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: Cambridge, United States
Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it
has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly
impossible to distinguish by sight alone.
Tactile devices, which translate sound...
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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: Nanjing, China
A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype in 2006, a team of Duke University...
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Location: Colorado, United States
Deborah Jin and Jun Ye of the JILA institute (from collaboration between the University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST) have just published their first results on the creation of a polarized molecules of gas to a temperature of 0 K absolute (350...
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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: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Rutgers University, United States
A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward
helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the
universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted since the “big
bang,” and...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains,
planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while
macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects—mangled steel, bruised...
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Location: University of Rochester, United States
Researchers at the
University of Rochester
have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a
regular MP3 file.
The music, a...
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Location: University of Maryland, United States
University of
Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the
mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than
any...
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Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, United States
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often
produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has
a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing...
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate
three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the
texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or
touch-based,...
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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: University of California, Riverside, United States
A
University of California - Riverside -led study in the Mojave Desert,
Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high...
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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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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly
maps the mechanical properties of materials—how stiff or stretchy they are,
for...
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Location: Fraunhofer Techologie-Entwicklungsgruppe, Germany
Carbon
nanotubes possess extraordinary mechanical, physical and chemical properties
including actuation behaviour on both nano and...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania, United States
Scientists may be one step closer to understanding the atomic forces that cause friction, thanks to a recently published study by researchers from the
University of Pennsylvania, the
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