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Learn a Language While You Text
An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
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Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays...
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Carbon Nanotube Computing?
A group of researchers is exploring the use of single-walled carbon nanotube composites for use in unconventional computing based on the concept of evolvable hardware...
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Future Electronics Based on Carbon Nanotubes
A research team has found a way to purify arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes, possibly providing a step toward post-silicon circuits and devices.
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Tweets Measure Political Polarization
Spanish researchers analyzed 16 million tweets from more than 3 million users following the death of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to quantify the extent of political...
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Can 'Tandem' Photovoltaics Boost Solar Cell Efficiencies?
By stacking perovskites atop conventional silicon solar cells, a team of researchers created "tandem" photovoltaics that may achieve significantly higher energy...
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Teams Prep for Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
College students from 10 mid-Atlantic schools will defend a virtual mass transportation computer system against full-scale cyberattacks at the 10th Annual National...
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3-D Printed Parts Provide Low-Cost, Custom Alternatives for Lab Equipment
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have found that 3-D printers can be an important tool in laboratory environments...
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A New Spin on Spintronics
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University is exploring new materials that could yield higher computational speeds...
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Electronics You Can Wrap Around Your Finger
Researchers from South Korea have taken a new step toward more bendable devices by manufacturing a thin film that keeps its useful electric and magnetic properties...
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A Qubit Candidate Shines Brighter
Precisely placing imperfections called "nitrogen vacancy centers" within nano-sized diamond structures can boost their fluorescence, a key step toward using the...
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Nanoscale Resistors for Quantum Devices
Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology have made new thin-film chromium oxide resistors that could speed the development of quantum devices for computing...
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Space: The Final Frontier in Silicon Chemistry
Scientists from the University of Tokyo have determined the unique electromagnetic emission spectrums of two new, highly-reactive silicon compounds, which will...
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Future Flexible Electronics Based on Carbon Nanotubes
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Northwestern University have demonstrated a new method to improve the reliability and performance of transistors...
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The Future Face of Molecular Electronics
Molecular electronics could enable the construction of tiny circuits in which individual molecules take on the roles currently played by wires, resistors, and...
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Making Artificial Membranes on Silicon
Artificial membranes mimicking those found in living organisms have been developed by scientists in Chile through a "dry" process, marking the first time an artificial...
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Diamond Defect Clears Path to Better Quantum Computers
Planting imperfections called "NV centers" at specific spots within a diamond lattice could advance quantum computing and atomic-scale measurement.
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Cell Gives Multi-bit 'Spin' to MRAM Storage
A France-U.S. research team working with MRAM technology has developed a multi-bit storage cell that may rival flash memory storage.
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Thermoelectric Material Converts Heat to Electricity with Greater Efficiency
A new study shows how porous substances can act as thermoelectric materials, pointing the way for using such materials in thermoelectric devices of the future...
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Ultra-Thin Wires for Quantum Computing
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland have found a way to fabricate ultrahigh transmission optical nanofibers, a potential component...
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Just Add Water
Using only a drop of water, scientists from the University of Twente have folded flat sheets of silicon nitride into cubes, pyramids, and half soccer-ball-shaped...12