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Scientists Propose Network of Imaging Centers to Drive Innovation in Biological Research

August 22, 2019

Interdisciplinary interactions are essential for driving the innovation pipeline in biological imaging, yet collegial workspa...

Materials That Can Revolutionize How Light Is Harnessed for Solar Energy

August 20, 2019

Researchers develop new design rule for generating excitons will help advance next-generation devices

Self-Healing Robots That ‘Feel Pain’

August 9, 2019

Researchers want to ensure that robots that are used in our working environment are safer, but also more sustainable

Unique Electrical Properties in Quantum Materials Can Be Controlled Using Light

August 6, 2019

New research on Weyl semimetals, a class of quantum materials, unlocks unique quantum properties that can be used to create l...

A Good First Step toward Nontoxic Solar Cells

July 31, 2019

Engineers discover lead-free perovskite semiconductor for solar cells using data analytics, supercomputers

Stanford Physicists Count Sound Particles with Quantum Microphone

July 29, 2019

Device could eventually lead to smaller, more efficient quantum computers that operate by manipulating sound rather than...

Stretch-Sensing Glove Captures Interactive Hand Poses Accurately

July 24, 2019

Researchers to present innovative glove at SIGGRAPH 2019

Does One Size Fit All? a New Model for Organic Semiconductors

July 24, 2019

A multicenter team including researchers from Osaka University reports new observations for organic single crystals that deri...

Tiny Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World's Smallest Ant

July 19, 2019

Swarms of these 'micro-bristle-bots' might work together to sense environmental changes, move materials—or perhaps one ...

200 Times Faster Than Ever Before: The Speediest Quantum Operation Yet

July 18, 2019

Research team achieves a major milestone in their quest to build an atom-scale quantum computer

Cyborg-Like Microchip Valve Driven by Earthworm Muscle

July 17, 2019

For several decades, researchers have been trying to combine microelectromechanical systems with living material

A Material Way to Make Mars Habitable

July 16, 2019

Silica aerogel could warm the Martian surface similar to the way greenhouse gases keep Earth warm

Researchers' Deep Learning Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cube Faster Than Any Human

July 16, 2019

Work is a step toward advanced AI systems that can think, reason, plan, and make decisions

Robot Uses Machine Learning to Harvest Lettuce

July 10, 2019

Although the prototype is nowhere near as fast or efficient as a human worker, it demonstrates how the use of robotics in agr...

Camera Brings Unseen World to Light

July 5, 2019

Portable polarization-sensitive camera could be used in machine vision, autonomous vehicles, security, atmospheric chemistry,...

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