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
A rising tide is said to lift all boats. Rising global temperatures, however,
may lead to increased disparities between rich and poor countries, according to
a recent MIT economic analysis of the impact of climate change on growth. ...
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Location: New York, United States
Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a
bipedal, autonomous DNA "walker" that can mimic a cell's transportation system.
The device, which marks a step toward more complex synthetic molecular motor
systems, is...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
The laws of physics dictate that traditional lenses can't focus light onto a spot narrower than half the wavelength of the light. But converting the light into waves called plasmons can get around this limitation. Plasmonic lithography, which uses...
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Location: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Panama
As was done in several tropical regions, a team will use an airborne equipment to study the canopy of the forest of the Shire, in the Puy-de-Dome. Together with other studies, conducted from the ground, this exploration will comprehensively...
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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: Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, United States
Using new techniques for rapidly scanning the human genome, researchers have
associated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, two fats in the blood, to 18
genetic variants, six of which represent new
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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: Harvard University, United States
Psychologists at Harvard
University have developed a new method to study extrasensory perception
that, they argue, can resolve the century-old debate over its existence.
According to the...
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University
of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical
environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky...
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Location: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, United States
A new study provides the first evidence that people with higher body mass
index (BMI) may have a greater response to ozone than leaner people. Short-term
exposure to atmospheric ozone has long been known to cause a temporary drop in
lung...
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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: University of Washington, United States
Scientists since the early '90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots. Then the plants break certain kinds of pollutants into harmless...
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Location: University of Delaware, United States
In a rapid follow-up to their achievement as the first to demonstrate how an
electron's spin can be electrically injected, controlled and detected in
silicon, electrical engineers from the University
of...
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Location: Santa Fe Institute, United States
In animals with separate sexes, embryos commit to becoming male or female at
an early stage. Often this key decision is made by sex
determination genes on the sex
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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: Suite 5K39, Washington, DC 20546-0001, United States
Pack your bags because NASA Goddard's "suitcase
science" is taking off. Coming on the heels of two Lunar Sortie Science
Opportunities (LSSO) awards for
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Location: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl, New York, NY 10007-2157, United States
China has experienced tremendous growth within the past decade. Its
economic boom and growing domestic market is now paralleled by its...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
In work that could one day help prevent millions of dollars in economic
losses for seaside communities, MIT chemists have demonstrated how tiny marine
organisms likely produce the red tide toxin that periodically shuts down U.S.
beaches and...
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Location: SEAS, Harvard University,33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Computer scientists at Harvard's School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from the
Netherlands, are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to explore
a next-generation model for safe and...
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