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Location: California, United States
In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like
an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of
hexagons. But this nanoscopic material called graphene, first generally
acknowledged...
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Location: Georgia Tech Research Institute, United States
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing increasingly important roles in
many fields. Ranging in size from the huge Global Hawk aircraft to hand-held
machines, these remotely controlled devices are growing ever more vital to the
U.S....
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Location: Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, United States
For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of
science fiction — in last summer's blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys
use quantum computing to break into the
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Location: University of Missouri, Colombia
A modern computer contains two different types of components:
magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor
components, which perform logic operations. A
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Location: Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), United States
Tracking the location and availability of resources such as hospitals,
transportation equipment and water during an emergency situation can be
life-saving.
A collaborative mapping tool developed by the
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Location: Children's Hospital Boston, United States
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new "nanobiotechnology" that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which...
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Location: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, United States
A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased
risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications,
GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM transactions, showed signs it was on
its way...
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Location: Rice University, United States
What is the fundamental creative force behind life on Earth" It's a
question that has vexed mankind for millennia, and thanks to theory and almost a
year's worth of number-crunching on a supercomputer,
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Location: St. Schepkina. 42, Moscow, Russian Federation
Russia's space agency will soon announce a tender to
develop a new carrier rocket, to ensure successful implementation of its
manned-flight program, a top space official said Wednesday.
"A special commission will determine the design...
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Location: California, United States
A research team from the Northern California Cancer Center, the University of Southern California, and Wake Forest University School of Medicine has found that increased exposure to sunlight – which increases levels of vitamin D in the body --...
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Location: Los Angeles,The University of Southern California, United States
Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the more 2.8 billion allocated addresses on...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, United States
It’s not every day an engineering professor gets to rub elbows with top
military brass, watch from a few meters away as three F-15 fighter jets refuel
in mid air, and stroll through a “petting zoo” of Cold War era Soviet machines
of war. ...
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Location: University of Rochester Medical Center. Rochester, NY 14627, United States
The 15 minutes it took to remove Buffalo Bills player Kevin Everett off the
field after he suffered a spinal cord injury may seem like a long time for
someone needing acute medical care, but in fact, those minutes underscore how
critical it...
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Location: Peterson Laboratory, Building 550, Room 556Q,416 Escondido Mall,Stanford, CA 94305-2205, United States
In an experiment modeled on the classic “Young’s double slit experiment” and published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, researchers have powerfully reinforced the understanding that surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagate and diffract...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
With a major grant from the Office of Naval
Affairs, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are collaborating with
four other universities to address a hot topic in today’s military: how to keep
modern ships cool in extreme...
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Location: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, United States
University of
California, Riverside Computer Science & Engineering Professors Michalis
Faloutsos and Srikanth Krishnamurthy will be designing battle-hardened wireless
network architecture for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of a...
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Location: 75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100 ,
Atlanta, Georgia 30308 , United States
Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed...
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