News on science & technology

 

 

Wireless energy research:

 

• Goodbye wires!: MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords - MIT news - June 7, 2007

 

• New printable devices can harvest ambient energy power small electronics - Popular science - 07.13.20

 

• Cota system transmits power wirelessly at up to 30 feet - gizmag - September 29, 2013

 

• New Approach Advances Wireless Power Transfer for Vehicles - North Carolina State University - 11.14.13

 

• Someday Your EV Charger May Be the Roadway Itself - A researcher envisions the ultimate cure for “range anxiety”: roadway-powered vehicles with modified on-board power receivers - MIT Technology Review - November 19, 2013

 

• 'Superlens' Extends Range of Wireless Power Transfer - Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University - January 9, 2014

 

• New theory suggests way to teleport energy long distances - phys.org - Jan 28, 2014

 

• Simplified: How does wireless charging work? - phonearena News - 03 Feb 2014

 

• Wireless power transfer to deep-tissue microimplants - Procedings of National Accademy of Science of the United States of America - April 3, 2014

 

• Apple Engineers Patent System For Wireless Power - Forbes - 8/06/2014

 

• Making a wire-free future: WiTricity’s wireless charging technology is coming soon to mobile devices, electric cars, and more - MIT News - July 10, 2014

 

• No-power Wi-Fi connectivity could fuel Internet of Things reality - University of Washington - August 4, 2014

 

• Stanford engineer aims to connect the world with ant-size radios - Stanford University - September 9, 2014

 

• A world of wireless power  WiTricity brings wireless power to electrical cars, consumer electronics, and other applications that currently require clumsy cables or chargers - MIT News - October 28, 2014

 

• Wireless charging system on cusp of commercialization - phys.org - Jan 21, 2015

 

• 2015: The year of wireless power? - BBC News - 3 February 2015

 

• Japan space scientists make wireless energy breakthrough - phys.org - April 23, 2015

 

• Texas Instruments Supplies Wireless Charging To Samsung's Galaxy S6 - Forbes - 4/29/2015

 

• Energy harnessed from humidity can power small devices: Experiments are among first to show that humidity can be a viable energy source - Sciencemag - 16 June 2015

 

• Omnidirectional free space wireless charging of multiple wireless devices: Simultaneous charging of multiple mobile devices at half meter away from power source - Sciencedaily - July 7, 2015

 

• Quasi-Static Magnetic Field Shielding Using Longitudinal Mu-Near-Zero Metamaterials - Nature News - 03 August 2015

 

• Off road trials for “electric highways” technology - Gov.UK - 11 August 2015

 

• Wireless power transfer tech: Trials set for England's offroads - Techxplore - August 12, 2015

 

• Wireless charging and discharging for electric vehicles - phys.org - September 1, 2015

 

• Interface-Free Area-Scalable Self-Powered Electroluminescent System Driven by Triboelectric Generator - Nature News - 04 September 2015

 

• Popular Science names ‘Power Over Wi-Fi’ one of the year’s game-changing technologies: University of Washington engineers have developed a novel technology that uses a Wi-Fi router - * - University of Washington -  November 18, 2015

 

• Scientists propose high-efficiency wireless power transfer system - phys.org - January 26, 2016

 

 

Telecomunications:

 

• See-through-wall surveillance with WiFi shown at UCL - phys.org - Aug 03, 2012

 

• NASA Tests Radio for Unmanned Aircraft Operations - NASA News - June 14, 2013

 

• Cellphone towers could predict flooding - Sciencemag - 3 September 2014

 

• Inflatable antennae could give CubeSats greater reach - MIT News- September 6, 2013

 

• First Broadband Wireless Connection…to the Moon?! - cleoconference - 22 May 2014

 

• Switchable Scattering Meta-Surfaces for Broadband Terahertz Modulation - Nature News - 16 July 2014

 

• Stanford engineer aims to connect the world with ant-size radios - Stanford University - September 9, 2014

 

• High-capacity millimetre-wave communications with orbital angular momentum multiplexing - Nature News (Comunications) - 16 September 2014

 

• Sensor invented that uses radio waves to detect subtle changes in pressure - Sciencedaily - October 10, 2014

 

• Taxi GPS data helps researchers study Hurricane Sandy's effect on NYC traffic - Sciencedaily - October 27, 2014

 

• Lighter, cheaper radio wave device could transform telecommunications - phys.org - Nov 10, 2014

 

• SpaceX chief Elon Musk eyes Internet satellites - phys.org - Nov 11, 2014

 

• SpaceX chief Musk confirms Internet satellite plan - phys.org - Nov 11, 2014

 

• Hiding in plain sight: Elusive dark matter may be detected with GPS satellites - Sciencedaily - November 17, 2014

 

• Engineers make sound loud enough to bend light on a computer chip: Device could improve wireless communications systems - Sciencedaily - November 26, 2014

 

• Mobile radio passive radar makes harbors safer - Sciencedaily - December 15, 2014

 

• Elon Musk wants to bring the Internet to Mars - phys.org -Jan 20, 2015

 

• Study of atmospheric 'froth' may help GPS communications - Sciencedaily - February 26, 2015

 

• New technology may double radio frequency data capacity - Sciencedaily - March 13, 2015

 

• New understanding of electromagnetism could enable 'antennas on a chip' - Sciencedaily - April 9, 2015

 

• Wearable wireless devices: Low cost radio frequency antenna printed with graphene ink - Sciencedaily - May 15, 2015

 

• New technology could fundamentally change future wireless communications - Sciencedaily - May 20, 2015

 

• Communicating with hypersonic vehicles in flight - Sciencedaily - June 16, 2015

 

• Breaking the light barrier: Trick for pushing more bits through optical fibers could ease looming "capacity crunch" - Sciencemag - 25 June 2015

 

• Rice tests wireless data delivery over active TV channels - Rice University News & Media - July 13, 2015

 

• Space's Top 40: How CubeSats are Revolutionizing Radio Science - NASA News - August 11, 2015

 

• Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly - phys.org - September 1, 2015

 

• NASA Television to Air CubeSat Launch Events - NASA News - Oct. 7, 2015

 

• NASA Invites Media to Talk to Small Satellite Experts, Tour Labs - NASA News - Oct. 19, 2015

 

 

Future of transport:

 

• BMW Hydrogen 7 Emissions Well-below Super-ultra Low-emission Vehicle Standards, Government Tests Confirm - Science Daily - March 31, 2008

 

• High Torque Electric Motor Being Tested - Science Daily - May 27, 2009

 

• Electric cars are going places - Science Daily - February 11, 2010

 

• GM working on Wi-Fi Direct application to prevent vehicle/pedestrian accidents - phys.org -Jul 27, 2012

 

• Charging electric vehicles cheaper and faster - Sciencedaily - April 30, 2013

 

• GM says almost-driverless cars coming by 2020 - phys.org - Aug 28, 2013

 

• Crowd called to power Hyperloop high-speed transport - phys.org - Aug 29, 2013

 

• Honda demonstrates new technology to prevent cars hitting pedestrians - phys.org - Sept. 4, 2013

 

• Toyota developing free piston engine linear generator for hybrid cars - FoxNews.com - May 02, 2014

 

• First electric car race to zoom off on Saturday - phys.org - September 12, 2014

 

• Research project on accident-avoiding vehicle concluded - phys.org - September 12, 2014

 

• No danger from magnetic fields in electric cars - SINTEF - June 10, 2014

 

• Stanford scientists develop water splitter that runs on an ordinary AAA battery - Stanford University - Aug. 22, 2014

 

• Students successful in electric car world record attempt - MIT News - 23 July 2014

 

• Engineers develop algorithms to switch out and recharge battery modules in electric cars - Sciencedaily - September 17, 2014

 

• Developing a Body Sensor Network to Detect Emotions During Driving - researchgate.net - Sep 19, 2014

 

• Direct Vision trucks would save hundreds of lives, says study - Sciencedaily - September 23, 2014

 

• Greater range for electric vehicles: Two-in-one motor - Sciencedaily - September 30, 2014

 

• E-car sharing comes of age - Sciencedaily - October 7, 2014

 

• Using autonomous vehicles to improve traffic flow - Sciencedaily - October 8, 2014

 

• Engineering new, efficient vehicle powertrains - Sciencedaily - October 9, 2014

 

• Miniature camera may lead to fewer accidents - Sciencedaily - October 9, 2014

 

• Electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package - Sciencedaily - October 14, 2014

 

• Researchers take big-data approach to estimate range of electric vehicles - Science Daily - October 21, 2014

 

• First driverless vehicles for public launched in Singapore - Science Daily - October 21, 2014

 

• With phased-array radar technologies, electrical engineers aim to make car travel safer - phys.org - October 28, 2014

 

• ‘grimsel’ breaks world record - ETHZürich - 03.11.2014

 

• Electric cars without drivers - Fraunhofer - Nov 03, 2014

 

• New two-stroke engine, notable for its low consumption and low level of pollutant emissions - Science Daily - November 3, 2014

 

• Panel-powered car under development - Science Daily - November 6, 2014

 

• Long-lived catalyst facilitates first steps toward viable small-scale on-board hydrogen generator - Science Daily - November 8, 2014

 

• This Electric Bus Is Powered by the Road: A wireless charging pad embedded in the roadway sends electricity to the bus' battery, letting the vehicle run all day - Takepart.com - November 11, 2014

 

• Network physicists create model to predict traffic patterns - Science Daily - November 11, 2014

 

• From video camera to driverless shuttle vehicle - Science Daily - November 12, 2014

 

• Electric cars without drivers - Science Daily - November 12, 2014

 

• New model to detect aggressive driving - Science Daily - December 4, 2014

 

• Switching to vehicles powered by electricity from renewables could save lives - Science Daily - December 15, 2014

 

• Singapore Wants a Driverless Version of Uber: Singapore plans to let anyone test driverless cars in one of its busy neighborhoods in 2015 - MIT Technology Review - December 23, 2014

 

• GM plans affordable 200-mile electric car in 2017 - phys.org - Jan 10, 2015

 

• GM's new electric could upstage Tesla—and its own Volt (Update 2) - phys.org - Jan 12, 2015

 

• Can GM Go from Volt to Bolt?: GM revealed a concept all-electric hatchback today that it claims will have a 200-mile range - MIT Technology Review - January 12, 2015
  

 

• Chemist one step closer to a new generation of electric car battery - Science Daily - January 12, 2015

 

• Toward nano-powered cars - phys.org -Jan 14, 2015

 

• Tesla's Musk: fracking threatens electric cars - phys.org -Jan 14, 2015

 

• Programming safety into self-driving cars: Better AI algorithms for semi-autonomous vehicles - Science Daily - February 4, 2015

 

• Security: Protecting customers charging electric vehicles on smart electricity grids - Science Daily - February 4, 2015

 

• Controlling car pollution at the quantum level - Science Daily - February 16, 2015

 

• Apple hiring spree indicates the company is working on an electric car - Theguardian - 20 February 2015

 

• Electric-car driving range and emissions depend on where you live - Science Daily - February 25, 2015

 

• Electrically conductive concrete to clear snow and ice from runways - Science Daily - March 2, 2015

 

• Goodbye, range anxiety? Electric vehicles may be more useful than previously thought - Science Daily - March 30, 2015

 

• Road revolution by connecting vehicles: Computational framework for optimizing traffic flow - Science Daily - April 2, 2015

 

• How Google is making sure cows won’t foil its self-driving cars - The washington post - April 07, 2015

 

• Cost-efficiency of plug-in hybrids calculated a thousand times faster - Science Daily - April 21, 2015

 

• Vehicle cost, lack of consumer information hinder purchases of plug-in electric vehicles - Science Daily - April 22, 2015

 

• Recharging electric vehicles in private - Science Daily - May 27, 2015

 

• Fast charging electric bus does overtime - Science Daily - June 2, 2015

 

• Audi Nears Production of First Piloted Driving Car With New Concept - GTSpirit - 14/07/2015

 

• Will your self-driving car be programmed to kill you if it means saving more strangers? - Science Daily - June 15, 2015

 

• Car of the future: Autonomous, or cooperative - Science Daily - June 22, 2015

 

• Off road trials for “electric highways” technology - Gov.UK - 11 August 2015

 

• Wireless power transfer tech: Trials set for England's offroads - Techxplore - August 12, 2015

 

• Tesla car gets best-ever rating from Consumer Reports - phys.org - August 27, 2015

 

• Wind-powered train travel is on Dutch rail schedule - Techxplore - August 28, 2015

 

• Wireless charging and discharging for electric vehicles - phys.org - September 1, 2015

 

• Efficient heating for electric cars - phys.org - September 2, 2015

 

• German automakers take on Tesla in electric cars - phys.org - September 15, 2015

 

• Toyota launches hydrogen-fueled sedan - phys.org - September 15, 2015

 

• What's the best way to charge millions of electric vehicles at once? - phys.org - September 16, 2015

 

• Hacking sends shivers through brave new world of digital cars - phys.org - September 18, 2015

 

• Apple explores rules of the road for self-driving cars - phys.org - September 19, 2015

 

• How can people safely take control from a self-driving car? - phys.org - November 30, 2015

 

• Tesla races into third position in innovation survey - phys.org - December 2, 2015

 

• Tesla boss sees bumpy road ahead for electric cars - phys.org - January 26, 2016

 

• Three tracks planned to test 'hyperloop' transportation idea - phys.org - January 27, 2016

 

• Dutch test first self-drive minibuses January - phys.org - 28, 2016

 

• MIT wins design competition for Elon Musk's Hyperloop - phys.org - January 31, 2016

 
 

Future of renewable energy sources:

 

• New solar technology could break photovoltaic limits - University of Missouri (MU)- May 16, 2011

 

• UConn Professor’s Patented Technique Key to New Solar Power Technology - UCONN Today - February 4, 2013

 

• Novel combination ensures entire solar spectrum harnessed - phys.org - Aug 28, 2013

 

• Fusion instabilities lessened by unexpected effect - Sandia Labs News Releases - January 9, 2014

 

• Infrared: A new renewable energy source? - Harvard school of engineering and applied sciences - March 3, 2014

 

• Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water condensing and jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity - MIT News - July 14, 2014

 

• Plasma physics: The fusion upstarts: Fuelled by venture capital and a lot of hope, alternative fusion technologies are heating up - Nature News - 23 July 2014

 

• Running on waste heat: Gang Chen’s thermoelectric devices turn waste heat into electricity for vehicles and other machine - MIT News - August 8, 2014

 

• The power of salt: MIT study investigates power generation from the meeting of river water and seawate - MIT News - August 20, 2014

 

• Waste, an alternative source of energy to petroleum - Science Daily - October 23, 2014

 

• NTU to build region’s first renewable energy integration demonstration micro-grid - Nanyang Technological University - 28-Oct-2014

 

• New technique for generating electricity - Science Daily - November 10, 2014

 

• Matched 'hybrid' systems may hold key to wider use of renewable energy - Science Daily - November 26, 2014

 

• Young entrepreneurs innovate in green energy with an in situ organic waste digester - Science Daily - December 24, 2014

 

• Feature: The new shape of fusion  After decades of slow progress with doughnut-shaped reactors, magnetic fusion labs are gambling on a redesign - Sciencemag - 21 May 2015

 

• Hawaii’s Solar Push Strains the Grid: Kauai’s utility takes a second stab at battery storage as solar heads toward 80 percent of peak power - MIT Technology Review - January 20, 2015

 

• Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy: California-based Tri Alpha Energy has shown a 10-fold improvement in its ability to contain the hot particles needed for fusion - Sciencemag - 2 June 2015

 

• Viaducts with wind turbines, the new renewable energy source - Sinc - June 30 2015

 

• Celebrating Hawaii ocean thermal energy conversion power plant - Techxplore - August 25, 2015

 

• Fuel savings can pay for green energy shift - phys.org - September 21, 2015

 

• Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotube Arrays for High-Efficiency Electrochemical Reduction of CO2: On the Understanding of Defects, Defect Density, and Selectivity - Wiley Online Library - 25 September 2015

 

• Explaining a mysterious barrier to fusion known as the 'density limit' - phys.org - November 10, 2015

 

• Discovery of a new confinement state for plasma - Science Daily - November 11, 2015

 

• New Super H-mode regime could greatly increase fusion power: Researchers successfully pursue a theoretically predicted tokamak plasma state, taking performance to a higher level - Science Daily - November 11, 2015

 

• Eurasian Super Grid for 100% Renewable Energy power supply: Generation and storage technologies in the cost optimal mix - ResearchGate - Nov 12, 2015

 

• Accelerating fusion research through the cutting edge supercomputer: Difference of particles species suppresses plasma turbulence - Science Daily - November 16, 2015

 

• Fusion power: Unlimited, free energy that harnesses the power of the Sun - Progress is coming and it will bring abundant, clean, safe energy with it - International Business Times - December 1, 2016

 

 

Batteries and energy efficiency:

 

• Nanowire battery can hold 10 times the charge of existing lithium-ion battery - Standford News - December 18, 2007

 

• Nano Flakes May Revolutionize Solar Cells - Science Daily - December 19, 2007

 

• Nano magnets for spintronics battery - computescotland.com - 12th March 2009

 

• Thin Red Line Aerospace completes first Undersea Energy Storage Structure - Thin Red Line Aerospace Press release - May 3, 2011

 

• New solar technology could break photovoltaic limits - University of Missouri (MU) - May 16, 2011

 

• New solar product captures up to 95 percent of light energy - phys.org - May 16, 2011

 

• Nanoantenna reinvents solar energy - University of Missouri (MU) - August 22nd, 2011

 

• Stanford's battery-life research steps into economy class - phys.org - Oct 25, 2012

 

• Nanowire solar cells raises efficiency limit - Niels Bohr Institute - 24 March 2013

 

• Wind power - even without the wind - MIT news - April 25, 2013

 

• Clever MIT floating wind turbines can store power for when the wind doesn't blow - treehugger.com - April 29, 2013

 

• Energy storage under the sea: New pumped hydro design floated - reneweconomy - 22 May 2013

 

• Active and stable carbon nanotube/nanoparticle composite electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction - Nature News - 28 May 2013

 

• Designer Glue Improves Lithium-ion Battery Life - SLAC - August 19, 2013

 

• Novel combination ensures entire solar spectrum harnessed - phys.org - Aug 28, 2013

 

• Solvothermal Synthesis, Development, and Performance of LiFePO4 Nanostructures - acs Publications - October 9, 2013

 

• Holistic Cell Design by Berkeley Lab Scientists Leads to High-Performance, Long Cycle-Life Lithium-Sulfur Battery - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - November 19, 2013

 

• Will 2-D Tin be the Next Super Material? - SLAC - November 21, 2013

 

• Engineering antennas into solar panels - phys.org - Dec 02, 2013

 

• New generator creates electricity directly from heat - physicsworld - Dec 9, 2013

 

• Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells via Vapor-Assisted Solution Process - Journal of the American Chemical Society - December 20, 2013

 

• Synthetic natural gas from excess electricity - Research Institute of the ETH Domain - 6 January 2014

 

• Disordered materials hold promise for better batteries - MIT News - January 9, 2014

 

• How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light - MIT news - January 19, 2014

 

• Nanoscale pillars could radically improve conversion of heat to electricity, say CU-Boulder researchers - University of Colorado Boulder - February 20, 2014

 

• Nano-engineered composites promise a boost in efficiency in next-generation solar cells - Umeå University - 2014-03-27

 

• Spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory technologies for normally off computing - scitation.aip (Journal of Applied Physics) - 08 abril 2014.

 

• A molecular approach to solar power - MIT news - April 13, 2014

 

• Improved performance and stability in quantum dot solar cells through band alignment engineering - Nature News - 25 May 2014

 

• Scalable Synthesis of Nano-Silicon from Beach Sand for Long Cycle Life Li-ion Batteries - Nature News - 08 July 2014

 

• Reduction of thermal conductivity in porous “gray” materials - AIP.scitation - 15 july 2014

 

• Researchers discover cool-burning flames in space that could lead to better engines here on earth - UC San Diego (Jacob School of Engineering) - July 28, 2014
  

 

• Recycling old batteries into solar cells: Proposal could divert a dangerous waste stream while producing low-cost photovoltaics - MIT news - August 18, 2014

 

• Environmentally-Friendly Lithium Recycling From a Spent Organic Li-Ion Battery - Wiley Online Library - 29 AUG 2014

 

• Physicists find a new way to push electrons around: Discovery might ultimately lead to new, more energy-efficient transistors and microchips - MIT news - September 11, 2014

 

• New family of materials for energy-efficient information storage and processing - phys.org - September 12, 2014

 

• Quantum mechanics to charge your laptop? - phys.org - September 18, 2014

 

• New formulation leads to improved liquid battery - MIT news - September 21, 2014

 

• Magnetic fields make the excitons go ’round: Theorists find a new way to improve efficiency of solar cells by overcoming exciton “traps” - MIT news - September 21, 2014

 

• Harvesting hydrogen fuel from the Sun using Earth-abundant materials - phys.org - September 25, 2014

 

• Smart, eco-friendly new battery made of seeds and pine resin - Science Daily - September 29, 2014

 

• How to make a “perfect” solar absorber: New system aims to harness the full spectrum of available solar radiation - MIT news - September 29, 2014

 

• How to make a 'perfect' solar absorber - Science Daily - September 30, 2014

 

• Crumpled graphene could provide an unconventional energy storage: Two-dimensional carbon “paper” can form stretchable supercapacitors to power flexible electronic devices - MIT news - October 3, 2014

 

• Electrically conductive plastics promising for batteries, transparent solar cells - Science Daily - October 9, 2014

 

• Ultra-fast charging batteries that can be 70% recharged in just two minutes - Science Daily - October 13, 2014

 

• Super stable garnet ceramics may be ideal for high-energy lithium batteries - Science Daily - October 21, 2014

 

• Strongly interacting electrons turn oxide interfaces into magnetically controlled and extra-efficient solar cells - phys.org - October 21, 2014

 

• Li-ion batteries contain toxic halogens, but environmentally friendly alternatives exist - Science Daily - October 24, 2014

 

• Beating battery drain: Startup’s power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life, save energy in cell towers - MIT news - October 28, 2014

 

• Harnessing error-prone chips: New system would allow programmers to easily trade computational accuracy for energy savings - MIT news - October 30, 2014

 

• New way to make batteries safer  Coating prevents electrical current from damaging the digestive tract after battery ingestion - MIT news - November 3, 2014

 

• Jet-fueled electricity at room temperature: Fuel cell can run without high heat - Science Daily - November 5, 2014

 

• Chemical engineers borrow technique to store solar energy - phys.org - Nov 06, 2014

 

• A billion holes can make a battery - Science Daily - November 10, 2014

 

• Nanocoils make batteries stretchy - Nature News - 12 November 2014

 

• Clean energy 'bio batteries' a step closer - Science Daily - November 19, 2014

 

• Improved nanomaterials: Understanding surface structure of quantum dots will aid design of new solar devices - Science Daily - November 20, 2014

 

• Magneto-ionic control of interfacial magnetism - Nature News -17 November 2014

 

• Quantum spin Hall effect in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides - Sciencemag - November 20 2014

 

• New battery composed of lots of nanobatteries - arstechnica - Nov 23 2014

 

• Building a better battery - phys.org - November 25, 2014

 

• Superbatteries Combine Capacitor, Battery Technologies - Engineering - November 25, 2014

 

• Shaping the future of energy storage with conductive clay - Science Daily -November 26, 2014

 

• New electrolyte for construction of magnesium-sulfur batteries - Science Daily - November 27, 2014

 

• Single-atom gold catalysts may offer path to low-cost production of fuel and chemicals - Science Daily - November 27, 2014

 

• Lengthening life of high capacity silicon electrodes in rechargeable lithium batteries with novel rubber-like coating - Science Daily - December 2, 2014

 

• Low-grade waste heat regenerates ammonia battery - Science Daily - December 3, 2014

 

• UNSW researchers set world record in solar energy efficiency - UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales) - 08 December 2014

 

• Scientists resolve spin puzzle - Science Daily - December 10, 2014

 

• Future batteries: Lithium-sulfur with a graphene wrapper - Science Daily - December 16, 2014

 

• Chip-Making Tools Produce Ultra-Efficient Solar Cells: Equipment for making microchips has led to solar cells that are twice as efficient as conventional ones - MIT Technology Review - December 16, 2014

 

• Improving rechargeable batteries by focusing on graphene oxide paper - Science Daily - December 18, 2014

 

• Glimpsing pathway of sunlight to electricity - Science Daily - December 18, 2014

 

• Computational clues into the structure of a promising energy conversion catalyst - Science Daily - December 18, 2014

 

• Possible avenue to better electrolyte for lithium ion batteries - Science Daily - December 19, 2014

 

• Quantum world without queues could lead to better solar cells - Science Daily - December 19, 2014

 

• A Prototype Battery Could Double the Range of Electric Cars: Startup Seeo has developed batteries that store far more energy than conventional ones, which could extend the range of electric cars - MIT Technology Review - December 23, 2014

 

• How Tesla Boosted Its Roadster’s Range by 50 Percent: An upgrade to the Roadster extends its range and shows how far battery technology has come - MIT Technology Review - December 30, 2014

 

• Grid Batteries for Wind, Solar Find First Customers: Niche applications will help advanced power-grid-battery technology - MIT Technology Review - January 8, 2015

 

• Improved solar panels and printed electronics on the horizon with new material discovery - Science Daily - January 15, 2015

 

• The first public lighting system that runs on solar and wind energy - phys.org - Jan 20, 2015

 

• New technique for producing cheaper solar energy suggested by research - Sciencedaily - January 23, 2015

 

• Skin device uses motion to power electronics - phys.org - Jan 29, 2015

 

• New technique for growing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells - Sciencedaily - January 29, 2015

 

• A Battery for Electronics That Lasts Twice as Long: A startup called SolidEnergy has developed a kind of lithium-ion battery that stores far more energy - MIT Technology Review - February 2, 2015

 

• New paper-like material could boost electric vehicle batteries - Sciencedaily - February 18, 2015

 

• New flow battery to keep big cities lit, green and safe - Science Daily - February 25, 2015

 

• Lithium from the coal in China - Science Daily - February 26, 2015

 

• The biobattery: Turning sewage sludge into electricity and engine oil - Sciencedaily - February 27, 2015

 

• Longer life cycle for lithium-ion batteries? - Sciencedaily - March 6, 2015

 

• High power and high safety oxide-based negative electrode materials for Li-ion battery - Sciencedaily - March 13, 2015

 

• Density of lithium storage materials increased - Sciencedaily - March 16, 2015

 

• Scientists move closer to 'two for one deal' on solar cell efficiency - Sciencedaily - March 16, 2015

 

• Materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries - Science Daily - March 17, 2015

 

• Discovery could yield more efficient portable electronics, solar cells - Sciencedaily - March 23, 2015

 

• New kind of 'tandem' solar cell: Two types of photovoltaic material combined to make a cell that harnesses more sunlight - Sciencedaily - March 24, 2015

 

• Battery energy storage project shows promise for electricity network - Sciencedaily - April 2, 2015

 

• Ultrafast aluminum battery offers safe alternative to conventional batteries - Sciencedaily - April 6, 2015

 

• Harvesting energy from electromagnetic waves - Sciencedaily - April 14, 2015

 

• Beyond the lithium ion: Significant step toward a better performing battery - Sciencedaily - April 17, 2015

 

• 'Holey' graphene for energy storage: Charged holes in graphene increase energy storage capacity - Sciencedaily - April 22, 2015

 

• Electricity generating nano-wizards - Science Daily - May 18, 2015

 

• Tiny grains of lithium dramatically improve performance of fusion plasma - Science Daily - May 20, 2015

 

• Precision nanobatteries by the billions - Science Daily - May 21, 2015

 

• Mexican Scientist turns Windows into Efficient Solar Panels - Theyucatantimes - Jun 17th, 2015

 

• Long-lived photoinduced polaron formation in conjugated polyelectrolyte-fullerene assemblies - Sciencemag - 19 June 2015

 

• Aqueous Lithium–Iodine Solar Flow Battery for the Simultaneous Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy - Journal of the American Chemical Society - June 23, 2015

 

• New manufacturing approach slices lithium-ion battery cost in half - phys.org - June 23, 2015

 

• Researchers stretch a thin crystal to get better solar cells: Crystalline semiconductors like silicon can catch photons and convert their energy into electron flows - Science Daily - June 25, 2015

 

• New method can make cheaper solar energy storage - Science Daily - July 1, 2015

 

• New lithium ion battery is safer, tougher, and more powerful - Science Daily - July 3, 2015

 

• Depletion, enrichment of chlorine in perovskites observed - Science Daily - July 9, 2015

 

• Future deployment of distributed solar hinges on electricity rate design - Science Daily - July 9, 2015

 

• New design could dramatically boost efficiency of low-cost solar panels - Science Daily - July 12, 2015

 

• ARC: A compact, high-field, fusion nuclear science facility and demonstration power plant with demountable magnets - Science Direct - 14 July 2015

 

• Spintronics: Molecules stabilizing magnetism - Science Daily - July 21, 2015

 

• Reshaping the solar spectrum to turn light into electricity Infrared region of the sun's spectrum used to make solar cells more efficient - Science Daily - July 27, 2015

 

• Butterflies heat up the field of solar research - Science Daily - July 31, 2015

 

• High-rate aluminium yolk-shell nanoparticle anode for Li-ion battery with long cycle life and ultrahigh capacity - Nature News - 05 August 2015

 

• New technology could reduce wind energy costs - phys.org - August 13, 2015

 

• Design principles for solid-state lithium superionic conductors - Nature News - 17 August 2015

 

• New module lowers the cost of offshore wind power - phys.org - August 26, 2015

 

• Recovering low-temperature waste heat and converting it into electricity - phys.org - August 26, 2015

 

• As wind-turbine farms expand, research shows they could offer diminishing returns - phys.org - August 31, 2015

 

• Insight into Evolution, Processing and Performance of Multi-length-scale Structures in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells - Nature News - 04 September 2015

 

• What's the best way to charge millions of electric vehicles at once? - phys.org - September 16, 2015

 

• Wind turbine system recycles 'spillage' to improve energy efficiency - phys.org - September 17, 2015

 

• Engineers invent transparent coating that cools solar cells to boost efficiency - phys.org - September 21, 2015

 

• First Optical Rectenna – Combined Rectifier and Antenna – Converts Light to DC Current - Georgia Institute of Technology - September 28, 2015

 

• Battery experiments highlight Stanford's dual mission of teaching and research - Stanford University - October 1, 2015

 

• Photovoltaic System Performance Enhancement With Nontracking Planar Concentrators: Experimental Results and Bidirectional Reflectance Function (BDRF)-Based Modeling - IEEExplore Digital Library - 07 Octobre 2015

 

• The mechanism behind a process known as singlet fission, which could drive the development of highly efficient solar cells, has been directly observed by researchers for the first time - University of Cambridge - 26 Oct 2015

 

• New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery - University of Cambridge - 29 Oct 2015

 

• Quantum dots made from fool's gold boost battery performance: Vanderbilt engineers have discovered that adding quantum dots made from fool's gold to the electrodes of standard lithium batteries can substantially boost their performance - Science Daily - November 12, 2015

 

• New Technique Could Harvest More of the Sun's Energy - California Institute of Technology - 11/26/2014

 

• Harnessing the energy of small bending motions: New device could provide electrical power source from walking and other ambient motions - MIT news - January 6, 2016

 

• A battery made of molten metals: New battery may offer low-cost, long-lasting storage for the grid - MIT news - January 12, 2016

 

• Putting silicon 'sawdust' in a graphene cage boosts battery performance - phys.org - January 28, 2016

 

 

Superconductivity:

 

• The science that stumped Einstein - phys.org - Jul 01, 2014

 

• New evidence for an exotic, predicted superconducting state - phys.org - Oct 26, 2014

 

• Team develops computational model for predicting superconductivity - phys.org - Nov 03, 2014

 

• Superconductivity without cooling - phys.org - Dec 04, 2014

 

• Unusual electronic state found in new class of unconventional superconductors - phys.org - Dec 08, 2014

 

• First direct evidence that a mysterious phase of matter competes with high-temperature superconductivity - Science Daily - December 20, 2014

 

• Universality of charge order in cuprate superconductors - Science Daily - December 22, 2014

 

• New superconducting hybrid crystals - Science Daily - January 12, 2015

 

• Visualizing how radiation bombardment boosts superconductivity - Science Daily - May 22, 2015

 

• Quantum magnetic ordering: Moving out of equilibrium - Science Daily - May 27, 2015

 

• Linking superconductivity and structure - Science Daily - May 27, 2015

 

• Physicists map electron structure of superconductivity’s 'doppelgänger' - Science Daily - June 1, 2015

 

• High-temperature superconductivity in atomically thin films - Science Daily - June 2, 2015

 

• Topological Superconductivity and High Chern Numbers in 2D Ferromagnetic Shiba Lattices - APS Physics - 12 June 2015

 

• Aalto University researchers predicted existence of new quantum matter theoretically - Aalto University - 17.06.2015

 

• Stinky hydrogen sulfide smashes superconductivity record: Electricity flows without resistance at record high temperature - Sciencemag - 17 Aug 2015

 

• A new dimension to high-temperature superconductivity discovered - phys.org - November 5, 2015

 

•  NbSe2, a true 2-D superconductor - phys.org - November 6, 2015

 

• Breakthrough in superconducting materials opens new path to fusion: New high-temperature superconducting materials are also compatible with high magnetic fields - Science Daily - November 10, 2015

 

• Superconductor survives ultra-high magnetic field - phys.org - November 12, 2015

 

•  Superfluidity in topologically nontrivial flat bands - phys.org - November 20, 2015

 

• Scientists explain the theory behind Ising superconductivity - phys.org - November 23, 2015

 

• Physicists explain the unusual behavior of strongly disordered superconductors - phys.org - November 24, 2015

 

 

Biomass & Biotechnology:

 

• XAX1 from glycosyltransferase family 61 mediates xylosyltransfer to rice xylan - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS - August 31, 2012

 

• Ancient diatoms could make biofuels, electronics and health food - Oregon State University - 09/17/2012

 

• Mutation of the Xylanase regulator 1 causes a glucose blind hydrolase expressing phenotype in industrially used Trichoderma strains - Biotechnology for Biofuels - 2013

 

• Enhancing Biofuel Yields from Biomass with Novel New Method - University of California, Riverside - August 4, 2014

 

• Steam explosion of oilseed rape straw: Establishing key determinants of saccharification efficiency - ScienceDirect - 31 March 2014

 

• Direct catalytic conversion of cellulose to liquid straight-chain alkanes - Royal Society of Chemistry - 09 Sep 2014

 

• A synergistic biorefinery based on catalytic conversion of lignin prior to cellulose starting from lignocellulosic biomass - Royal Society of Chemistry - 10 Dec 2014

 

• Researchers' recipe: Cook farm waste into energy - Science Daily - December 18, 2014

 

• Study fuels hope for natural gas cars: Metal organic framework candidates for methane storage identified - Science Daily - December 18, 2014

 

• Plant genetic advance could lead to more efficient conversion of plant biomass to biofuels - Science Daily - January 2, 2015

 

• Renewable biofuel production avoids competition with food resources - phys.org - Jan 29, 2015

 

• Electronic plants - Sciencemag - 20 Nov 2015

 

 

Robots & automatic systems:

 

• First successful 'spoofing' of unmanned aerial vehicles - ScienceDaily - June 29, 2012

 

• Underwater Robots To Help Coral Reefs Recover - Industrytap - July 28th, 2013

 

• This Robot Just Won The DARPA Robotics Challenge - Popular science - 12.23.2013

 

• A Micro-Muscular Break Through - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - December 19, 2013

 

• Ladies And Gentlemen, Boot Your Robots! - NASA News - January 13, 2014

 

• Robots May Replace One-Fourth Of U.S. Combat Soldiers By 2030, Says General - Popular science - 01.22.2014

 

• Ames Team to Use Robots, Humans to Study Impact Sites and Volcanoes Selected to Join New Virtual Research Institute - NASA News - January 28, 2014

 

• Unmanned Aircraft: Countdown to Mission Possible - QUAS (Queensland Unmanned Aircraft System) - 06 February 2014

 

• Space Station SPHERES Run Circles Around Ordinary Satellites - NASA - February 14, 2014

 

• Robots will become soft and move like biological organisms - SISSA - 26/02/2014

 

• NASA Robots Showcased at Silicon Valley Robotics' 'Robot Block Party' - NASA News - April 7, 2014

 

• Climbing Legs for Robonaut 2 Headed to International Space Station - NASA News - April 15, 2014

 

• Ultra-fast, the robotic arm can catch objects on the fly - News Mediacom - 12.05.14

 

• Techniques from natural-language processing enable computers to efficiently search video for actions - MIT News - May 14, 2014

 

• Elon Musk says he invested in DeepMind over 'Terminator' fears - The Guardian - 18 June 2014

 

• Three-dimensionally printed biological machines powered by skeletal muscle - Proceedings of The National Academy of Science of USA - June 30, 2014

 

• Data smashing: uncovering lurking order in data - Journal of the Royal Society - July 24, 2014

 

• Hector is the best rescuer: Rescue robots from TU Darmstadt win RoboCup world championship in Brazil - TU-Darmstadt - 2014/07/31

 

• Elon Musk warns us that human-level AI is ‘potentially more dangerous than nukes’ - Extremetech - August 4, 2014

 

• Bound for robotic glory: New algorithm enables MIT cheetah robot to run and jump, untethered, across grass - MIT News - September 15, 2014

 

• Lightweight, Soft Exosuit Aims to Prevent Musculoskeletal Injury in Warfighters - DARPA - September 16, 2014

 

• Flying robots will go where humans can't - Science Daily - September 17, 2014

 

• Underwater robot for port security - MIT News - September 26, 2014

 

• Football-size robot can skim discreetly along a ship's hull to seek hollow compartments concealing contraband - Science Daily - September 26, 2014

 

• Designing intelligence: From Afghanistan to the home front, student Jillian Wisniewski makes systems for better intelligence - MIT News - October 8, 2014

 

• Snakes and snake-like robots show how sidewinders conquer sandy slopes - Science Daily - October 9, 2014

 

• Robots recognizes humans in disaster environments - Science Daily - October 20, 2014

 

• Game technology can make emergency robots easier to control - Science Daily - October 30, 2014

 

• Intel contest prize goes to wearable camera that can fly - phys.org - November 06, 2014

 

• Next for DARPA: 'Autocomplete' for programmers - phys.org - November 06, 2014

 

• Projecting a robot’s intentions: A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots’ minds - MITNews - October 29, 2014

 

• An 'eel-lectrifying' future for autonomous underwater robots - Science Daily - November 26, 2014

 

• Undersea robot explores life below Arctic ice - Nature News - 16 December 2014

 

• First steps for Hector the robot stick insect: Scientists at Bielefeld University apply technology inspired by examples in nature - University of Bielefeld - 16. December 2014

 

• Droids of the future: Inside Lockheed Martin’s robot lab - Science Daily - May 15, 2015

 

• Cyborg beetle research allows free-flight study of insects - Science Daily - March 16, 2015

 

• Developing a robotic therapist for children - Sinc - April 20 2015

 

• Onion artificial muscles - AIP Scitation - 05 May 2015

 

• Controlling a Robotic Arm with a Patient's Intentions - California Institute of Technology - 05/21/2015

 

• Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence - Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines - Nature News - 27 May 2015

 

• MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump: Robot sees, clears hurdles while bounding at 5 mph - MIT News - May 29, 2015

 

• NASA Awards $100,000 to Winning Team of Robot Challenge - NASA News - June 13, 2015

 

• Nanotechnology research leads to super-elastic conducting fibers for artificial muscles, sensors - Science Daily - July 23, 2015

 

• Evolution of Self-Organized Task Specialization in Robot Swarms - Plos Computational Biology - August 6, 2015

 

• A bipedal robot with human reflexes: New human-machine interface keeps robot balanced, with human reflexes - MIT News - August 10, 2015

 

• Gecko Grippers Moving On Up - NASA News - August 12, 2015

 

• Automated adaptive inference of phenomenological dynamical models - Nature News - 21 August 2015

 

• What human emotions do we really want of artificial intelligence? - phys.org - August 28, 2015

 

• 'Hedgehog' Robots Hop, Tumble in Microgravity - NASA News - September 3, 2015

 

• A skin-inspired organic digital mechanoreceptor - sciencemag - 16 October 2015

 

• Dive of the RoboBee  Harvard Microrobotics Lab develops first insect-size robot capable of flying and swimming - Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) - October 21, 2015

 

• “Spring-mass” technology heralds the future of walking robots - Oregon State University - 10/27/2015

 

• Robotic Eyes to Assist Satellite Repairs in Orbit - NASA News - Nov. 3, 2015

 

• Measuring empathy for human and robot hand pain using electroencephalography - Nature News - 03 November 2015

 

• NASA Awards Two Robots to University Groups for R&D Upgrades - NASA News - Nov. 17, 2015

 

• Row-Bot: An Energetically Autonomous Artificial Water Boatman - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - September 30, 2015

 

• NASA gives MIT a humanoid robot to develop software for future space missions - MIT News - November 17, 2015

 

• Robot to help passengers find their way at airport - phys.org - November 26, 2015

 

• Robot adds new twist to NIST antenna measurements and calibrations - phys.org - November 30, 2015

 

• Japan shows off disaster-response robots at android fair - phys.org - December 2, 2015

 

• These Are the Robots You’re Looking For - NASA News - Dec. 2, 2015

 

• All-terrain robot for nuclear decommissioning - phys.org - December 2, 2015

 

 

Aeronautics & aerospace engineering:

 

• Disc-shaped spyplane could hunt for terrorists - NewScientist - 04 February 2002

 

• Nikola Tesla's Curious Contrivance - Air & Space magazine - September, 2006

 

• HyperMach unveils SonicStar supersonic business jet concept - gizmag -June 20, 2011

 

• A mighty wind - MITNews - April 2, 2013

 

• Ionic thrusters generate efficient propulsion in air - ScienceDaily - April 3, 2013

 

• Ionic Wind Could Power Jet Engines - Discovery news - Apr 8, 2013

 

• Seeking Reality in the Future of Aeronautical Simulation - NASA News - June 11, 2014

 

• Siemens, EADS and Diamond Aircraft sign MoU on Electric Propulsion System - SIEMENS - 2013-Jun-17

 

• Rolls-Royce works with EADS on advanced hybrid distributed propulsion concept for future airliners - Rolls-Royce - 18 June 2013

 

• eConcept: EADS's Hybrid-Electric Airliner - Jun 25, 2013

 

• Elon Musk Just May Have to Develop an Electric Supersonic Jet - Bloomberg - Aug 8, 2013

 

• Elon Musk's next big project could be supersonic jet - Telegraph.co.uk - 10 Aug 2013

 

• EADS, Siemens Plot Way To Hybrid-Electric Propulsion - Aviation Week - Oct 14, 2013

 

• Sweeping Air Devices For Greener Planes - California Institute of Technology - 10/20/2014

 

• Skunk Works Reveals SR-71 Successor: Plan Integrated propulsion breakthrough key to Skunk Works' hypersonic SR-72 concept - Aviation Week - Nov 4, 2013

 

• Better combustion through plasma - Science Daily - November 26, 2013

 

• Change in geometry improves aerodynamics - phys.org -Dec 23, 2013

 

• NASA's Warp-Drive Solution for Faster-Than-Light Space Travel - dailygalaxy - January 02, 2014

 

• VTOL X-Plane Program Takes Off: DARPA tasks four companies with designing new aircraft to revolutionize vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight capabilities - Darpa - March 18, 2014

 

• Swiss unveil new solar plane for global flight - Dailymail -9 April 2014

 

• Solar-powered Impulse 2 makes maiden flight: Eco-friendly aeroplane set to fly around the world next year - Dailymail - 2 June 2014

 

• Aircraft safety: New imaging technique could detect acoustically 'invisible' cracks - Science Daily - October 6, 2014

 

• New feather findings get scientists in a flap - Science Daily - October 21, 2014

 

• NASA tests revolutionary shape changing aircraft flap for the first time - phys.org - Nov 09, 2014

 

• Successful Flight Test of Shape Changing Wing Surface - NASA News - Nov. 18, 2014

 

• Powering space craft of the future - Science Daily - December 8, 2014

 

• The European Space Agency’s LISA spacecraft ‘smiles’ in preparation for launch - spaceflightinsider - January 9th, 2015

 

• Solar plane set for landmark round the world flight - phys.org - Jan 20, 2015

 

• Helicopter could be 'scout' for Mars rovers - Science Daily - January 26, 2015

 

• Aircraft with a parallel hybrid engine tested in UK - phys.org - January 27, 2015

 

• New imaging technology to design, build greener, safer aircraft - Science Daily -January 28, 2015

 

• Novel technology could combat flight pollution - Science Daily - February 2, 2015

 

• Shape-changing Flap Project Meets First Milestone - NASA News - March 11, 2015

 

• Insect wings might serve gyroscopic function, new research suggests - Science Daily - March 18, 2015

 

• Airships: The future of aviation? - Science Daily - March 23, 2015

 

• Ten-Engine Electric Plane Completes Successful Flight Test - NASA News - April 30, 2015

 

• Ten-engine electric plane completes successful flight test - Science Daily - May 5, 2015

 

• Performance degradation mechanism of a helicon plasma thruster: A part of the performance degradation mechanism of the advanced, electrodeless, helicon plasma thruster with a magnetic nozzle, has been revealed - Science Daily - May 13, 2015

 

• A new propulsion system for airships - Dicyt - June 4, 2015

 

• Why Warp Drives Aren't Just Science Fiction - Tech News Daily - June 25, 2013

 

• Could This Become the First Mars Airplane? - NASA News - June 30, 2015

 

• Record-breaking solar flight reaches Hawaii after 5 nights and days airborne without fuel: Unlimited endurance is now proven thanks to clean technology - Science Daily - July 3, 2015

 

• NASA Funds Five Teams to Study Inventive Ideas for Aviation - NASA News - July 7, 2015

 

• Hastening the dawn of hybrid rocket engines: Hybrid rocket fuel research by mechanical engineers could hasten the day when a simpler, safer hybrid engine propels space missions - Science Daily - July 8, 2015

 

• Electric Propulsion Paired with Digital Control May Open New Horizons for Flight - NASA News - July 20, 2015

 

• Students Electrify NASA with Future Airplane Designs - NASA News - July 29, 2015

 

• Electric aircraft—the future of aviation or wishful thinking? - phys.org - August 25, 2015

 

• New Green Propellants Complete Milestones - NASA News - Sept. 14, 2015

 

• All-electric propulsion satellite by Boeing now fully operational - phys.org - September 15, 2015

 

• New Wing Shape Tested in Wind Tunnel - NASA News - Sept. 21, 2015

 

• Measuring X-rays created by lightning strikes on an aircraft in-flight - Science Daily - September 30, 2015

 

• Wall-less Hall thruster may power future deep space missions Scientists have experimentally optimized the operation of the first wall-less Hall thruster prototype, a novel electric rocket engine design suitable for long-duration, deep space missions - Science Daily - October 27, 2015

 

• NASA Armstrong Hosts Convergent Aeronautics Solutions Showcase - NASA News - Nov. 4, 2015

 

• Airlander 10: World's 'largest' aircraft readies for takeoff - CNN - March 24, 2016

 

 

Levitation phenomena:

 

• Aussie Scientists Have New "Pull" as Tractor Beam Goes the Distance - Dailytech - September 9, 2010

 

• Scientists develop acoustic levitation, could enable the eventual levitation of humans - extremetech - July 16, 2013

 

• Sound wave 3Dvolution: Japanese scientists move objects using acoustic levitation - RT - January 03, 2014

 

• Magnetic levitation shows promise for manufacturing - Science News - August 27, 2014

 

• Diamagnetic levitation of pyrolitic graphite over a single magnet achieved - phys.org - August 28, 2014

 

• A long-range polarization-controlled optical tractor beam - Nature News (photonics) - 19 October 2014

 

• Supersonic laser-propelled rockets - phys.org - Oct 29, 2014

 

• Supersonic laser-propelled rockets: Hybrid approach may help power rockets, launch satellites, push future aircraft past Mach 10 - Science Daily -October 29, 2014

 

• Transmission mechanism using magnetic levitating gear - Science Daily - November 30, 2014

 

• Levitation recreates nature's dumbbells - Science Daily - January 7, 2015

 

• Particle manipulation by a non-resonant acoustic levitator - AIP Scitation - 05 gener 2015

 

• Sorting cells through levitation - Sciencemag - 29 June 2015

 

• Multi-dimensional single-spin nano-optomechanics with a levitated nanodiamond - Nature News (photonics) - 07 September 2015

 

• From science fiction to reality – sonic tractor beam invented - University of Bristol - 27 October 2015

 

• Acoustic levitation used to manipulate objects in midair - Physics Today (AIP Scitation) - 28 Octobre 2015

 

• Sound waves levitate cells to detect stiffness changes that could signal disease - phys.org - November 4, 2015

 

 

Other news on technology:

 

• European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser tunnel construction completed - phys.org - Jun 18, 2012

 

• Microwave absorption properties of carbon nanocoils coated with highly controlled magnetic materials by atomic layer deposition - PubMed - 2012 Dec 21

 

• Hairy metal laser show produces bright X-Rays - arstechnica.com - Nov 19 2013

 

• Intense two-color double X-ray laser pulses: a powerful tool to study ultrafast processes - RIKEN News & Media - December 4, 2013

 

• Obtained the generation and measurement of an isolated X-ray attosecond pulse - Dicyt (Ibero-American for diffusion of Science & Technology) - May 27, 2014

 

• Largest laser gives diamond a record-setting squeeze - Newscientist - 16 July 2014

 

• Sensitive room-temperature terahertz detection via the photothermoelectric effect in graphene - Nature News (nanotechnology) - 07 September, 2014

 

• Engineers find a way to win in laser performance by losing - Science Daily - October 16, 2014

 

• Subwavelength optical fibers to diffuse light - Science Daily - October 16, 2014

 

• Scientists build a better eye on our world - phys.org - Nov 11, 2014

 

• Creation of Orbital Angular Momentum States with Chiral Polaritonic Lenses - APS Physics - 12 November 2014

 

• Spiral laser beam creates quantum whirlpool - Science Daily - November 17, 2014

 

• A “Star Wars” laser bullet – this is what it really looks like - Institute of physical chemistry (Polish accademy of sciences) - 22 October 2014

 

• Could tiny jellyfish propulsion drive design of new underwater craft? - Science Daily - September 1, 2015

 

• Unimolecular Submersible Nanomachines. Synthesis, Actuation, and Monitoring - ACS Publications - November 5, 2015

 

• Team creates a curved waveguide able to significantly bend X-ray beams - phys.org - November 11, 2015

 

• UW team refrigerates liquids with a laser for the first time - University of Washington - November 16, 2015

 

 

Weather phenomena:

 

• Schumann resonance parameters calculated with a partially uniform knee model on Earth, Venus, Mars, and Titan - AGU Publications (Radio Science) - 9 October 2004

 

• Ancient lunar dynamo may explain magnetized moon rocks - Science Daily - November 9, 2011

 

• Canneto di Caronia journal: Electricity goes wild did the devil make it do it - NYTimes - 24 jun. 2004

 

• Lightning-made Waves in Earth's Atmosphere Leak Into Space - NASA - Nov. 28, 2011

 

• World's largest Tesla coils being built to unlock the secrets of natural lightning - gizmag - November 30, 2011.

 

• Scientists Produce Densest Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Using HAARP - sciencedaily - Feb. 25, 2013

 

• Russian researchers find more evidence to support notion that lightning is caused by cosmic rays - phys.org - May 06, 2013

 

• Red sprites snapped dancing above a Nebraska storm - newscientist - 27 August, 2013

 

• Danish experiment suggests unexpected magic by cosmic rays in cloud formatio - Technical University of Denmark - Sept. 4, 2013

 

• What direction does Earth's center spin? New insights solve 300-year-old problem - Science Daily - September 16, 2013

 

• CU-Boulder researchers use climate model to better understand electricity in the air - University of Colorado Boulder - October 3, 2013

 

• NASA Searches for Climate Change Clues in the Gateway to the Stratosphere - NASA news - January 17, 2014

 

• High-Voltage Transmission Lines to Act as Antenna in First-of-its-Kind NASA Space-Weather Project - NASA news - April 23, 2014

 

• Sprites form at plasma irregularities in the lower ionosphere - Science Daily - May 7, 2014

 

• Lightning expected to increase by 50 percent with global warming - Science Daily - November 13, 2014

 

• Turbulence in molten core helps amplify Earth's magnetic field - Science Daily - November 18, 2014

 

• Sun's rotating 'magnet' pulls lightning towards UK - Science Daily - November 19, 2014

 

• Plasma shield: Researchers find that Earth’s “plasmaspheric hiss” protects against a harmful radiation belt - MIT news - November 26, 2014

 

• NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Ionospheric Connection Explorer - NASA news - November 20, 2014

 

• Invisible shield found thousands of miles above Earth blocks 'killer electrons' - Science Daily - November 26, 2014

 

• Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space - NASA news - Nov 27, 2014

 

• Meteorology meets metrology: Climate research high up in the clouds - Science Daily - December 2, 2014

 

• Origin of long-standing space mystery revealed: Origin of the 'theta aurora' - Science Daily - December 2, 2014

 

• Deep Space Climate Observatory to provide 'EPIC' views of Earth - Science Daily -January 7, 2015

 

• NASA spacecraft prepares for March 12 launch to study earth's dynamic magnetic space environment - phys.org - Feb 26, 2015

 

• Study of atmospheric 'froth' may help GPS communications - Science Daily - Feb 26, 2015

 

• NASA Sets Coverage for Launch of Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission - NASA news - February 27, 2015

 

• The weakest magnetic field in the solar system - Science Daily - May 12, 2015

 

• New tool could predict large solar storms more than 24 hours in advance - Science Daily - June 9, 2015

 

• Laser beams make lightning tunnels: Scientists discover a way to control the unpredictable path of an electric spark - Sciencemag - 19 June 2015

 

• NASA's TES Satellite Instrument Gives New Insight into Water Cycle - NASA news - September 3, 2015

 

• Swimming Sea-Monkeys Reveal How Zooplankton May Help Drive Ocean Circulation - California Institute of Technology - 09/30/2014

 

• Caltech Rocket Experiment Finds Surprising Cosmic Light - California Institute of Technology - 11/06/2014

 

• Atmospheric waves above New Zealand - Physics Today (AIP Scitation) - 12 novembre 2015

 

 

Astrophysics & astronomy (space research):

 

• IU mathematician offers unified theory of dark matter, dark energy, altering Einstein field equations - Indiana University (News Room) - September 6, 2012

 

• Dark energy is real, say astronomers - Royal Astronomical Society - 12 September, 2012

 

• Astronomers detect strange radio signals from deep space - yahoo news - 5 Jul, 2013

 

• Cosmic turbulences result in star and black hole formation - phys.org - Aug 15, 2013

 

• Kepler Mission Confirms Existence of 41 New Planets - dailygalaxy - January 11, 2014

 

• Detection of Waves in Space Buttresses Landmark Theory of Big Bang - New York Times - March 17, 2014

 

• Gravity Waves from Big Bang Detected - scientificamerican - Mar 17, 2014

 

• Gravitational wave discovery faces scrutiny: Cosmologist casts doubts on BICEP2's analysis of cosmic microwaves, but the team stands by its conclusions - Nature News - 16 May 2014

 

• No evidence for or against gravitational waves - Nature News - 29 May 2014

 

• NASA's Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone' - NASA News - April 17, 2014

 

• Saturn's moon Titan has a very salty ocean - NASA News - July 2, 2014

 

• UT Research Uncovers Forces that Hold Gravity-Defying Near-Earth Asteroid Together - University of Tennessee Knoxville -August 13, 2014

 

• Quantum bounce could make black holes explode: If space-time is granular, it could reverse gravitational collapse and turn it into expansion - Nature News - 17 July 2014

 

• Strong tidal heating in an ultralow-viscosity zone at the core–mantle boundary of the Moon - Nature News (Geoscience) - 27 July 2014

 

• UT Research Uncovers Forces that Hold Gravity-Defying Near-Earth Asteroid Together - University of Tennessee Knoxville -August 13, 2014

 

• Researcher advances a new model for a cosmological enigma—dark matter - phys.org - September 4, 2014

 

• KIC 9632895 - The 10th Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet - Cornell University Library - 4 Sep 2014

 

• Cosmologists probe beyond the Big Bang - phys.org - September 5, 2014

 

• An anomaly in satellites' flybys confounds scientists - ScienceDaily - September 19, 2014

 

• On the shoulders of giants: Properties of the stellar halo and the milky way mass distribution - Iopscience - 2014 September 24

 

• NASA's Swift Mission Observes Mega Flares from a Mini Star - NASA News - September 30, 2014

 

• Researchers detect brightest pulsar ever recorded: The pulsar, about as large as the city of Boston, is 10 million times brighter than the sun - MIT news - October 8, 2014

 

• Inexplicable signal from unseen universe provides tantalizing clue about one of astronomy's greatest secrets -- dark matter - ScienceDaily - October 16, 2014

 

• Cassini Caught in Hyperion's Particle Beam - NASA News - October 16, 2014

 

• Indications of a Late-Time Interaction in the Dark Sector - APS Physics - 30 October 2014

 

• European satellite could discover thousands of planets in Earth's galaxy - phys.org - Nov 06, 2014

 

• Dark matter may be massive: Theorists suggest the Standard Model may account for the stuff - phys.org - Nov 04, 2014

 

• NASA Rocket Experiment: Universe is Brighter Than We Thought - NASA News - November 6, 2014

 

• Water Trapping on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets Requires Special Conditions - Cornell University Library - 3 Nov 2014

 

• Astronomers discover first 'lightning' from a black hole - Science Daily - November 11, 2014

 

• Astronomers discover first 'lightning' from a black hole - Science Daily - November 11, 2014

 

• Space: The final frontier in silicon chemistry - Science Daily - November 11, 2014

 

• Philae, the ‘Happy Lander’: Instruments delivering images and data from comet's surface - Science Daily - November 13, 2014

 

• Mission to discover hundreds of black holes could unlock secrets of the Universe - ScienceDaily - November 14, 2014

 

• Three touchdowns for Rosetta’s lander - ScienceDaily - November 14, 2014

 

• Spooky alignment of quasars across billions of light-years - ScienceDaily - November 19, 2014

 

• How to estimate the magnetic field of an exoplanet - ScienceDaily - November 20, 2014

 

• Revolutionary image reveals planetary genesis: A new image from ALMA reveals extraordinarily fine detail that has never been seen before in the planet-forming disc around a young star - Iberoamerican Agency for Difusion of Science And Technology (DICYT) - November 07 of 2014

 

• European probe shoots down dark-matter claims  - Nature News - 02 December 2014

 

• New revelations on dark matter and relic neutrinos - ScienceDaily - December 4, 2014

 

• Researchers detect possible signal from dark matter - ScienceDaily - December 11, 2014

 

• Superluminal Spot Pair Events in Astronomical Settings: Sweeping Beams - Cornell University Library (Astrophysics)- 24 Dec 2014

 

• Detecting extraterrestrial life through motion - ScienceDaily - December 29, 2014

 

• The European Space Agency’s LISA spacecraft ‘smiles’ in preparation for launch - spaceflightinsider - January 9th, 2015

 

• Decoding the gravitational evolution of dark matter halos - ScienceDaily - January 13, 2015

 

• Three 'super-Earth' exoplanets seen orbiting nearby star: Revived Kepler telescope spies system with one planet in habitable zone - Nature News - 16 January 2015

 

• Bubbles from the galactic center: A key to understanding dark matter and our galaxy's past? - ScienceDaily - January 27, 2015

 

• On the Existence of Low-Mass Dark Matter and its Direct Detection - Nature (Scientific Reports) - 27 January 2015

 

• Could a new proposed particle help to detect dark matter? - phys.org - Jan 29, 2015

 

• Gravitational Waves from Early Universe Remain Elusive - California Institute of Technology - 01/30/2015

 

• The Sun’s activity in the 18th century was similar to that now - Sinc - February 02 2015

 

• Dark matter guides growth of supermassive black holes - phys.org - Feb 18, 2015

 

• Physicists suggest theory versus observational differences in the sun could be due to dark matter - phys.org - Feb 27, 2015

 

• Einstein put to the test: Satellite mission on dark energy and theory of gravitation - ScienceDaily - March 5, 2015

 

• Why NASA’s top scientist is sure that we’ll find signs of alien life in the next decade - Washington Post - April 8

 

• Maybe dark matter is not made up of heavy particles after all - ScienceDaily - May 15, 2015

 

• Blazing hot exoplanet has 'sunscreen' layer: Protective stratosphere likely contains titanium oxide -  Sciencemag - 12 June 2015

 

• Measuring the Mass of a Mars-size Exoplanet - NASA News - June 17, 2015

 

• A ~50,000 solar mass black hole in the nucleus of RGG 118 - Cornell University Library - 24 Jun 2015

 

• Hastening the dawn of hybrid rocket engines - ScienceDaily - July 8, 2015

 

• Distant Black Hole Wave Twists Like Giant Whip - California Institute of Technology - 07/09/2015

 

• Hunting for dark matter with ultra-stable fibre as frequency delay system - Nature News - 10 July 2015

 

• NASA to Release New Pluto Images, Science Findings at July 17 NASA TV Briefing - NASA News - July 16, 2015

 

• NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth - NASA News - July 24, 2015

 

• NASA’s New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto - NASA News - July 24, 2015

 

• NASA Selects Proposals to Study Neutron Stars, Black Holes and More - NASA News - July 30, 2015

 

• Cosmic convergence: Neutrinos from beyond our galaxy could be close kin to other mysterious visitors from space - Sciencemag - 30 July 2015

 

• Looking Forward to 2020 . . . on Mars - California Institute of Technology - 07/31/2014

 

• Caltech Astronomers Unveil a Distant Protogalaxy Connected to the Cosmic Web - California Institute of Technology - 08/05/2015

 

• Catching cosmic rays where they live - Sciencemag - 6 August 2015

 

• Astronomers discover 'young Jupiter' exoplanet - Standford News - August 13, 2015

 

• Charting the Slow Death of the Universe - International Astronomical Union - Aug 15, 2015

 

• Tiny fountain of atoms sparks big insights into dark energy - Sciencemag - 20 August 2015

 

• Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus - phys.org - September 15, 2015

 

• Relativistic boost as the cause of periodicity in a massive black-hole binary candidate - Nature News - 16 September 2015

 

• Dark matter hiding in stars may cause observable oscillations - phys.org - September 18, 2015

 

• The Newest Search for Gravitational Waves has Begun - LIGO (operated by Caltech and MIT) - September 18, 2015

 

• Experiment confirms fundamental symmetry in nature - phys.org - September 21, 2015

 

• Mysterious Neutrinos Take the Stage at SLAC - SLAC (National Accelerator Laboratory) - September 23, 2015

 

• NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars - NASA News - September 28, 2015

 

• NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars - NASA News - October 8, 2015

 

• Getting To Know Super-Earths - California Institute of Technology - 10/15/2014

 

• Whatever the strangest star in the galaxy is, it's sure to be amazing - phys.org - October 19, 2015

 

• Most Earth-Like Worlds Have Yet to Be Born, According to Theoretical Study - NASA News - Oct. 20, 2015

 

• Flows of X-ray gas reveal the disruption of a star by a massive black hole - Nature News - 21 October 2015

 

• Seven Key Facts About Cassini's Oct. 28 'Plume Dive' - NASA News - October 26, 2015

 

• Black Hole Has Major Flare - NASA News - October 27, 2015

 

• Gamma-ray signal less likely to be evidence of dark matter - Physics Today (AIP Scitation) - 30 octubre 2015

 

• Major international collaboration has seen its first neutrinos – so-called ‘ghost particles’ – in the experiment’s newly built detector - University of Cambridge - 02 Nov 2015

 

• Astronomers have discovered some of the oldest stars in the galaxy, whose chemical composition and movements could tell us what the Universe was like soon after the Big Bang - University of Cambridge - 02 Nov 2015

 

• New exoplanet in our neighborhood  Though likely uninhabitable, planet is rocky, Earth-sized, and near enough for study of its atmosphere - MIT news - November 11, 2015

 

• First gamma-ray pulsar found outside Milky Way is the most energetic yet - Physics Today (AIP Scitation) - 13 novembre 2015

 

• 'Chemical Laptop' Could Search for Signs of Life Outside Earth - NASA News - November 16, 2015

 

• Scientists caught a new planet forming for the first time ever - Washington Post - November 18, 2015

 

• Dark matter dominates in nearby dwarf galaxy - California Institute of Technology - 11/18/2015

 

• Dark matter might cause fundamental constants to change over time - phys.org - November 19, 2015

 

• Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter - NASA News - November 23, 2015

 

• Strange Star Likely Swarmed by Comets - NASA News - November 24, 2015

 

• In a galaxy not so far away, a star hosts a potentially habitable planet: UNSW astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system, orbiting a star just 14 light years away - University of New South Wales - 17 Dec 2015

 

• New theory of secondary inflation expands options for avoiding an excess of dark matter - phys.org - January 14, 2016

 

 

Physics & quantuum physics:

 

• Professor predicts human time travel this century - phys.org - Apr 04, 2006

 

• Casimir effect goes negative - nanotechweb.org - Jan 12, 2009

 

• LHC results put supersymmetry theory 'on the spot' - BBC Science & Enviorment - 27 August 2011

 

• Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2011 - Physicsworld.com (the member magazine of the Institute of Physics ) - Dec 16, 2011

 

• Physicists propose test for loop quantum gravity - phys.org - Jan 03, 2012

 

• CERN finds dramatic particle reshaping that could push back the frontiers of physics - Daily Mail - 13 November 2012

 

• Truant particles turn the screw on supersymmetry - phys.org - 20 November 2012

 

• As Supersymmetry Fails Tests, Physicists Seek New Ideas - quantamagazine - 20 November 2012

 

• 10-year study reveals incredible level of accuracy to estimate intrinsic magnetic properties of two subatomic particles - phys.org - January 11, 2013

 

• Uncertainty revisited: Novel tradeoffs in quantum measurement - phys.org - May 28, 2013

 

• Physics team entangles photons that never coexisted in time - phys.org - May 28, 2013

 

• More precision from less predictability: A new quantum trade-off - phys.org -May 29, 2013

 

• CERN latest data shows no sign of supersymmetry – yet - phys.org - Jul 25, 2013

 

• One year on from the Higgs boson find, has physics hit the buffers? - phys.org - 6 August 2013

 

• Extending the Range of the Inductionless Magnetorotational Instability - APS Physics - 7 August 2013

 

• Computer simulations reveal universal increase in electrical conductivity - phys.org - Aug 11, 2013

 

• Death by Higgs rids cosmos of space brain threat - newscientist - 04 September 2013

 

• Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism - Niels Bohr Institute - 09 October 2013

 

• A Grand Unified Theory of Exotic Superconductivity? - Brookheaven National Laboratory - October 17, 2013

 

• Deterministically Encoding Quantum Information Using 100-Photon Schrödinger Cat States - sciencemag - 1 November 2013

 

• Inelastic X-ray scattering in YBa2Cu3O6.6 reveals giant phonon anomalies and elastic central peak due to charge-density-wave formation - nature - 24 November 2013

 

• Decay used to construct quantum information - Niels Bohr Institute
   - 24 November 2013

 

• Quantum state world record smashed - Oxford University - 15 Nov 13

 

• New Effect Couples Electricity and Magnetism in Materials - Tesnische Universität Wein - 2013-11-27

 

• ‘Spooky action’ builds a wormhole between ‘entangled’ particles - University of Washington - December 3, 2013

 

• Creation of entanglement simultaneously gives rise to a wormhole - phys.org - Dec 05, 2013

 

• Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram - Nature - 10 December 2013

 

• Catching the big wave: 'Universal ripple' could hold the secret to high-temperature superconductivity - science.ubc - December 19, 2013

 

• A new wrinkle in the control of waves (Flexible materials could provide ways to manipulate sound and light) - MIT news - January 24, 2014.

 

• Acoustic Cloaking Device Hides Objects from Sound - Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University (News Release) - March 11, 2014

 

• Scientists open a new window into quantum physics with superconductivity in LEDs - University of Toronto - March 18, 2014

 

• Temporal violation of the second law of thermodynamics in Nature Nanotechnology - Institute of Photonic Sciences (News) - 2014/03/31

 

• Researchers propose a new way to detect the elusive graviton - Arizona State University (News) - March 03, 2014

 

• Current-driven ion-acoustic and potential-relaxation instabilities excited in plasma plume during electron beam welding - scitation.aip - 08 abril 2014

 

• Argon–oxygen dc magnetron discharge plasma probed with ion acoustic waves - scitation.aip - 10 abril 2014

 

• Liquid spacetime: A very slippery superfluid, that's what spacetime could be like - phys.org - Apr 23, 2014

 

• Proving uncertainty: First rigorous formulation supporting Heisenberg's famous 1927 principle - phys.org - Apr 23, 2014

 

• Neutron death mystery has physicists stymied: Conflicting measurements of particle's lifetime could point to exotic new physics - Nature News- 13 May 2014

 

• A photon–photon collider in a vacuum hohlraum - Nature News - 18 May 2014

 

• Exotic Particle Confirmed - fz-juelich - 23 May 2014

 

• Combining lasers could shrink particle accelerators from kilometers to meters - phys.org - May 27, 2014

 

• A path toward more powerful tabletop accelerators - phys.org - May 28, 2014

 

• Quantum network would be most precise clock yet: Physicists propose harnessing 'quantum entanglement' to surpass accuracy of any single atomic clock - Nature News - 15 June 2014

 

• Higgs Boson Seems To Prove That The Universe Doesn't Exist - Forbes - 6/24/2014

 

• Generation of acoustic self-bending and bottle beams by phase engineering - Nature News - 03 July 2014

 

• The Theory of Supersymmetry, Visualized by CERN's Artist-in-Residence - Motherboard - July 9, 2014

 

• LHC scientists to search for 'fifth force of Nature' - BBC Science & Enviorment - 10 July 2014

 

• Photo-enhanced antinodal conductivity in the pseudogap state of high-Tc cuprates - Nature News - 11 July 2014

 

• Kilohertz Rotation of Nanorods Propelled by Ultrasound, Traced by Microvortex Advection of Nanoparticles - ACSPublications - July 14, 2014

 

• Wave of the future: After two decades and more than half a billion dollars, LIGO, the world's largest gravitational-wave observatory, is on the verge of a detection. Maybe - Nature News - 16 July 2014

 

• Boosting the Force of Empty Space - Vienna University of Technology - 2014-07-22

 

• Recent results in the search for supersymmetry - Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN's LHC - 2014-07-24

 

• Electrons moving in a magnetic field exhibit strange quantum behavior - phys.org - Aug 08, 2014

 

• Finding a piece of the proton-spin puzzle: Particle physicists measure the spin contribution of the proton’s antiquark - MIT news - August 13, 2014

 

• JILA Team Finds First Direct Evidence of 'Spin Symmetry' In Atoms - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - August 21, 2014

 

• First direct evidence of 'spin symmetry' in atoms - Science Daily - August 21, 2014

 

• Shapes and vorticities of superfluid helium nanodroplets - Sciencemag - 22 August 2014

 

• Do we live in a 2-D hologram? New Fermilab experiment will test the nature of the universe - Fermilab - August 26, 2014

 

• Experiments reveal a neutron halo around neutron-rich magnesium nuclei - phys.org - August 29, 2014

 

• Is the universe a stable quantum system? - phys.org - September 10, 2014

 

• The sound of an atom has been captured - phys.org - September 11, 2014

 

• Fluid mechanics suggests alternative to quantum orthodoxy - phys.org - September 12, 2014

 

• Photo-enhanced antinodal conductivity in the pseudogap state of high-Tc cuprates - Nature News - 11 July 2014

 

• Structured light make circular holes distinguish between left and right - phys.org - September 15, 2014

 

• Physical constant is constant even in strong gravitational fields - phys.org - September 19, 2014

 

• Special relativity aces time trial: 'Time dilation' predicted by Einstein confirmed by lithium ion experiment - Nature News - 19 September 2014

 

• Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory - Nature News (Photonics) - 21 September 2014

 

• Are weak values quantum? Don't bet on it - phys.org - September 24, 2014

 

• Experiment makes Schrodinger's cat choose—things can be real, or certain, but not both - phys.org - September 26, 2014

 

• Elusive particle that is its own antiparticle observed - Science Daily - October 2, 2014

 

• Discovery of new subatomic particle, type of meson, to 'transform' understanding of fundamental force of nature - Science Daily - October 9, 2014

 

• Discovery of new subatomic particle sheds light on fundamental force of nature - Warwick.ac.uk - 9 October 2014

 

• Multiferroic material displays a novel spin structure that allows light to travel in only one direction - phys.org - Oct 17, 2014

 

• New experiment provides route to macroscopic high-mass superpositions - phys.org - Oct 23, 2014

 

• Moving in the quantum world - Science Daily - October 23, 2014

 

• New experiment provides route to macroscopic high-mass superpositions - Science Daily - October 23, 2014

 

• When parallel worlds collide, quantum mechanics is born - phys.org - Oct 24, 2014

 

• Light-matter interaction can turn opaque materials transparent - phys.org - Oct 28, 2014

 

• Syracuse physicists closer to understanding balance of matter, antimatter in universe - phys.org - Oct 28, 2014

 

• Researchers control interplay of light and matter at the level of individual photons emitted by rubidium - phys.org - Oct 28, 2014

 

• Study of Exotic Ions in Superfluid Helium and the Possible Fission of the Electron Wave Function - Springer Link - 28 Oct 2014

 

• Many Interacting Worlds theory: Scientists propose existence and interaction of parallel worlds - phys.org - Oct 30, 2014

 

• String field theory could be the foundation of quantum mechanics - phys.org - Nov 03, 2014

 

• Electromagnetic fluctuation forces across plasmas analogous to so-called weak nuclear interaction forces - phys.org - Nov 03, 2014

 

• String field theory could be the foundation of quantum mechanics - phys.org - Nov 03, 2014

 

• Proton spin puzzle: Research reveals gluons make a significant contribution to spin - phys.org - Nov 03, 2014

 

• Physicists hit milestone in accelerating particles with plasma - phys.org - Nov 05, 2014

 

• The Peres conjecture is false: One of the most famous problems in quantum information physics solved - phys.org - Nov 06, 2014

 

• Maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle after all - Science Daily - November 7, 2014

 

• Spiral laser beam creates quantum whirlpool - phys.org - November 17, 2014

 

• Hunting for topological dark matter with atomic clocks -  Nature News - November 17, 2014

 

• Fundamental constants are still constant: Atomic clocks prove stability of mass ratio of protons to electrons - Science Daily - November 18, 2014

 

• Gravity may have saved the universe after the Big Bang, say researchers - Science Daily - November 18, 2014

 

• Physicists discover new subatomic particles - Science Daily - November 19, 2014

 

• 'Solid' light could compute previously unsolvable problems - Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science - Sep 08, 2014

 

• Van der Waals force re-measured: Physicists verified nonlinear increase with growing molecular size - Science Daily - November 26, 2014

 

• Quantum transport in a driven disordered potential: onset of directed current and noise-induced current reversal - Springer link - 01 Dec 2014

 

• A laser-driven particle accelerator, delivering a beam of electrons with a record-breaking energy of 4.2 giga-electron-volts, could lead to compact x-ray lasers or high-energy colliders - physics.aps - December 8, 2014

 

• Exact solution to model Big Bang and quark gluon plasma - Science Daily -December 16, 2014

 

• Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physics - Nature News - 16 December, 2014

 

• Is the Higgs Boson a piece of the matter-antimatter puzzle? - Science Daily - December 16, 2014

 

• Choreography of an electron pair - Science Daily - December 19, 2014

 

• Quantum physics just got less complicated: Wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty are same thing - Science Daily - December 19, 2014

 

• How electrons split: New evidence of exotic behaviors - Science Daily - December 23, 2014

 

• New half-light half-matter quantum particles created - Science Daily - December 29, 2014

 

• Left-right supersymmetry after the Higgs boson discovery - American Physical Society - 30 December 2014

 

• Neutrinos can deliver not only full-on hits but also 'glancing blows' - Science Daily - December 30, 2014

 

• The search for supersymmetry: Come out, come out, wherever you are! - The economist - Jan 3rd 2015

 

• The Large Hadron Collider sets its sights on dark matter - Theguardian - 4 January 2015

 

• Discovery of uncertainty relations beyond the Heisenberg - phys.org - Jan 05, 2015

 

• Extending Einstein's spooky action for use in quantum networks - phys.org - January 15, 2015

 

• Self-destructive effects of magnetically-doped ferromagnetic topological insulators - phys.org - January 19, 2015

 

• Atoms can be in two places at the same time - Science Daily - January 20, 2015

 

• Revealing secrets of atomic nuclei - phys.org - January 21, 2015

 

• New analysis shows a way to self-propel subatomic particles - phys.org - January 21, 2015

 

• Scientists set quantum speed limit - Science Daily - January 22, 2015

 

• A New Venue of Spontaneous Supersymmetry Breaking in Supergravity - Cornell University Library - 22 Jan 2015

 

• Bose-Einstein condensate could be used to observe quantum mass acquisition - phys.org - January 23, 2015

 

• Popper's experiment realized again—but what does it mean? - phys.org - January 27, 2015

 

• On the Existence of Low-Mass Dark Matter and its Direct Detection - Nature (Scientific Reports) - 27 January 2015

 

• Quantum computer as detector shows space is not squeezed - Science Daily - January 28, 2015

 

• Gravitational waves discovery now officially dead: Combined data from South Pole experiment BICEP2 and Planck probe point to Galactic dust as confounding signal - Nature News - 30 January 2015

 

• Researchers describe the wavefunction of Schroedinger's cat - phys.org - February 3, 2015

 

• How does the universe creates reason, morality? - Science Daily - January 23, 2015

 

• Could classical theory be just as weird as quantum theory? - phys.org - February 23, 2015

 

• First ever photograph of light as a particle and a wave - Science Daily - March 2, 2015

 

• Physicists solve low-temperature magnetic mystery - Science Daily - March 24, 2015

 

• Ultra-sensitive sensor detects individual electrons - Sinc - April 22 2015

 

• Examining Einstein: Precise experiments using lasers and clocks in space - Science Daily - April 23, 2015

 

• Researchers theoretically demonstrate the detection of a single nuclear spin at room temperature - University of Waterloo - May 12, 2015

 

• Tricking the Uncertainty Principle: Caltech researchers have found a way to make measurements that go beyond the limits imposed by quantum physics - California Institute of Technology -  05/15/2014

 

• Theory of everything? How spacetime is built by quantum entanglement - Science Daily - May 27, 2015

 

• Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness - phys.org - May 27, 2015

 

• Physicists solve quantum tunneling mystery - Science Daily - May 27, 2015

 

• Endless oscillations, destined never to relax: A theoretical study on quantum systems - Science Daily - May 27, 2015

 

• Detecting entangled quantum states: Photons in witness detection program - Science Daily - May 27, 2015

 

• Magnetism can control heat, sound - Science Daily - May 28, 2015

 

• Entangled photons unlock new super-sensitive characterization of quantum technology - Science Daily - June 1, 2015

 

• Physicists make first observation of the pushing pressure of light - phys.org - June 2, 2015

 

• Hyper-precise atomic clocks face off to redefine time: Next-generation timekeepers can only be tested against each other - Nature News - 02 June 2015

 

• Scientists see ripples of a particle-separating wave in primordial plasma - Science Daily - June 8, 2015

 

• Physicists demonstrate new violations of local realism - phys.org - June 10, 2015

 

• Universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation - Nature News (Physics) - 15 June 2015

 

• Researchers detect how light excites electrons in metal for the first time - Science Daily - June 16, 2015

 

• When science gets ugly – the story of Philipp Lenard and Albert Einstein - phys.org - June 18, 2015

 

• The quantum spin Hall effect is a fundamental property of light - Science Daily - June 25, 2015

 

• Physicists find quantum coherence and quantum entanglement are two sides of the same coin - phys.org - June 25, 2015

 

• Quantum teleportation? Producing spin-entangled electrons - Science Daily - July 1, 2015

 

• New perturbative method of solving the gravitational N-body problem in general relativity - Science Daily - July 7, 2015

 

• Spatial Coherence and Stability in a Disordered Organic Polariton Condensate - APS Physics - 13 July 2015

 

• Significant development in the understanding of macroscopic quantum behavior: Wavelike quantum behavior of a polariton condensate demonstrated on a macroscopic scale and at room temperature - Science Daily - July 14, 2015

 

• Strange new subatomic particles discovered at atom smasher: Data from the Large Hadron Collider show that pentaquarks probably do exist after all -  Sciencemag - 14 July 2015

 

• Latest results from the LHC experiments - Science Daily - July 28, 2015

 

• Arrow of time: New understanding of causality, free choice, and why we remember the past but not the future - Science Daily - July 28, 2015

 

• Enlisting symmetry to protect quantum states from disruptions - phys.org - July 28, 2015

 

• Time-symmetric formulation of quantum theory provides new understanding of causality and free choice - phys.org - July 28, 2015

 

• Physicist unveils plan for entangling massive objects - phys.org - August 5, 2015

 

• U.S. neutrino experiment's first result tantalizes: Early data suggest experiment will succeed in ranking ghostly particle by mass - Sciencemag - 6 August 2015

 

• A Magnetic Wormhole - Nature News - 20 August 2015

 

• After a Half Century, the Exotic Pentaquark Particle is Found - California Institute of Technology - 08/21/2015

 

• A little light interaction leaves quantum physicists beaming - phys.org - August 24, 2015

 

• Researchers find a way to close both loopholes in testing entanglement with Bell's inequality - phys.org - August 31, 2015

 

• New law implies thermodynamic time runs backwards inside black holes - phys.org - September 3, 2015

 

• Most precise test of Lorentz symmetry for the photon finds that the speed of light is indeed constant - phys.org - September 15, 2015

 

• Nonchiral Enhancement of Scalar Glueball Decay in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto Model - APS Physics - 21 September 2015

 

• Probing the quantum vacuum with an artificial atom in front of a mirror - Nature News - 28 September 2015

 

• Signals from empty space: Physicists succeed in direct detection of vacuum fluctuations - Science Daily - October 2, 2015

 

• Perfectly accurate clocks turn out to be impossible - Science Daily - October 7, 2015

 

• What is quantum in quantum thermodynamics? - phys.org - October 12, 2015

 

• Loophole-free Bell test TU Delft crowns 80-years-old debate on nature of reality: Einsteins “spooky action” is real - Delft University of Technology - 21 October 2015

 

• Quantum process demonstrates superposition of ordered events - phys.org - November 4, 2015

 

• 'Crucial steps towards comprehensive theory on the forces of nature' - phys.org - November 9, 2015

 

• From Newton to Einstein—the origins of general relativity - phys.org - November 10, 2015

 

• New derivation of pi links quantum physics and pure math - phys.org - November 10, 2015

 

•  Magnetic monopoles in spin ice crystals - phys.org - November 12, 2015

 

• Explainer: What is mass? - phys.org - November 12, 2015

 

• Probing the gravitational Faraday rotation using quasar X-ray microlensing - Nature News - November 17, 2015

 

• More proof of Einstein's general theory of relativity: A high-performance computing researcher has predicted a physical effect that would help physicists and astronomers provide fresh evidence of the correctness of Einstein's general theory of relativity - Science Daily - November 17, 2015

 

• Quantum spin could create unstoppable, one-dimensional electron waves - phys.org - November 18, 2015

 

• Q&A: SLAC Theorist Lance Dixon Explains Quantum Gravity - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - November 18, 2015

 

• Quantum entanglement, loophole free - Physics Today (AIP Scitation)- 19 novembre 2015

 

• SLAC theorist explains quantum gravity - phys.org - 19 novembre 2015

 

• Ground-breaking research could challenge underlying principles of physics - phys.org - November 20, 2015

 

• Supercomputing the strange difference between matter and antimatter - phys.org - November 20, 2015

 

• Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel - phys.org - October 21, 2015

 

• Without Einstein it would have taken decades longer to understand gravity - phys.org - November 23, 2015

 

• Speeding particles in the sights of a laser - phys.org - November 23, 2015

 

• Replicating the benefits of Deutschian closed timelike curves without breaking causality - Nature News - 24 November 2015

 

• 'Material universe' yields surprising new particle - phys.org - November 25, 2015

 

• Will we have to rewrite Einstein's theory of general relativity? - phys.org - November 25, 2015

 

• The art and beauty of general relativity - phys.org - November 26, 2015

 

• Quantum insulation: Intemperate atoms can't come to equilibrium - phys.org - November 30, 2015

 

• A way to study entanglement entropy between multi-body systems - phys.org - December 3, 2015

 

• Minutest absolute magnetic field measurement - phys.org - December 3, 2015

 

• Magnetic invisibility cloak shields magnets from magnetic fields - phys.org - December 3, 2015

 

• Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations - phys.org - December 4, 2015

 

• Q&A: SLAC Theorist Lance Dixon Explains Quantum Gravity - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - November 18, 2015

 

• Quantum superposition, entanglement, and state teleportation of a microorganism on an electromechanical oscillator - Springer Link - 11 January 2016

 

• Solving hard quantum problems—everything is connected - phys.org - January 26, 2016

 

• Why a new physics theory could rewrite the textbooks - phys.org - January 27, 2016

 

• Bringing time and space together for universal symmetry - phys.org - January 28, 2016

 

 

Quantuum computering:

 

• Modular entanglement of atomic qubits using photons and phonons - Nature News - 17 November 2014

 

• Quantum holograms as atomic scale memory keepsake - Science Daily - October 21, 2014

 

• Flying qubits make for a highly resilient quantum memory - phys.org - Oct 31, 2014

 

• Global quantum communications: No longer the stuff of fiction? - Science Daily - November 19, 2014

 

• Researchers find qubits based on trapped ions offer a promising scalable platform for quantum computing - phys.org - Nov 26, 2014

 

• A read head for quantum computers? Graphene layer reads optical information from nanodiamonds - phys.org - Dec 01, 2014

 

• Qubits come close to perfection - Nature News - 03 December 2014

 

• 'Fibonacci quasiparticle' could form basis of future quantum computers - phys.org - Dec 15, 2014

 

• Control on shape of light particles opens the way to 'quantum internet' - phys.org - Dec 15, 2014

 

• The importance of three-way atom interactions in maintaining coherence - phys.org - Dec 22, 2014

 

• A qubit candidate shines brighter - Science Daily - December 29, 2014

 

• Quantum hard drive breakthrough - phys.org - Jan 08, 2015

 

• Improved interface for a quantum internet - Science Daily - January 26, 2015

 

• Entanglement on a chip: Breakthrough promises secure communications and faster computers - Science Daily - January 26, 2015

 

• Quantum teleportation on a chip: Significant step towards ultra-high speed quantum computers - Science Daily - April 1, 2015

 

• 'Squeezed quantum cats' and 'stable cats' for quantum computers - Science Daily - May 26, 2015

 

• Donuts, math, and superdense teleportation of quantum information - Science Daily - May 28, 2015

 

• Superdense teleportation using hyperentangled photons - Nature News - 28 May 2015

 

• Blind quantum computing method surpasses efficiency 'limit' - phys.org - June 12, 2015

 

• Miniscule mirrored cavities connect quantum memories - Science Daily - June 22, 2015

 

• Universal linear optics - Sciencemag - 26 June 2015

 

• New method of quantum entanglement vastly increases how much information can be carried in a photon - phys.org - June 30, 2015

 

• Freezing single atoms to absolute zero with microwaves brings quantum technology closer: Atoms frozen to absolute zero using microwaves - Science Daily - July 2, 2015

 

• Quantum computer storage may require the help of an intermediary to transmit information - Science Daily - July 2, 2015

 

• Training Schrodinger's cat: Controlling the quantum properties of light - phys.org - July 8, 2015

 

• Quantum networks: Back and forth are not equal distances - Science Daily - July 27, 2015

 

• A way has been found to interconnect quantum devices including preserving entanglement - phys.org - August 21, 2015

 

• Quantum computer that 'computes without running' sets efficiency record - phys.org - August 31, 2015

 

• Quantum computing will bring immense processing possibilities - phys.org - September 2, 2015

 

• New diamond structures produce bright luminescence for quantum crypotography - phys.org - September 18, 2015

 

• Researchers take two big steps toward quantum computing - phys.org - November 6, 2015

 

• Quantum computer coding in silicon now possible - phys.org - November 16, 2015

 

• Bell's inequality violation with spins in silicon - Nature - 16 November 2015

 

• Researchers confirm 'realistic' answer to quantum network puzzle - phys.org - November 19, 2015

 

• Replicating the benefits of Deutschian closed timelike curves without breaking causality - Nature News - 24 November 2015

 

• Physicists set quantum record by using photons to carry messages from electrons almost 2 kilometers apart - phys.org - November 25, 2015

 

• Rainbow metric from quantum gravity - ScienceDirect - 20 October 2015

 

 

Secret weapons:

 

• Report: China building electromagnetic pulse weapons for use against U.S. carriers - The Washington Times -  July 21, 2011

 

• Frying tonight: Warfare is changing as weapons that destroy electronics, not people, are deployed on the field of battle - The economist - Oct 15th 2011

 

• Airplane-Mounted Laser Weapon Project May Be Resurrected to Defend Against North Korea - Popular Science - 05.01.2012

 

• Are We Ready for the Russian Zombie Gun? - Forbes - 4/04/2012

 

• DIRECTED-ENERGY WEAPONS: Testing sets pace for solid-state laser weapons - laserfocusworld - 10/10/2012

 

• Feds: Men conspired to build mobile x-ray weapon. Is that possible? - alloveralbany - Jun 19, 2013

 

• Feds nab KKK member, accomplice for lethal X-ray plot - CNN - June 21, 2013

 

• Defending against electromagnetic attacks - fraunhofer (Press Release) - Dec 02, 2013

 

• US military’s experimental hypersonic weapon explodes seconds after launch - ExtremeTech - August 26, 2014

 

• US navy shows off ship-based laser weapon in Persian Gulf - Theguardian - 10 December 2014

 

• Navy: New laser weapon works, ready for action - CNN - December 11, 2014

 

• Russia has developed super-high-frequency gun capable of deactivating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and the warheads of precision weapons at an impact range of ten kilometers which ensures 360 degrees of perimeter defense - Sputniknews - 15.06.2015

 

• Most people want fully autonomous weapons banned - phys.org - November 10, 2015

 

 

Future of society:

 

• Sweden Going Cashless: Pros and Cons of Paper Money - International Business Times - March 19 2012

 

• Killing off cash: Could new tech mean the end of money? - BBC News - 15 February 2013

 

• Do cashless buses signal the end for physical money? - BBC News -3 February 2014

 

• World's population will hit ELEVEN billion by 2100, claims report - dailymail.co.uk - 18 September 2014

 

• 365 days: 2014 in science - nature - 17 December 2014

 

• 'SafePay': First anti-fraud system to use existing credit card readers - phys.org - September 21, 2015

 

 

Polution and global warming:

 

• New data confirms Arctic ice trends: sea ice being lost at a rate of five days per decade - UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences - 4 March 2014

 

• Global boom in hydropower expected this decade - sciencedaily - October 24, 2014

 

• Not Just the Koch Brothers: New Drexel Study Reveals Funders Behind the Climate Change Denial Effort - Drexel Now (News releases) - December 20, 2013

 

• UD researchers report on new catalyst to convert greenhouse gases into chemicals - University of Delaware - Jan. 30, 2014

 

• The key role of dry days in changing regional climate and precipitation regimes - Nature News - 13 March 2014

 

• Building Better Soybeans for a Hot, Dry, Hungry World - NASA News - April 15, 2014

 

• Ice plug prevents irreversible discharge from East Antarctica - Nature News - 04 May 2014

 

• Scaling fluctuation analysis and statistical hypothesis testing of anthropogenic warming - SpringerLink - May 2014

 

• Contaminant particles increase hospital admissions for children with respiratory illnesses - Sinc - May 27 2015

 

• An interdisciplinary assessment of climate engineering strategies - Esajournals - June 2014

 

• A village with CO2-neutral buildings is possible - ETH Zurich - 21.07.2014

 

• A roadmap for repowering California for all purposes with wind, water, and sunlight - Science Direct - 14 August 2014

 

• Major breakthrough could help detoxify pollutants - Science Daily - October 19, 2014

 

• Key reaction for producing 'atmosphere's detergent' observed - Science Daily - September 26, 2014

 

• Geoengineering our climate is not a 'quick fix' - Science Daily -November 25, 2014

 

• California's policies can significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions through 2030 - phys.org - Jan 22, 2015

 

• Fully renewable energy system is economically viable in Finland in 2050 - Lappeenranta University of Technology -  07/06/15

 

• Switzerland's transition away from nuclear power - sciencedaily - July 7, 2015

 

• Anthropogenically enhanced chemical weathering and carbon evasion in the Yangtze Basin   - Nature News - 07 July 2015

 

• China’s rising hydropower demand challenges water sector  - Nature News - 09 July 2015

 

• Atmospheric benzenoid emissions from plants rival those from fossil fuels  - Nature News - 13 July 2015

 

• Obama makes case for renewable energy - phys.org - August 25, 2015

 

• World’s largest floating wind farm to be located off Scottish coast - Physics Today (AIP Scitation) - 03 novembre 2015

 

• Southwest Asia could become too hot for humans in 30 years - Physics Today (AIP Scitation) - 09 novembre 2015

 

• NASA Holds Media Briefing on Carbon's Role in Earth's Future Climate - NASA News - November 9, 2015

 

• Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit Record, Report Says - New York Times - Nov. 10, 2015

 

• Climate change sentiment could hit global investment portfolios in the short term - University of Cambridge - 12 Nov 2015

 

• In Greenland, Another Major Glacier Comes Undone - NASA News - November 12, 2015

 

• Climate negotiations in Paris could increase use of low-carbon energy technologies - MIT news - November 13, 2015

 

 

Neuroscience & psychology:

 

• The reason we lose at games - The University of Manchester - 08 Jan 2013

 

•  How sleep helps us learn and memorize - Science Daily  May 28, 2015

 

• Acceptance of an unjust devaluation is the essence of humiliation - Sinc - June 02 2015

 

• High levels of moral reasoning correspond with increased gray matter in brain - Science Daily - June 3, 2015

 

• Individual differences in intuitive processing moderate responses to moral transgressions - Science Direct - 25 August 2015

 

• Giraffe machine has taught itself to play chess at higher levels - phys.org - September 16, 2015

 

• Why are some people prone to hallucinations? According to new research from the University of Cambridge and Cardiff University, hallucinations may come from our attempts to make sense of the ambiguous and complex world around us - University of Cambridge - 12 Oct 2015

 

 

 Biology , chemistry & biotechnology:

 

• Gold-digging bacterium makes precious particles - Nature News - 03 February 2013

 

• Power behind primordial soup discovered - University of Leeds (Research and innovation news) - 4 April 2013

 

• Stanford scientists use 'wired microbes' to generate electricity from sewage - Stanford News - September 16, 2013

 

• Bees Capable of Learning Feats with Tasty Prize in Sight - University of Guelph - March 18, 2014

 

• Study finds pigeons and other animals, like humans, can place everyday things in categories - University of Iowa news - 2014.04.02

 

• Humanized Foxp2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance - Procidings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - April 29, 2014

 

• Liquid helium offers a fascinating new way to make charged molecules - Science Daily - October 24, 2014

 

• Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate - Proceedings of the Royal Society - 5 November 2014

 

• Ants’ movements hide mathematical patterns - Sinc - May 11 2015

 

 

 

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