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Biometric Security: Your Body as Your Password
Biometric security has proven to be an effective and convenient way to bolster security, especially on mobile devices, which have the technology built-in.
Learning How the Brain Moves from Sight to Recognition
Results provide a step toward understanding the stages of information processing.
Scientists Extend Life of Sound Waves in Glass
Extending the lifetime of sound waves traveling through glass could help to optimize performance of optomechanical systems.
Nissan Introduces Driverless Towing at Auto Plant
Unlike automatic guided vehicle systems for transporting parts that require the installation of rails or extensive use of magnetic tape, IVT does not demand any special infrastructure to operate.
Liquid Crystal Panel Achieves Million-to-One Contrast Ratio
Conventional liquid crystal panels can suffer black floating in dark parts when the backlight intensity is increased, as well as a loss in sparkle in bright parts when the backlight intensity is lowered.
Laser Strike App Designed to Enhance Aviation Safety
The Laser Event Recorder app uses an iPhone's built-in camera, GPS and connectivity to record, analyze and communicate details of an incident.
Blind "J-Turn" Record Shows Off Onboard Camera Technology
Four camera images are digitally stitched together and displayed on the dashboard screen to visually confirm the vehicle’s position relative to the lines around parking spaces.
Robots to Colonize Venice Lagoon
Robots would not only carry out operations for which they are programmed, but develop social skills and learn how to communicate and interact with other robots and the surrounding environment.
Swarming Boats Carry Out Test Mission Autonomously
Using a combination of software, radar and sensors, a “swarm” of rigid-hull inflatable boats and other small vessels collectively performed patrol missions autonomously.
Low-Cost Spectral Imaging on the Horizon
Optical spectral imaging offers a versatile way of sensing various objects and analyzing their material properties.
Electric Current Used to Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
When doctors use antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection, many of these microorganisms die. Bacteria that form a biofilm are harder to kill because antibiotics only partially penetrate this layer.
Sensor Will Monitor the Inside of an Avalanche
Avalanches are made up of several layers that behave like solids, liquids or dust-containing gases. The new sensor records variations in the snow density in the dust layer.
Squeezing Light Into New Miniature Devices
With the end of Moore's Law apparently approaching, the future of big data processing will require new technologies to allow high-performance computers with faster operations.
AI Used to Create Safer Lithium-ion Battery
Stanford University researchers put artificial intelligence and machine learning to work to speed development of a safer lithium-ion battery.
Papertronics Battery on a Single Sheet of Paper
Stand-alone and self-sustained, paper-based, point-of-care devices may become essential to providing effective and life-saving treatments in resource-limited settings.
Iridium: The Audacious SatComm Network That (Almost) Couldn't
An audacious satellite communications program launched, nearly failed, and eventually found its orbit, albeit with government help.
Drone Monitoring of Ship Emissions to Begin in EU
Martek's drones will sample gases from vessels' emission plumes using electro-optical, infrared imaging, gas emission and automatic identification system sensors.
Water-Wave Laser Developed
Researchers have shown that water-wave oscillations within a liquid device can generate laser radiation.
Sodium-Embedded Carbon for Better Energy Devices
The material can improve the performance of solar cells and supercapacitors.
Optical Probe May Allow More Precise Removal of Breast Cancer
The newly developed probe operates on the principle that cancer tissue has a more acidic environment than normal cells, generating more lactic acid as a byproduct of its aggressive growth.