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Physicist's Tool Has Potential for Brain Mapping (The Brain)
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A new tool being developed by UT Arlington assistant professor of physics could help scientists map and track the interactions between neurons inside different areas of the brain.
posted: 22/05/2013
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New World Record in Wireless Data Transmission (Connectivity)
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Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved a wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmission. In the future, such radio links will be able to close gaps in providing broadband internet by supplementing the network in rural areas and places which are difficult to access.
posted: 22/05/2013
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Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results (Computing Power)
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Graphene has dazzled scientists, ever since its discovery more than a decade ago, with its unequalled electronic properties, its strength and its light weight. But one long-sought goal has proved elusive: how to engineer into graphene a property called a band gap, which would be necessary to use the material to make transistors and other electronic devices.
posted: 22/05/2013
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Penn Engineers’ Nanoantennas Improve Infrared Sensing (Display Technology)
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A team of University of Pennsylvania engineers has used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action, opening the door to more sensitive infrared cameras and more compact chemical-analysis techniques.
posted: 22/05/2013
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New study finds blind people have the potential to u se their ‘inner bat’ to locate objects (Sensors)
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New research from the University of Southampton has shown that blind and visually impaired people have the potential to use echolocation, similar to that used by bats and dolphins, to determine the location of an object.
posted: 22/05/2013
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UCSB Study Shows Where Scene Context Happens in our Brain (The Brain)
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In a remote fishing community in Venezuela, a lone fisherman sits on a cliff overlooking the southern Caribbean Sea. This man –– the lookout –– is responsible for directing his comrades on the water, who are too close to their target to detect their next catch. Using abilities honed by years of scanning the water's surface, he can tell by shadows, ripples, and even the behavior of seabirds, where the fish are schooling, and what kind of fish they might be, without actually seeing the fish. This, in turn, changes where the boats go, and how the men fish.
posted: 22/05/2013
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Opening Doors to Foldable Electronics with Inkjet-Printed Graphene (Computing Power)
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Northwestern University researchers have recently developed a graphene-based ink that is highly conductive and tolerant to bending, and they have used it to inkjet-print graphene patterns that could be used for extremely detailed, conductive electrodes.
posted: 22/05/2013
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University of Chicago Launches Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud to Analyze Cancer Data (Computing Power)
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The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data.
posted: 22/05/2013
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Google escalates the competition in map services (World Specific Developments)
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On Wednesday, Google unveiled a new Google Maps, by far the biggest redesign since it introduced Maps eight years ago, The New York Times reports.
posted: 17/05/2013
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Data storage: Synchronized at the write time (Computing Power)
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The rise of the internet and the move from paper to digital information has driven a need for large-volume electronic data storage. Maria Yu Lin and her co‐workers at the A*STAR Data Storage Institute, Singapore, have now established some important design principles to consider when developing bit patterned media recording (BPMR)1,2 — a potential high-density magnetic recording system of the future.
posted: 17/05/2013
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