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A University of California, San Diego faculty-student team is about to demonstrate a first-of-its kind, phase-change memory solid state storage device that provides performance thousands of times fas

Not every child can dream up a smartphone application and see it come to life. But that's what happened when 8-year-old William Belhumeur suggested his father make an app that identifies plants using visual recognition technology.

University Park, Pa. As invasive forest pests such as emerald ash borer and Asian long-horned beetle decimate forests they never should have seen, scientists are investigating ways to slow the introduction of new insects that may be just as devastating.

The move toward smarter, lighter and more powerful electronics, computers and smartphones depends on whether transistor circuits, the building blocks of such devices, can process large amounts of information. As these circuits get faster and smaller, the number of errors they generate — arising from heat dissipation, noise and structural disorder —in the physical information they process increases, which can impede development.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced the creation of the Medical Electronic Device Realization Center ( MEDRC ), in collaboration with Analog Devices, Inc.

Robert Helliwell pioneered the study of how radio waves - both those naturally generated by lightning and manmade signals from a radio transmitter in Antarctica - interact with charged particles in the upper atmosphere.

University of Birmingham physicists, with scientists from all over the world, present their design for the Einstein Telescope - Europe's next-generation detector that will 'see' the Universe in gravitational waves. A new era in astronomy will come a step closer when scientists from across Europe present their design study for an advanced observatory capable of making precision measurements of gravitational waves - minute ripples in the fabric of spacetime - predicted to emanate from cosmic catastrophes such as merging black holes, collapsing stars and supernovae.

In the push toward ever-smaller and ever-faster data transmission technology, a team of Stanford electrical engineers has produced a nanoscale laser that is much faster and vastly more energy efficient than anything available today.

A new high-performance electrical system has been developed by the Industrial Electronics Laboratory at EPFL to ensure the particle accelerators of the CERN receive an energy supply that is both powerful and sufficiently stable.

The navigator from the Swiss canton of Vaud is working with EPFL to equip his new boat, Rivages, designed for the Vendée Globe 2012.

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the third building to take shape in the new Science and Engineering Quadrangle.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Cardiologists may soon be able to place sensitive electronics inside their patients' hearts with minimal invasiveness, enabling more sophisticated and efficient diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias. A team of materials scientists, mechanical and electrical engineers, and physicians has successfully integrated stretchable electronics technology with standard endocardial balloon catheters.

UCL space scientists are involved in two out of four missions that have been selected by the European Space Agency to compete for a launch opportunity at the start of the 2020s.

Imperial ranked in world top three for materials science, thanks to plastic electronics researchers Imperial's Centre for Plastic Electronics is home to four of the world's top 100 materials scientis

A new technology that allows wireless signals to be sent and received simultaneously on a single channel has been developed by Stanford researchers.

Atom-thick sheets hold the key to new technologies New technique for building microscopic nanosheets paves way for next generation electronics -News Friday 4 February 2010 by Colin Smith Scientists h

University Park, Pa. Cheaper, lighter and more energy-efficient broadband devices on communications satellites may be possible using metamaterials to modify horn antennas, according to engineers from Penn State and Lockheed Martin Corp.

Using a single Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips, MIT researchers demonstrate the highest frame rate yet for streaming holographic video.

In one of the most complex transplant operations ever performed, an international team of surgeons, including Paolo Macchiarini from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, has restored the voice of a Californian woman who had been unable to speak for more than a decade.

Physicists from the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, the University of Cambridge and other institutes have successfully developed technology to enable the control and detection of spin current in a similar way to electric current. Semiconductor electronic devices such as those used for information processing and data storage are based on detecting a basic attribute of an electron, its "charge".

A project that could enable the development of revolutionary electronics and a separate project that could dramatically improve diabetes monitoring and treatment are the first two research efforts to

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Under just the right conditions—which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accelerator—it could be possible to create something out of nothing, according to University of Michigan researchers. The scientists and engineers have developed new equations that show how a high-energy electron beam combined with an intense laser pulse could rip apart a vacuum into its fundamental matter and antimatter components, and set off a cascade of events that generates additional pairs of particles and antiparticles.

The facility can simulate the effects of hundreds or thousands of years of cosmic-ray-induced neutrons in a single hour.

In an experiment to collide lead nuclei together at CERN's Large Hadron Collider physicists from the ALICE detector team including researchers from the University of Birmingham have discovered that the very early Universe was not only very hot and dense but behaved like a hot liquid. By accelerating and smashing together lead nuclei at the highest possible energies, the ALICE experiment has generated incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs, recreating the conditions that existed in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.

Neurons in your brain trigger the physical movements of your body, but some of them seem to fire in a crazy quilt pattern just before and during the movement.

Birmingham physicists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland are gearing up to study a piece of the Universe as it would have been just moments after the Big Bang. The LHC's ALICE experiment, with UK work funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), will later this week study the result of accelerating and smashing together lead nuclei at the highest possible energies, generating incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs to recreate the fundamental particles that existed in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.

European Union research initiative aims to increase electronic device efficiency by 10× and eliminate power consumption of devices in standby mode Scientists will apply nanotechnology to lower

27 Oct 2010 Women could have a fast test for breast cancer and instantly identify the presence of a tumour in the comfort of their own home thanks to ground-breaking new research from The University of Manchester. Professor Zhipeng Wu has invented a portable scanner based on radio frequency technology, which is able to show in a second the presence of tumours - malignant and benign - in the breast on a computer.

The state-of-the art system is to be installed at the University of Leeds, thanks to a £2.7 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in partnership with the Universities of Sheffield and York.

Researchers make visible the movement of monopoles in an assembly of nanomagnets For decades, researchers have been searching for magnetic monopoles - isolated magnetic charges, which can move around freely in the same way as electrical charges - since magnetic poles normally only occur in pairs.

A cross-European project has found that the use of computer music technologies can motivate young people who might otherwise leave school without the basic skills to gain employment.

An optical image of a fully fabricated e-skin device with nanowire active matrix circuitry. Each dark square represents a single pixel.

PA205/10 The University of Nottingham's status as a global leader in aerospace research has been underlined with a new grant of £3.6m.

Electronic Visualization Laboratory King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Calit2 Virtual Reality Design Engineer Greg Dawe demonstrates the HUVR device, which combines a consumer 3D HDTV

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. University of Illinois engineers have developed a novel direct-writing method for manufacturing metal interconnects that could shrink integrated circuits and expand microelectronics.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. For centuries, "man-made fibers" meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it's come to mean the filaments of glass that carry data in communications networks.

If you've ever used an iPhone, a Wii video game or an automobile airbag, you've benefited from micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, in which arrays of tiny devices mounted on computer

UCSD Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group Nanoscale Architecture for Coherent Hyper-Optic Sources (NACHOS) DARPA Microsystems Technology Office Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Calit

Cambridge, Mass. May 4, 2010 - Gu-Yeon Wei, whose research combines computer science and electrical engineering in addressing technical barriers to faster, more efficient computers and portable elect

Carbon nanoscrolls have open edges and no caps, allowing them to change their shape and diameters.

Nanoelectronics specialist Gottfried Strasser bridges the gap between basic and applied research and the manufacture of components from nanomaterials.