Location: Nepoli, France
Watching a metal transform into a superconductor, it may not be obvious that
this transition provides access to some of the same physics that governed the
cooling of the universe following the Big Bang. Yet at the root of both of these...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Ultracold atoms are still too hot. This may seem a ridiculous claim—after
all, the low-temperature exploits of the purveyors of quantum gases are
notorious. Laser cooling can flash-freeze atoms to temperatures in the micro-
and nanokelvin...
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Location: California, United States
Abstract:
The ability to pattern nanostructures has important
applications in medical diagnosis,(1,
2) sensing,
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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT
researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria.
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have long
enlisted bacteria and yeast to...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Folding paper into shapes such as a crane or a butterfly is challenging
enough for most people. Now imagine trying to fold something that's about a
hundred times thinner than a human hair and then putting it to use as an
electronic device....
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to
stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and
other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in cost.
Moreover,...
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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
For the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation
of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals
-- in this case, fish.
The work, conducted using a novel imaging technique,...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Devices can help children with
brain injuries learn to grasp and manipulate objects
Over the past few years, MIT engineers have successfully tested robotic
devices to help stroke patients learn to control their arms and...
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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: California, United States
Abstract :
As robots designed to operate underwater become more common, it is useful to look at ways to make them more efficient. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) carry their power source with them, so improving the efficiency of the...
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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: Nansen, Norway
A research team from the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, both in Bergen, Norway, has studied observed anomalies in ocean climate, and identified the anomalies’ progression...
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Location: Paris, France
A few seconds after the earthquake that devastated L'Aquila, in Abruzzo, a group
of seismologists, south of Paris, already knew that a quake of earth had to
produce. Their instruments? The Web. Seismologists? Witnesses themselves. To...
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Location: Illinois, United States
Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive
molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for
studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.
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Location: University of Utah, United States
University of Utah scientists devised a new way to find miners trapped by
cave-ins. The method involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at
regular intervals inside mines, and sensitive listening devices on the ground...
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Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
A remarkable new invention from Tel Aviv University — a network of tiny
sensors as small as dewdrops called "Smart Dew" — will foil even the most
determined intruder. Scattered outdoors on rocks, fence posts and...
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Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Hydrogen is an attractive alternative to address the depletion of fossil fuels.
A large-scale exploitation of this form of energy requires, however, to resolve
a number of technical problems associated with the production, transport and...
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