A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
Hubble celebrates 27 years with two close friends…
[caption id="attachment_12091" align="alignnone" width="617"] A close galactic pair. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Mutchler (STScI)[/caption] Since its launch on 24 April 1990, Hubble has been nothing short of a revolution in astronomy. The first orbiting…
Study finds amoeba “grazing,” killing bacteria usually protected…
[caption id="attachment_12087" align="alignright" width="409"] Tara Solger, a graduate student from Iran, works with Polysphondylium amoeba in the lab of Marcin Filutowicz, a professor of bacteriology at UW–Madison. DAVID TENENBAUM[/caption] Bacteria have developed an uncountable number…
Not stuck on silicon
Engineers use graphene as a “copy machine” to produce cheaper semiconductor wafers. [caption id="attachment_12084" align="alignnone" width="628"] (Left to right): Postdoc Kyusang Lee, Professor Jeehwan Kim (sitting), and graduate students Samuel Cruz and Yunjo Kim.Photo: Jose-Luis…
Graphene and gold make a better brain probe
A team from Korea created more flexible neural electrodes that minimize tissue damage and still transmit clear brain signals. [caption id="attachment_12080" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit : DGIST[/caption] Electrodes placed in the brain record neural activity, and…