The sound of driving: VW plays a car's music (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) —Volkswagen calls its new concept "driving music reinvented" in the form of an app called Play the Road. We can think about the driver as a composer; we can think about the car as an...
View ArticleTo create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation
Intelligence is a very difficult concept and, until recently, no one has succeeded in giving it a satisfactory formal definition.
View ArticleUsing moving cars to measure rainfall
Drivers on a rainy day regulate the speed of their windshield wipers according to rain intensity: faster in heavy rain and slower in light rain. This simple observation has inspired researchers from...
View ArticleCarbon nanostructures grow under extreme particle bombardment
(Phys.org) —Nanostructures, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, can develop under far extremer plasma conditions than was previously thought. Plasmas (hot, charged gases) are already widely used to...
View ArticleDoD to get camouflaged bird-sized drones for recon missions
(Phys.org) —Last year, the US Army Rapid Equipping Force put out a request for proposal (RFP) for a small drone that would resemble a bird in flight. The government wanted a drone capable of fooling...
View ArticleNew simulatable model displaying exotic quantum phenomena
(Phys.org) —It is fascinating how quantum mechanical behavior of particles at smallest scales can give rise to strange properties that can be observed in the classical world. One example is the...
View ArticleAncient reptiles gathered in common latrine
Some large, grass-eating mammals, such as elephants, rhinos and camels, gather together not only when they eat, but also when they defecate.
View ArticleTechnology reveals what kind of shopper you are
U.S. marketers and mobile app developers have developed creative new ways to help shoppers find what they want for less. But these inventive techniques also allow for more aggressive tracking of...
View ArticleRock comet sprouts a tail
Astronomers have long been puzzled by a certain meteor shower.
View ArticleTyphoons spread Fukushima fallout, study warns
Typhoons that hit Japan each year are helping spread radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the country's waterways, researchers say.
View ArticleHarmonic holograms: High-speed three-dimensional imaging captures biological...
(Phys.org) —In the world of biomedical science, optical microscopy rules – and nonlinear optical microscopy, which uses ultrashort pulse lasers as the illumination source, allows researchers to glean...
View ArticleReversible wound closure: Dissolvable dendritic thioester hydrogel for...
In first-aid situations, wounds must be quickly and effectively closed to stop blood loss and prevent infection. For treatment on arrival in a hospital, the temporary seal must be reopened, which often...
View ArticleItalian company to sell portable cold fusion plant deliverable next year
(Phys.org) —Italian company Energy Catalyzer (shortened to ECAT) has announced that it is right now taking preorders for its ECAT 1MW portable cold fusion plant. Founded by Italian scientist Andrea...
View ArticleQuantitative approaches provide new perspective on development of antibiotic...
Using quantitative models of bacterial growth, a team of UC San Diego biophysicists has discovered the bizarre way by which antibiotic resistance allows bacteria to multiply in the presence of...
View ArticleResearchers find a missing component in effort to create primitive, synthetic...
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators working to create "protocells"– primitive synthetic cells consisting of a nucleic acid strand encased within a membrane-bound compartment –...
View ArticleStudy suggests why, in some species, mere presence of males shortens females'...
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that males of the laboratory roundworm secrete signaling molecules that significantly shorten the lifespan of the opposite sex.
View ArticleMost detailed picture ever of key part of hepatitis C
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have determined the most detailed picture yet of a crucial part of the hepatitis C virus, which the virus uses to infect liver cells. The new data...
View ArticleIron-based process promises greener, cheaper and safer drug and perfume...
University of Toronto researchers have developed a series of techniques to create a variety of very active iron-based catalysts necessary to produce the alcohols and amines used in the drug and perfume...
View ArticleFruit flies with better sex lives live longer
Sex may in fact be one of the secrets to good health, youth and a longer life – at least for fruit flies – suggests a new University of Michigan study that appears in the journal Science.
View ArticleScientists stitch up photosynthetic megacomplex
When sunlight strikes a photosynthesizing organism, energy flashes between proteins just beneath its surface until it is trapped as separated electric charges. Improbable as it may seem these tiny hits...
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