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15.05.2012 Restoring sight with wireless implants

A combination of video goggles and photovoltaic retinal implants could make vision restoration more practicable

Author: Leigh Phillips
Shows: 33

04.05.2012 Is the Age of Silicon Computing Coming to an End? Physicist Michio Kaku Says "Yes"
Traditional computing, with its ever more microscopic circuitry etched in silicon, will soon reach a final barrier: Moore's law is on course to run smack into a silicon wall

Author: digg.com
Shows: 138

19.04.2012 Photonic chips made easier
If you want to speed up computers much more, you will need a faster messenger. That is the idea behind silicon photonics, which whizzes data around a silicon chip using light instead of sluggish old electrons.

Author: Katherine Bourzac
Shows: 178

27.03.2012 Tech entrepreneurs use Italy’s design legacy as inspiration

A recent event in Italy, World Wide Rome, placed the rich history of Italian design ingenuity in a contemporary context

Author: Reena Jana
Shows: 268

15.03.2012 Printing Parts

Systems that print mechanical components with metal powder could be used to build lighter, more efficient airplanes

Author: Stuart Nathan
Shows: 269

14.03.2012 Breakthrough technology turns filthy sewage into clean energy

A sewage treatment process that can work anywhere, cleans the water, and can generate power. Where do we sign up?

Author: Tim Barribeau
Shows: 193

29.02.2012 Rainbow polymer reveals true colors

New rainbow-colored polymer could lead to handheld applications for color identification

Author: Charlotte Hsu
Shows: 308

27.02.2012 Eyes-free iPhone texting with BrailleTouch app

A prototype app for touch-screen mobile devices is vying to be a complete solution for texting without the need to look at a mobile gadget’s screen

Author: Michaelanne Dye
Shows: 263

24.02.2012 Why universities are building superefficient power plants

“That's what gets us the efficiency”— almost 90 percent

Author: Sarah Laskow
Shows: 313

20.02.2012 Top-heavy ‘bugs’ show how to hover

Top-heavy structures are more likely to maintain their balance while hovering in the air than those that bear a lower center of gravity, new research shows

Author: James Devitt
Shows: 321

15.02.2012 Scientists Develop Biological Computer to Encrypt and Decipher Images

The images were deciphered by a mixture of input molecules that were processed by biomolecular automata, a strategy that potentially offers a huge diversity of encrypted images

Author: Jeff Worley
Shows: 291

10.02.2012 Nanospheres trap light and hold on longer

Engineers have created photovoltaic nanoshells that harness a peculiar physical phenomenon to better trap light

Author: Andrew Myers
Shows: 410

08.02.2012 Amazonian Mushroom Eats Indestructible Plastics

We use polyurethane to make just about everything—garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. What it isn't is recyclable—there isn't a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a newly-discovered Amazonian fungus takes a bite

Author: Andrew Tarantola
Shows: 309

06.02.2012 Voicegrams transform brain activity into words

The brain’s electrical activity can be decoded to reconstruct which words a person is hearing, researchers report in PLoS Biology

Author: Mo Costandi
Shows: 488

03.02.2012 Two-Dimensional Glass

Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass—and it looks oddly familiar

Author: Katherine McAlpine
Shows: 401

25.01.2012 Advanced biofuels could create millions of jobs while greening the economy

Transforming agricultural residues into advanced biofuels could create millions of jobs worldwide, economic growth, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and energy security by 2030

Author: Press release Novozymes
Shows: 454

24.01.2012 Seaweed study fuels bioenergy enthusiasm

Engineered E. coli can convert cell wall component into ethanol

Author: Rachel Ehrenberg
Shows: 373

18.01.2012 Scientists Create World's Tiniest Ear

Researchers suggest the work could open up a whole new field of "acoustic microscopy," in which organisms are studied using the sound they emit

Author: Tim Wogan
Shows: 414

12.01.2012 Nanoscale wires defy quantum predictions

Atomic electrical components conduct just like conventional wires, giving a new lease of life to Moore's law

Author: Edwin Cartlidge
Shows: 407

09.01.2012 Self-Healing Electronics Use Liquid Metal to Fix Broken Circuits

When the circuit is broken, the microcapsules rupture, filling in the crack and restoring the circuit