A simple slice of energy storage: Rice University lab uses lasers to write supercapacitors on sheets of graphite oxide
Burning patterns into graphite oxide with a laser turns the thin sheets into fully functional supercapacitors, according to a new...
Wet Electronics Open Door to New Possibilities
A 2-by-2 array of crossbar switches where memory-resistors at each crossing operate like synapses in the brain.
NASA's Dawn's Spacecraft Views Dark Side of Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on...
A Physical Route to Highly Crystalline Graphene
Google Stages E-mail Intervention After Microsoft Gmail Man Strikes
Google and Microsoft have just completed another salvo in their ongoing Web-based e-mail war.
Encouraging News on the Scientific Front; Moving It Forward to Policy and Programs
For those of us who have been working in this field for some time — which in my case is about 30 years — the mood in Rome was positive, with a palpable sense of encouragement. This was largely fueled by two things: new evidence of the long-term...
Gig.U to Extend LAN Speed Among Schools
Universities nationwide have signed onto Gig.U by soliciting ideas for how to extend gigabit per second local-area network speeds over...
Smarter Robots to Inspect Aging Nukes
A spherical robot equipped with a camera is being proposed to navigate underground pipes at nuclear reactors to locate potential...
