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Location: Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences,Maxwell Dworkin 149, United States
It weighs only 60 Milligramm, resembles its brothers in free nature and could a revolution in the monitoring technology cause: Scientists around Robert Wood of the Harvard MicroRobotics team developed a robot fly, which can actually take off. The...
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Location: Brookhaven National Lab,P.O. Box 5000,Upton, NY 11973-5000,(631)344-8000, United States
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have generated extremely short pulses of light that are the strongest of their type ever produced and could prove invaluable in probing the ultra-fast motion of atoms...
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Location: University of Southampton,Southampton,SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Dr Steve Beeby and his team at the University's School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) have developed a kinetic energy generator which generates electrical energy from the vibrations and movements present within its environment.
'This...
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Location: The James Franck Institute ,Center for Integrative Science, E2The University of Chicago ,, 929 East 57th. St. Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Tightly packed molecules lend unexpected strength to nanothin sheet of material
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the surprising strength of a sheet of nanoparticles that measures just...
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Location: E15-419, United States
Robotic ankle research gets off on the right foot
Army vet demos MIT prosthesis; device is first of its kind
An Army veteran who lost part of his leg in Iraq walked with more spring in his step Monday as he unveiled the world's first robotic...
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Location: Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut,Schlossgartenstr. 6,64289 Darmstadt, Deutschland, Germany
Imagine cleaning out your refrigerator and being able to tell at a glance whether perishable food items have spoiled, because the packaging has changed its color, or being able to tell if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply by stretching it to...
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Location: Massachusetts General Hospital,55 Fruit Street, GRJ-12-1206, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) surgeons have performed the first total hip replacement using a joint socket lined with a novel material invented at the MGH. An advance over first-generation highly crosslinked polyethylene, which was also...
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Location: New Jersey Institute of Technology,323 M. L. K. Blvd.Newark,N.J. - 07102., United States
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. "The process is simple," said lead researcher and author Somenath Mitra, PhD,...
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Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
To develop techniques for making highly coherent quantum systems using integrated circuits. This includes developing new high fidelity measurements techniques for quantum systems. Ultimately, we would like to help make large-scale quantum...
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Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
Electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes—single-atom defects in the crystal—they’re killers. That’s one of the conclusions reached by researchers from the...
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Location: 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8423,Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8423, United States
Two superconducting devices have been coaxed into a special, interdependent state that mimics the unusual interactions sometimes seen in pairs of atoms, according to a team of physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology,325 Broadway, MC 817.03,Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328, United States
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an improved version of a real-time magnetic microscopy system that converts evidence of tampering on magnetic audio and video tapes—erasing, overdubbing and other...
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Location: ooo, United States
Eco technology for a sustainable world
Sustainability is a priority in everything that Intel does. As an eco-technology leader, Intel is pioneering energy-efficient technologies and environmentally responsible strategies to fashion a...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Department of Physics
77 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge, MA 02139-4307tel: 617.253.4800,fax: 617.253.8554, United States
MIT physicists have developed a spectroscopy technique that allows researchers to inspect the world of electrons confined to a two-dimensional plane more clearly than ever before
Two-dimensional electron systems, in which electrons are walled...
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Location: Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208-3100 Phone: (847) 491-5635 | Fax: (847) 491-4928, United States
Geckos are remarkable in their ability to scurry up vertical surfaces and even move along upside down. Their feet stick but only temporarily, coming off of surfaces again and again like a sticky note. But put those feet underwater, and their...
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Location: Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs,34 Agnew Hall (MC 0409),Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States
Virginia Tech has been researching and implementing integrated pest management for more than a quarter century.
Dinner plates and wallets reflect the triumphs and trials faced by food-growers and their crops from across the globe.
In...
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Location: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
The adaptive immune response enables the vertebrate immune system to recognize and respond to specific pathogens, with immunological memory allowing a stronger response upon subsequent re-exposure to a pathogen. Adaptive immunity relies on the...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue ,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
Try this at home. Pour clean water onto a small plate. Wait for all the ripples to stop. Then mix a small amount of mineral oil with an even smaller amount of detergent. Squeeze a tiny drop of that mixture onto the water and watch in amazement as...
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Location: Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
Debate over the origins of modern humans has simmered among anthropologists for years, with one theory asserting that Homo sapiens migrated across the world from a single point in Africa. The other theory states that multiple populations of Homo...
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Location: 1-3-1, Kasumigaseki,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8921-Phone : +81-29-861-2000, Japan
Naohiro Noda (Research Scientist) of the Bio-Measurement Research Group (Leader: Yuji Sekiguchi), the Institute for Biological Resources and Functions (Director: Masahiro Iwakura) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and...
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