Nanowire manufacturing made much less costly Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have found a way to build crystalline semiconductor nanowires for much less cost, PhysOrg said this week. This is thanks to lowering the necessary temperature, from about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius, down to 150 degrees Celsius. Also, [...]
Wind speeds and wave heights over the world’s oceans have been steadily increasing for the last quarter of a century, a new long-term study shows. The researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne say the trend could also have an effect on the transfer of energy between the sea and the atmosphere – one [...]
Scientists have discovered around 500 planets thus far. Until now, however, all have originated within the Milky Way galaxy. For the first time ever, scientist discovered a planet from another galaxy. It’s not really that straightforward, however–while the planet and its star originated in another galaxy, it was subsequently cannibalized by our own. The star, [...]
Batteries are an essential part of most modern gadgets, and their role is expected to expand as they’re incorporated into vehicles and the electric grid itself. But batteries can’t move charge as quickly as some competing devices like supercapacitors, and their performance tends to degrade significantly with time. That has sent lots of materials science [...]
One of the world’s most elusive cats has been photographed by a night time camera trap, after a year-long search for the animal. The ghostly image of the Saharan cheetah has excited conservationists, as perhaps fewer than 10 of the cats survive in the deserts of Termit, Niger, where the photograph was taken. Almost nothing [...]
Forget the recession, immigration and the mortgage industry collapse — when it comes to loss of American jobs, robots are to blame. That’s the conclusion of economists who have studied labor statistics and increasing job polarization, a growing disparity in pay among low- and high-skilled jobs. A handful of studies from the spring and summer [...]
Astronomers have found the largest star yet detected – up to 20 million times brighter than the Sun – using the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Named R136a1, the star is thought to have started off with a mass of up to 320 times that of the Sun and the new discovery has doubled the [...]
It’s a sign of the times when the speed of electrons moving through wires is seen as pedestrian, but that’s increasingly the case as technology moves towards the new world of optical communication and computing. Optical communication systems that use the speed of light as the signal are still controlled and limited by electrical signaling [...]
Scientists have taken a picture of a huge baby star cocooned in a disk of dust, the first observational evidence in a debate about star formation. In the case of IRAS 13481-6124, located about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, the answer is unequivocally yes, say researchers. The team combined the light-gathering power of [...]
After five years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally given approval to an eye telescope that treats macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) has been developed by VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc. as part of Centrasight, a new patient care system which treats end-stage age-related [...]
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