Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid
transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance
that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries -- for cell phones and other
devices -- that...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look
in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him.
In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have...
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Location: Seattle, United States
A single hour of sunlight contains enough energy to meet global energy consumption for an entire year. With demand for energy on the rise and environmental pollution an increasing concern, scientists are exploring new ways to harness the sun's...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Professor Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) unveiled a report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. The report is based on the findings of a major MIT symposium on retrofitting coal-fired power...
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by
thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and
cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are
proving to be...
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Location: Carnegie, United States
The single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii generates hydrogen by
fermentation under low oxygen conditions. Cells in photo are stained with
fluorescent dyes. Purple indicates DNA, green indicates flagella.
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Location: MIT, United States
The WiTricity system developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is capable of supplying wireless bulb from 60W up to 2 meters away.
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has managed to operate a 60W bulb by...
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Location: University of Florida, United States
Cymbals don’t clash of their own accord – in our world,
anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed
almost infinitesimally close together, spontaneously attract each other.
What...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Researchers have devised a technology that can distinguish mine collapses
from other seismic activity. Using the large seismic disturbance associated with
the Crandall Canyon mine collapse last August,
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon
nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves
within these tiny channels.
This is the first time researchers were able to...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
For almost half a century, scientists have struggled with
plutonium contamination spreading further in groundwater than expected,
increasing the risk of sickness in humans and animals.
It was known...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
A new approach is able to create a dramatic improvement in
cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. By using a popcorn-ball
design -- tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres -- researchers at
the...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a
drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental
state of matter created by scientists at the
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Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Looking for evidence of life on Mars or other planets?
Finding cellulose microfibers would be the next best thing to a close encounter,
according to new research from the ...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Astronomers have made the best determination of the power of
a supernova explosion long after it was visible from Earth. This technique,
using X-ray and optical observations, may help reveal the details of how some
stars...
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Location: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Department of Energy, United States
If the Flintstones had electricity, their wires might have
been made of rock. New results in Science Express show that a chunk of hematite
can conduct electrons under certain chemical conditions. In addition, the
current...
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Location: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States
Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence
on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but
scientists at the U.S. Department of
Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory
and their collaborators have...
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