Researchers use lasers to supercool semiconductor membranes, blow your mind
Ah, lasers. Those wonderful, super intense beams of light that we’ve seen used in headlights, projectors, and naturally, death rays. Like us, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen figure there’s nothing lasers can’t d…
The Amazing Gecko-Man: a superhero future made possible by probable science
There’s no superhero origin story that begins with a bite (or a lick?) from a gecko. Plain ‘ol wall climbing powers are, it seems, just not as sexy as wearing skintight suits, slinging webs and crawling up buildings. But if a few bright minds at the U…
IBM stores bits on arrays of atoms, shrinks magnetic storage to the scientific limit
IBM’s Almaden Research Center is filled with some of the best and brightest minds in the world, and its researchers just released new findings that detail how just how far IBM has come in the realm of magnetic storage. Andreas Heinrich is leading the …
Cyborg cockroaches inch closer to reality, blame science
Few things on this planet are more indestructible than the lowly cockroach — except, of course, a cyborg cockroach. That’s what researchers at Case Western Reserve University are looking to create, and they’re a lot closer than you may think. In …