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Oct 20th, 2016

Do you know what a laser-generated focused ultrasound transducer is? Basically, it's a device that converts laser light into focused acoustic waves, which can in turn be used to move cell-sized tiny objects. It's a fascinating technology, and it's recently been improved upon. Led by Prof. Claus-Dieter Ohl, a team at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has created a 3D-printed lens that allows the transducers to operate with even more precision.

Oct 13th, 2016

Oct 06th, 2016

Engineers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a design for a functional nanoscale computing device. The concept involves a dense, three-dimensional circuit operating on an unconventional type of logic that could, theoretically, be packed into a block no bigger than 50 nanometers on any side.

Sep 30th, 2016

Sep 22th, 2016

Atsushi Shimizu is the inventor of the world’s first typhoon turbine—an extremely durable, eggbeater-shaped device that can not only withstand the awesome forces generated by a typhoon, it can convert all that power into useable energy. Shimizu’s calculations show that a sufficiently large array of his turbines could capture enough energy from a single typhoon to power Japan for 50 years.

Sep 15th, 2016

In Professor Dan Koditschek’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania, Avik De and Gavin Kenneally put a lot of work into developing their own quadruped robot, called Minitaur.

Sep 08th, 2016

Dwave's next quantum chip, due in 2017, will be able to handle 2,000 qubits which is double the usable number in the existing D-Wave 2X system chip. It will be capable of solving certain problems 1,000x faster than its predecessor.

Sep 01th, 2016

Now researchers at Boston College have developed a nanoscale wireless communication system that does just that. The key to the technology, as described in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, are antennas that can collect photons and reversibly convert them into surface plasmons with a high degree of control.