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Ecology Jul 2, 2014

World's cocoa crop could get a big boost from a simple, non-toxic spray

Cocoa farmers this year will lose an estimated 30 to 40 percent of their crop to pests and disease, and with chocolate prices having risen globally by roughly two-thirds in the past decade, concern is growing about sustainability ...

Engineering May 30, 2014

Low cost and complexity real-time THz imaging may be within reach

Low cost and complexity real-time THz imaging may be within reach as work in the US combines commercially available digital light processing technology and compressed sensing to enhance coded aperture imaging.

Space Exploration May 18, 2014

ESA's new X-ray optics for observing the hot Universe

A new idea to use super-polished silicon wafers as the heart of a telescope is set to reveal more of the hot, high-energy Universe, peering back into its turbulent history.

Nanophysics Apr 9, 2014

JILA's short, flexible, reusable AFM probe

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº) —JILA researchers have engineered a short, flexible, reusable probe for the atomic force microscope (AFM) that enables state-of-the-art precision and stability in picoscale force measurements. Shorter, softer ...

Astronomy Mar 18, 2014

Building BICEP2: A conversation with Jamie Bock

Caltech Professor of Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the BICEP2 telescope ...

Materials Science Feb 21, 2014

3D construction: Microparticles made of three chemically independent patches

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº) —Micromachines, nanorobots, multifunctional drug transporters, and matrices for tissue growth – these and many other applications would benefit from three-dimensional microstructures that present different ...

Engineering Feb 18, 2014

Single chip device to provide real-time 3-D images from inside the heart, blood vessels

Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart, coronary arteries and peripheral blood vessels. With its ...

Engineering Dec 4, 2013

New chip provides better bioimaging performance

A microelectromechanical system developed in Singapore provides the 360-degree view that is critical in diagnostic imaging.

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Nov 22, 2013

New vacuum power amplifier demonstrated at 0.85 Terahertz

The submillimeter wave, or terahertz, part of the electromagnetic spectrum falls between the frequencies of 0.3 and 3 terahertz, between microwaves and infrared light. Historically, device physics has prevented traditional ...

Electronics & Semiconductors Nov 20, 2013

Monolithic ultrasonic integrated circuits

Ultrasonography based on traditional bulk piezoelectric transducers has been established as an inexpensive and safe medical imaging modality. By borrowing techniques from the microelectronics industry, the performance of ...

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