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Italian collective unveils world's largest 3-D printer

Sep 26, 2015 (UPI)

The world's largest 3-D printer is capable of building clay dwellings aimed to be used to supplement a growing global housing crisis. Italian collective WASP --...

ORNL integrated energy demo connects 3-D printed building, vehicle

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

A research demonstration unveiled at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory combines clean energy technologies into a 3D-printed building and ...

Ultrafast lasers offer 3-D micropatterning of biocompatible silk hydrogels

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Tufts University biomedical engineers are using low-energy, ultrafast laser technology to make high-resolution, 3-D structures in silk protein hydrogels. The la...

Southampton chemists create switchable gold catalyst

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

A gold catalyst whose behaviour can be controlled by the addition of acid or metal ion cofactors has been designed by chemists from the University of Southampto...

Innovations in Satellite Payloads - An interview with David Jungkind of SEAKR

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Satellite technology today is at an exciting juncture. The upcoming advent of next generation, high throughput satellite (HTS) systems combined with advances in...

Frustrated magnets point towards new memory

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Theoretical physicists from the University of Groningen, supported by the FOM Foundation, have discovered that so-called 'frustrated magnets' can produce skyrmi...

Pioneering research develops new way to capture light - for the computers of tomorrow

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Pioneering research by an international team of scientists, including from the University of Exeter, has developed techniques that will allow the first memory c...

Virtual reality stretching beyond video games

Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)

Virtual reality is a dream of video game lovers, but it is poised to blast far beyond play to education, medicine, architecture and other learning arenas. Thank...

Laser-based molecular fingerprinting

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

A team of researchers based at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics has developed an infrared laser t...

Atomic fractals in metallic glasses

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Metallic glasses are very strong and elastic materials that appear with the naked eye to be identical to stainless steel. But metallic glasses differ from ordin...

Permanent data storage with light

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

The first all-optical permanent on-chip memory has been developed by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the universities of Munster, Oxfo...

Oculus proclaims dawn of 'virtual reality era'

Sep 24, 2015 (AFP)

Facebook-owned Oculus VR wooed software makers on Thursday with the promise of a budding "virtual reality era" and an alliance with streaming television powerho...

Benign by design

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Green chemistry is akin to baking. Both require precision and specific ingredients to produce the desired results. The trick is figuring out exactly which ingre...

U.S. Army taps Northrop Grumman for long-range radar

Sep 24, 2015 (UPI)

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the U.S. Army to develop a new long-range radar for surveillance and reconnaissance missions, the company anno...

4-D technology allows self-folding of complex objects

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Using components made from smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat, researchers have demonstrated a four-dimensional printing tec...

Laser pulses for ultrahigh molecular sensitivity, in Nature Photonics

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics Group led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Jens Biegert, in collaboration with the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics...

Laser ablation boosts terahertz emission

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

From almost instantaneous wireless transfer of huge amounts of data and easy detection of explosives, weapons, or harmful gases, to safe 3-D medical imaging and...

Insects passed 'the Turing Test'

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

In 1952, the legendary British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing proposed a model, which assumes formation of complex patterns through chemical intera...

Printing lightweight, flexible, and functional materials

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

3D printing is revolutionizing the production of lightweight structures, soft robots and flexible electronics, but the technology struggles with complex, multim...

3-D printed guide helps regrow complex nerves after injury

Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)

A national team of researchers has developed a first-of-its-kind, 3D-printed guide that helps regrow both the sensory and motor functions of complex nerves afte...