Friday, September 13, 2019
fingerprint sensorvideo

PYCSEL, a New Thermal Fingerprint Sensor

The European funded PYCSEL (PYroelectric Conformable SEnsor matrix for Large area applications in security and safety) project has been previously shown in...
Antibiotic Resistance

Scientists Find Powerful Potential Weapon to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance

Brian Conlon, PhDStaphylococcus aureus bacteria are a major cause of serious infections that often persist despite...
Nanowires

Nanowires Replace Newton’s Famous Glass Prism

Scientists have designed an ultra-miniaturized spectrometer that could directly make chemical fingerprint analysis. Made from a single nanowire, the spectrometer is the...
optical lens

World’s Largest Optical Lens Shipped to SLAC

When the world’s newest telescope starts imaging the southern sky in 2023, it will take photos using optical assemblies designed by Lawrence Livermore...

perovskite-CIGS solar cell

World Record for Tandem Perovskite-CIGS Solar Cell

A team headed by Prof. Steve Albrecht from the HZB will present a new world-record tandem solar cell at EU PVSEC, the...

planetary system

New Planet Nine Times the Mass of Jupiter Found in Nearby Star System

New discovery marks the first planetary system where one planet has been detected directly and a second planet through the indirect methodsβ...
Alzheimer’s

Biochemists Discover New Insights into What May Go Awry in Brains of People with...

More than three decades of research on Alzheimer’s disease have not produced any major treatment advances for those with the disorder, according...
hippocampal memory system

Revealed: How Our Brain Remembers the Order of Events

The hippocampus is a part of the brain that plays an important role in memoryHow hippocampal time cells are generated to remember...
Tiny sensors

Uncovering How Cells Become Organs

How does a small group of cells organize to become a heart, a brain, or a kidney? This critical period of development...
electric vehicles

University Part of £11.2M Consortium to Improve Battery Technology for Electric Vehicles

The University’s Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy is part of a new research consortium that has been awarded £11.2 million by the Faraday Institution to explore...
bacteria

Hi-Tech Bacteria Gene Tool Could Prove Productive

The powerful method could enable bacteria to be used as cheap and environmentally friendly living factories that make a range of useful...
Autonomous Vehicle

Georgia Tech’s Autonomous Vehicle Research Gets a Real-World Boost through Partnership with Delta, Curiosity...

A new partnership with Delta Air Lines and Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners will give Georgia Tech researchers access to a real-life environment to...
Typhoid toxin

Typhoid Toxin Accelerates Cell Ageing to Enhance Killer Infection, Study Reveals

New research has shown how a toxin of Salmonella Typhi that causes typhoid fever takes over DNA repair machines to age cells...
Graphene detector

Graphene Detector Can Revolutionize Space Telescopes

Beyond superconductors, there are few materials that can fulfill the requirements needed for making ultra-sensitive and fast terahertz (THz) detectors for astronomy....

Interest Rates Are a Decisive Factor for Competitive Renewables

Renewable energy
Renewable energy is an essential part of efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Without it – according to all the climate scenarios – the...

Flexible Solar Cells a Step Closer to Reality

Flexible solar cells
Discovery by University of Warwick scientists challenges accepted rule of organic solar cell designCould help to bring about low cost, flexible and...

University Part of £11.2M Consortium to Improve Battery Technology for Electric...

electric vehicles
The University’s Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy is part of a new research consortium that has been awarded £11.2 million by the Faraday Institution to explore...