Using scrap metal and a common household chemical, a team from Vanderbilt University has developed a high performance battery.“The tons of metal waste discarded every year could be used to provide storage for renewable energy instead of becoming a burden for waste processing plants and the environment,” said assistant professor Cary P...

A research team from UCLA says it has made a major step forward in developing and using topological insulators, which conduct electricity on their surface, but not in their interior.Magnetised topological insulators could improve the energy efficiency and operating speed of computers ‘dramatically’, says the team, which offers two w...

A European health consortium is developing a set of low radiation, low cost, flat panel X-ray detectors that use novel photonics technology to make diagnosis safer for patients and medical staff.While X-ray is a useful diagnostic tool, it can be harmful to the body. Although the level of radiation can be reduced, this has come at the expense of...

Specialist in mid-air touchless haptic technology, Ultrahaptics, has introduced a development platform that allows companies to evaluate and appreciate the benefits of gesture controls enhanced by tactile feedback sensations. The UHDK5 TOUCH Development Kit provides a complete hardware and software package with an architecture that can be embedded...

A group of researchers from University at Buffalo, California Institute of Technology and City University of New York has demonstrated a way to control light with light using one third – in some cases, even less – of the energy typically required. The advancement, coupled with other developments, could lead to more powerful, energy-effi...

Aquantia, a specialist in high-speed Ethernet connectivity solutions for data centres, mobile, and enterprise infrastructure, has unveiled a new class of high-performance connectivity architecture that has the potential, according to the company, to revolutionise next-generation hyperscale data centres.The technology, QuantumStream, has been de...

In a move intended to build on the on-going success of the micro:bit a new non-profit Foundation has been launched. The Foundation is intended to lower barriers to technology invention for young people, makers and developers and support teachers and educational organisations improve digital skills.So far this year the BBC micro:bit partnership...

Tektronix has introduced a CAN FD protocol trigger, decode and search solution for its MDO3000 and MDO4000C Series of mixed domain oscilloscopes. The move is said to help automotive engineers meet consumer demand for more capable and sophisticated electronic modules and integrated systems.Widely adopted in the automobile industry, the original...

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have revealed, in a paper published in Nature Protocols, how to create and use transparent graphene neural electrode arrays in applications in electrophysiology, fluorescent microscopy, optical coherence tomography, and optogenetics.Professor Zhenqiang Ma's group claims its see-through, implantable...

Developer of energy-harvesting wireless technology, EnOcean, has announced its first modules for 2.4GHz Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) systems. EnOcean will also now offer its energy harvesting wireless modules and white label products under the brand name ‘Dolphin’.The first product in the EnOcean 2.4GHz BLE portfolio is the battery le...