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Location: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,The Stata Center, Building 32 - 32 Vassar Street - Cambridge,, United States
Robots that manipulate everyday tools in
unstructured, human settings could more easily work with people and perform
tasks that are important to people. Task demonstration could serve as an
intuitive way for people to program robots to...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue ,e25-519,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
Large mammals--humans, monkeys, and even
cats--have brains with a somewhat mysterious feature: The outermost layer has a
folded surface. Understanding the functional significance of these folds is one
of the big open questions in...
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Location: Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center,Mason F. Lord Building, West Tower,URobotics Laboratory, Room 115,
5200 Eastern Ave.Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
Johns Hopkins Urology
Robotics Lab report the invention of a motor without metal or electricity that
can safely power remote-controlled robotic medical devices used for cancer
biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic resonance imaging. The...
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Location: 4-1-1 Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku,Kawasaki, Kanagawa 211-8588, Japan
Yokogawa Electric Corporation and Fujitsu
Limited today announced the joint development of the world's first practical 40
Gbps optical transmission technologies using differential quadrature phase shift
keying (DQPSK)(
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology,Materials Science and Engineering,771 Ferst Drive, N.W.,Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, United States
Researchers have demonstrated a prototype
nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by
harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic
waves, mechanical vibration or blood...
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Location: Health Sciences Campus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033. (323) 442-2000, United States
A study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Harvard Medical School has identified seven genetic risk factors – DNA sequences carried by some people but not others – that predict risk for
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Location: The University of Queensland,Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia,, Australia
Neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) are astounded at the detail available to them in brain images being generated by UQ's new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) spectrometer.
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Location: Headquarters: 3, rue Michel-Ange ,75794 Paris cedex 16,Telephone: +33 1 44 96 40 00 ,Fax: +33 1 44 96 53 90, France
Genetic tests
could enable the targeting of effective treatments for patients with cystic
fibrosis. This has been suggested by Aleksander Edelman, CNRS Director of
Research at INSERM Unit 845 "Growth and Signalling Research Centre" and his...
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Location: California Institute of Technology, ,M.C. 128-95, Pasadena, CA, 91125,, United States
Physicists seeking
to tame plasma have figured out yet another of its wily ways. Knowing how plasma
escapes the grip of magnetic fields may help researchers design better magnetic
bottles to contain it. Magnetic confinement could be a...
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Location: 106 Riley-Robb Hall,Cornell University,Ithaca, NY 14853,607 255-2465, United States
A Cornell researcher is working
to develop a quick, simple and cheap immune-system test for people in the
developing world. It could help HIV/AIDS sufferers in the poorest countries get
appropriate treatment to extend their lives, possibly...
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Location: University of Colorado,440 UCB,Boulder, CO 80309-0440, United States
JILA physicists
are investigating complex and interesting materials, circuits, and devices based
on ultracold atoms instead of electrons. Collectively known as atomtronics, they
have important theoretical advantages over conventional...
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Location: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, United States
University of
California, Riverside Computer Science & Engineering Professors Michalis
Faloutsos and Srikanth Krishnamurthy will be designing battle-hardened wireless
network architecture for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of a...
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Location: Purdue University,915 W. State Street,West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054, United States
Researchers at Purdue University and The Catholic University of America have discovered the structure of an enzyme essential for the operation of "molecular motors" that package DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly....
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Location: NIST-Boulder, MS 104.00, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colo. 80305-3328, United States
Using
a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has
shed new light on one of...
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Location: JILA ,University of Colorado,Boulder CO 80309-0440, United States
A key challenge in developing new nanotechnologies is figuring out a fast, low-noise technique for translating small mechanical
motions into reasonable electronic signals. Solving this problem will one day make it possible to build electronic...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
As the electronics industry continues to churn
out smaller and slimmer portable devices, manufacturers have been challenged to
find new ways to combat the persistent problem of thermal management. New
research published in the March 19 issue...
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Location: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge, MA 02139-4307617.253.7403, United States
If you spotted an anaconda poised to strike,
the signal to pay attention would originate in a different part of your brain
than if you gazed at an anaconda in the zoo, neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report...
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Location: University of Colorado/JILA,CU JILA Tower, room A-225,Boulder, CO 80309, United States
Konrad Lehnert
and his group investigate the basic physics of nanoelectronic devices to verify
the consistency of basic electrical units, including the amp, the volt, and the
ohm. As an initial step they want to better understand why...
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Location: Stem Cell Research Program,University of Wisconsin-Madison ,T680 Waisman Center,1500 Highland Avenue,
Madison, WI 53705-2280 ,Tel: 608-265 8668,FAX: 608-265 4103, United States
For the millions of Americans whose vision is slowly ebbing due to degenerative diseases of the eye, the lowly neural progenitor cell may be riding to the rescue.
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