Back in 2012, authors from Microsoft Research and UbiComp Lab at University of Washington prepared their paper, "SoundWave: Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures," for the Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing
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Professor Howard Wiseman, Director of Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics. Credit: Griffith University An experiment devised in Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics has for the first time demonstrated Albert Einstein's original conception of "spooky action at a distance"
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Illustration of the interference between light from the quantum dot (black sphere) and radiation from the mirror dipole (black sphere on the wire). This interference will slightly distort the perceived location of the diffraction spot as imaged on a black
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hour ago Google selects as its new chief financial officer Ruth Porat, who will replace Patrick Pichette Google on Tuesday named as its new chief financial officer Ruth Porat, a Morgan Stanley banker considered one of the most powerful women
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The research group of Prof. Tomislav Friščić in McGill's Department of Chemistry has made a name for itself in the little-known, but growing field of "mechanochemistry," in which chemical transformations are produced by milling, grinding or shearing solid-state ingredients –
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Satellite radar image of the magnitude 6.0 South Napa earthquake. The "fringe" rainbow pattern appears where the earthquake deformed the ground's surface, with one full cycle of the color spectrum (magenta to magenta) showing 3 centimeters of change. Satellite data
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Purified wastewater using membrane filtration. Credit: Teemu Leinonen, LUT Contaminants such as medical residues and pesticides go through the traditional wastewater purifying process and go back to the environment. Concern over their volyme in waste and drinking water is growing
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