Location: Cambridge, United States
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of
swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real
thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo...
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Location: Tsukuba, Japan
Among all available materials, diamond has the optimal characteristics with
respect to hardness, thermal conductivity, light transmission wavelength range,
and chemical stability. Furthermore, as a semiconducting material, diamond shows...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT physicists have discovered that several high-temperature superconductors
display patchwork quilt-like variations at the atomic scale, a surprising
finding that could help scientists understand a new class of unconventional
materials....
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Carbon nanotubes - tiny, rolled-up tubes of graphite - promise to add speed
to electronic circuits and strength to materials like carbon composites, used in
airplanes and racecars. A major problem, however, is that the metals used to
grow...
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Location: Chalmer, Sweden
Abstract :
In case of a canister failure in a deep bedrock repository for nuclear fuel,
the release of radiotoxic nuclides to the groundwater will depend on the
chemical environment near the fuel surface. Due to the presence of large...
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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
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: DR Inserm North - West, 1 avenue Oscar Lambret - BP 90005, 59008 Lille Cedex - Tel. : 03 20 29 86 70 : 03 20 29 86 70 , Belgium
The Bilhvax vaccine against schistosomiasis, entered its third phase of
development, phase of development in clinical research in Senegal to confirm its
effectiveness before it is placed on the market. To date, the vaccine was tested
among...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
A miniature telescope implanted into the eye could soon help people with
vision loss from end-stage macular degeneration. Last week, an advisory panel
for the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended that the agency
approve...
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Location: Los Angeles, United States
New research suggests that the layer of insulation coating neural wiring in
the brain plays a critical role in determining intelligence. In addition, the
quality of this insulation appears to be largely genetically determined,
providing...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Atlanta, United States
Airline passengers arriving in Atlanta on early morning “redeye” flights
during the past few months may have noticed something different during their
descent to the runway. Instead of the typical sound of engine power rising and...
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Location: Southampton University, United Kingdom
While well known for its lack of accuracy – to the point where its usage is largely inadmissible in a court of law – the contentious reliability of the lie-detector test could be set for something of a boost thanks to the creation...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
McGill researchers discover a mutation that promotes the metabolism of fat instead of storing
According to researchers at McGill University, the recent discovery of a
previously unknown mutation in a common nematode, or round...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human.
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Location: Colorado, United States
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Colorado School of Mines (CSM) have developed a prototype sensor that quickly detects very small amounts of hydrogen accumulation in coated pipeline steel.
The new...
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Location: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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Location: University of Bonn, Germany
Researchers at the University of Bonn in cooperation with American and Israeli colleagues have identified a molecule that may be responsible for the recurrence of seizures. According to statistics, a German victim is over 20, during his life,...
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Location: NIST, United States
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated their ability to measure relatively low levels of stress or strain in regions of a semiconductor device as small as 10 nanometers across. Their recent...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Guest researcher John Jendzurski prepares the NIST electromagnetic phantom for passage through the walk-through metal detector behind it. The carbon-polymer blocks of the phantom are arranged in a form that simulates the mass and height of the...
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