Tech: Ultra-clean fabrication platform produces nearly ideal 2D transistors — (Report)
Semiconductors, which are the basic building blocks of transistors, microprocessors, lasers, and LEDs, have driven advances in computing, memory, communications, and lighting technologies...
Tech: Death of the middleman? Imagining a cheaper, fairer marketplace for digital goods —...
E-commerce is sizzling. Last year, consumers spent more than $517 billion online with US merchants, up 15 percent from the year before, according...
Tech: Polymers jump through hoops on pathway to sustainable materials — (Report)
Recyclable plastics that contain ring-shaped polymers may be a key to developing sustainable synthetic materials. Despite some promising advances, researchers said, a full...
Tech: Is NASA looking at the wrong rocks for clues to Martian life? —...
In 2020, NASA and European-Russian missions will look for evidence of past life on Mars. But while volcanic, igneous rock predominates on the...
Tech: Australian islands home to 414 million pieces of plastic pollution — (Report)
A survey of plastic pollution on Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands has revealed the territory's beaches are littered with an estimated 414 million pieces...
Tech: New method enables powerful quantum simulation on hardware available today — (Report)
With a quantum coprocessor in the cloud, physicists from Innsbruck, Austria, open the door to the simulation of previously unsolvable problems in chemistry,...
Tech: New AI sees like a human, filling in the blanks — (Report)
Computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have taught an artificial intelligence agent how to do something that usually only humans...
Tech: Coating provides extra layer of protection for battery cathodes — (Report)
Coating provides extra layer of protection for battery cathodes.
Building a better lithium-ion battery involves addressing a myriad of factors simultaneously, from keeping the...
Tech: Small, hardy planets most likely to survive death of their stars — ...
Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies,...
Tech: Breakthrough in new material to harness solar power — (Report)
The most affordable, efficient way to harness the cleanest, most abundant renewable energy source in the world is one step closer to reality.
The...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
