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Location: Baton Rouge, LA 70803,Louisiana ,, United States
Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics.
First suggested by Albert Einstein more than 100...
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Location: MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center ,
77 Massachusetts Avenue,NW17-186,Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
Know about Fusion
e absolutely no charge at all. These nucleons are held together by a powerful force, known as the strong force. The amount of energy you would have to expend to overcome the strong force and dismantle the nucleus is...
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Location: Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute,
The Open University,Walton HallMilton Keynes
,MK7 6AA,UK, United Kingdom
A UK team is developing a concept mission that aims to land a spacecraft on the potato-shaped object and grab material off its surface.
These small rock fragments would then be despatched to Earth in a capsule. "It is being seen as a...
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Location: CNRS/University Victor Ségalen, Bordeaux, France
There are two phases in the genesis of a movement directed towards a target when several choices are possible: firstly decision-making (cognitive information) and then the direction of this movement towards to the target (motor information). The...
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Location: CEA,, France
Astronomers have found a new class of objects in space: a neutron star orbiting inside a cocoon of cold gas and/or dust that hides a bloated supergiant star. In a strange twist of fate, these objects may be tremendously luminous, but the...
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Location: Evanston, IL,, United States
1d nanostructures such as semiconductor nanowires; recently developed synthetic methods suggest ways to engineer the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of semiconductor nanowires by varying composition on the nanometer scale. A few of...
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Location: Cambridge, MA, USA, United States
This paper describes the status of the 2004 edition of the HITRAN molecular spectroscopic database. The HITRAN compilation consists of several components that serve as input for radiative transfer calculation codes: individual line parameters for...
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Location: Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
FXB Building 1320 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2140 , United States
The University of Michigan Department of Aerospace Engineering can boast among its many resources 10 wind tunnels for instructional and research work. These tunnels are run by the Gas Dynamics Laboratories (GDL), which consists of a closely...
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Location: Michigan,College of Engineering, University of Michigan, United States
The first detailed images of a binary asteroid system reveal a bizarre world where the highest points on the surface are actually the lowest, and the two asteroids dance in each other's gravitational pull.
A binary asteroid is a system where...
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Location: Newark, DE 19711,New Castle, United States
Applications of dynamics and control range from manufacturing to medical rehabilitation, from vibration damping in aircraft to the assembly of satellite parts in outer space. As manufacturing processes become more complex and the performance...
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Location: New Jersey,Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
As they eliminate tiny air bubbles that form when liquid droplets are molded into intricate circuits, a Princeton-led team is dissolving a sizable obstacle to the mass production of smaller, cheaper microchips.
Led by Stephen Chou, the...
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Location: California, United States
When Princeton University engineers want to increase the power output of their new fuel cell, they just give it a little more gas – hydrogen gas, to be exact. Though the simple control mechanism was previously thought impossible, Jay Benziger, a...
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Location: Mercury computer sys., Chelmsford, MA 01824-2820 & Genesis Digital Imaging, Inc,Los Angeles, CA 90066, United States
The Institute of Medical Physics (Erlangen, Germany)
Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, Mass.)
The Imaging Challenge
Advances in sensor technology in Computed Tomography (CT) have created an increasing number of images per...
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Location: cambridge, United States
In work that could lead to completely new devices, systems and applications in computing and telecommunications, MIT researchers are bringing the long-sought goal of "optics on a chip" one step closer to market.
In the January 2007...
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Location: University of Colorado,440 UCB,Boulder, CO 80309-0440, United States
For astrophysicists working to discover the origins of stars and planets, a small clue can go a long way. They can’t get a close look at distant stars and planets, so they only know the barest details about other planetary systems. One such detail...
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Location: University of Colorado,440 UCB,Boulder, CO 80309-0440, United States
By combining two cutting-edge laboratory creations--optical lattices and atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) spinning in a trap like planets orbiting the sun--physicists at JILA have developed a method of visualizing defects, or...
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Location: 111 Cummington Street Boston, MA, United States
Low dimensional maps for gamma and theta oscillations.
Postdocs Dmitri Pervouchine, and Tay Netoff , along with J. White and Kopell, finished a paper using 1-D and 2-D maps to describe how 3-cell networks taken from the...
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia 30308, United States
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have conducted successful test flights of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft believed to be the largest to fly on a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell using compressed hydrogen.
The...
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Location: Stanford, CA, United States
With organic, or carbon-based, transistors in electronics specially in Flexible electronics could enable technologies such as low-cost sensors on product packaging and ''electronic paper'' displays as thin and floppy as a placemat. But the best...
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Location: Albany,NY, United States
Normally a system designed to produce potentially up to 600 Watt hours of run-time per cartridge which would allow airmen to power an average laptop over seven (7) times longer than its current Lithium-ion battery. In addition, since the...
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