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Power sources for flexible, stretchable electronics

Electronic devices become smaller, lighter, faster and more powerful with each passing year. Currently, however, electronics such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc., are rigid. But what if they could be made bendable or stretchy?

Dec 12th, 2012

Chemical link for hearing and balance found that could aid deafness and vertigo treatments

Researchers have mapped the precise 3-D atomic structure of a thin protein filament critical for cells in the inner ear and calculated the force necessary to pull it apart.

Dec 12th, 2012

Capturing circulating cancer cells could provide insights into how disease spreads

A glass plate with a nanoscale roughness could be a simple way for scientists to capture and study the circulating tumor cells that carry cancer around the body through the bloodstream.

Dec 11th, 2012

Researchers cultivate green batteries from plant

Extract of madder plant works as environmentally friendly lithium-ion cathode.

Dec 11th, 2012

Paving the way for intelligent item-level RFID tagging to replace bar codes

World-first UHF IGZO Schottky diode is breakthrough achievement towards low-cost passive thin-film RFID tags.

Dec 11th, 2012

Hybrid approach sheds light on crystal structure solution

Researchers combine computational and experimental methods to understand the arrangement of atoms in solids.

Dec 11th, 2012

The path towards beyond-silicon devices

At this week's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2012), imec addressed key challenges of scaling beyond silicon-channel finFETs.

Dec 11th, 2012

Nanotechnology alternative to fullerenes in organic solar cells - just as exciting

An insight into the properties of fullerene is set to open the door to a new class of electronic acceptors which can be used to build better and cheaper organic solar cells.

Dec 11th, 2012

Space-age ceramics get their toughest test

Berkeley Lab researchers develop real-time CT-scan test rig for ceramic composites at ultrahigh temperatures.

Dec 11th, 2012

The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology welcomes its first 9-year old 'scientist'

Today, the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology partnered with Make-A-Wish Foundation Singapore to make a young girl's dream come true.

Dec 11th, 2012

NAND Flash technology scales further with ultra-thin hybrid floating gate cell

Imec announces that it has developed an ultra-thin hybrid floating gate cell with demonstrated functionality.

Dec 11th, 2012

Do we live in a computer simulation? Researchers say idea can be tested

A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that seems far-fetched, perhaps even incomprehensible, a team of physicists at the University of Washington has come up with a potential test to see if the idea holds water.