Objective interestingness is a crucial factor in all context-aware systems as is self-evident from its name. The success of recognizing important and relevant environmental cues hinges on the system’s ability to evaluate that relevance. This is especially important in the post-processing stage of data mining…
A finding by a University of Central Florida researcher unlocks a means of controlling materials at the nanoscale and opens the door to a new generation of manufacturing…
It’s a user interface that goes far beyond graphical interaction and clumsy touchscreens. Today’s touch-based interfaces
It is a relatively well known fact that diamonds could make for pretty great semiconductors. They are thermally conductive, foregoing the need for bulky cooling, and they can handle high voltages and power…
Chemists at UC San Diego have created an “adaptive protein crystal” with a counterintuitive and potentially useful property: When stretched in one direction, the material thickens in the perpendicular direction, rather than thinning as familiar materials do…
Researchers can build complex, nanometer-scale structures of almost any shape and form, using strands of DNA. But these particles must be designed by hand, in a complex and laborious process. This has limited the technique, known as DNA origami, to just a small group of experts in the field…
Nowadays, wearable devices are everyday and mostly hard to get excited about, as useful as they are beyond their vanity features. Once in a while, however, a potential game-changer comes in with a proof of concept that makes an impression…
Glue with completely adjustable strength and viscosity? Immensely more useful than you might imagine. This novel adhesive pretty much erases the various issues that come up in manufacturing and repair: damp environments, vibrating surfaces, and materials with properties anywhere between…
Two-photon excitation microscopy was first observed in 1961. Although it was first theorized about back in 1930s, only the invention of laser made it possible. Then it had to wait another thirty years, when in the 1991 it was perfected as living tissue imaging method…
There is no shortage of research teams and start-ups that are heavily involved in Hyperloop, the concept of engineer and business magnate Elon Musk, that is set on connecting Bratislava and Vienna via a tube, transporting passengers on the 70km track in eight minutes…
