Tech: Study of excitons important to next-generation electronics — (Report)

Scientists led by Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered electronic properties in quantum-scale devices that are likely to impact the...

Tech: Discerning reflective/transparent materials through motion — (Report)

The Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory research team at the Toyohashi University of Technology has uncovered a material perception mechanism with which humans...

Tech: Lead-free, efficient perovskite for photovoltaic cells — (Report)

A KAIST research team has proposed a perovskite material, Cs2Au2I6 that serves as a potential active material for highly efficient lead-free thin-film photovoltaic...

Tech: Measuring metabolites in algae one cell at a time — (Report)

In partnership with several institutes across Japan, scientists at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, report a new microscopy system that...

Tech: Study relies on high-resolution microscopy techniques to confirm nanoscale magnetic features — ...

A team of scientists working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has confirmed a special property known as...

Tech: Electrons take one step forward without two steps back — (Report)

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have, for the first time, successfully used electric dipoles to completely suppress electron transfer in one...

Tech: Technique enables analysis of how living systems work at small scales — ...

What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call "free energy," essentially the...

Tech: Silicon provides means to control quantum bits for faster algorithms —

Quantum bits are now easier to manipulate for devices in quantum computing, thanks to enhanced spin-orbit interaction in silicon. A silicon quantum computer chip...

Tech: Technology captures water evaporating from cooling towers —

A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for parched cities around the world while also...
Facebook, AggregateIQ now being jointly probed by Canada: Report

Facebook, AggregateIQ now being jointly probed by Canada: Report

Facebook has revealed it has suspended Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ (AIQ) after reports that the company may have improperly had access to the personal...

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