Science

Authentication Chips Combat Rampant Counterfeiting

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The authentication microchip market is small today, but will grow rapidly in a diverse anti-counterfeiting market expected...

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"Watermark Ink" device identifies unknown liquids instantly: New 3D-nanostructured chip offers a litmus test for surface tension (and doubles as a carrier for secret messages)

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The "W-Ink" technology has only become possible due to a seamless fusion and interaction between chemistry, optics, condensed matter, and...

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Data Furnaces Use Servers to Heat the Home

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Big server farms are a major consumer of electricity in the United States. Using their heat to warm homes and offices could...

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A simple slice of energy storage: Rice University lab uses lasers to write supercapacitors on sheets of graphite oxide

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Burning patterns into graphite oxide with a laser turns the thin sheets into fully functional supercapacitors, according to a new...

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Wet Electronics Open Door to New Possibilities

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A 2-by-2 array of crossbar switches where memory-resistors at each crossing operate like synapses in the brain.

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NASA's Dawn's Spacecraft Views Dark Side of Vesta

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on...

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A Physical Route to Highly Crystalline Graphene

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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.

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