sequenced in minutes, thanks to some new technology. Researches have created a device that can extract human DNA from fluid samples in a simpler and more efficient way than current methods.

The last batch of dummy conductor (out of three) for ITER is lifted on board the ship which is due to arrive in France early June.

May 06, 2013 08:33 PM EDT

China is Shipping First Parts For ITER Fusion Reactor to the Construction Site in France

On Thursday 25 April, the morning silence at the Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, China, was broken by the noise of a high powered trailer. Inside the superconductor shop of ASIPP, workers were busy preparing to load the 737 meters of dummy conductor for ITER, the international experime...

cerebral vascular system in the motor cortex of a mouse obtained by 3D two-photon microscopy with addition of Lem-PHEA dye.

May 06, 2013 08:08 PM EDT

New MRI Dye Enables Drastically Higher Resolution 3D Images of Living Brain

In a breakthrough that can drastically increase the resolution and detail of medical imaging, a fluorescent dye that enables high-resolution (about 1 micron) 3D images of the cerebral vascular system has been synthesized by researchers at the Laboratoire de Chimie (CNRS) in France.

Using the CNF, MicroGen used nanotechnology to develop a tiny energy harvester contained in a larger package seen here

May 06, 2013 05:04 PM EDT

Tiny Mechanical Energy Harvester in Production Now, Will Replace Batteries

A new kind of extremely useful micro-device, a so called “piezo-MEMS” -- standing for piezoelectric microelectromechanical system -- is able to convert ambient vibrations directly into electrical energy and will come to market this year.