Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.
Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Countless hours are lost in traffic jams every year. Most frustrating of all are those jams with no apparent cause -- no accident, no stalled vehicle, no lanes closed for construction.
Such phantom jams can form when there is a heavy volume of...
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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
A researcher in Pakistan has been working hard to develop new hydro technologies like this hydro power invention. His latest research features the run of river active setup of micro hydro power generation blended with basic principals of...
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Location: California, United States
The aim of this research is to develop devices based upon two dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles, with an optical signatures that are tunable and can measure changes their environment. We have synthesized silver nanoparticles of 3-6 nm...
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Location: California, United States
Abstract:
Holographic filters are used as optical sensors and in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) filtering applications. Temperature dependence is a critical concern for telecommunications. Researcher realize the design of an athermal...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro scale down to the nano requires finding a means to...
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Location: WEST LAFAYETTE, United States
ABSTRACT :
Topics : Quantitative Evaluation of an On-Highway
Trucking Fleet to Compare
#2ULSD and B20 Fuels and Their Impact
on Overall Fleet Performance
A study was performed on 20 Class-8 trucks paired by make, model, mileage, and drive...
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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: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) , Germany
An expert group for high performance calculations was officially established on
20 May 2009 at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching near
Munich. The team, named "High-Level-Support-Team" and supported financially
by...
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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: Marseilles, United States
The life of a cell is not governed only by the biochemistry and genetics. The mechanics also say. A team of physicists from the Institute Fresnel1 in Marseilles, and biologists from the Institute of Developmental Biology of
Marseille-Luminy...
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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: Dresden, Germany
Flat screen television sets. German scientists said Wednesday they had tweaked organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) -- the materials used in
flat-screen TVs, laptop computer screens and mobile phone displays -- to become
flexible,...
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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: Massachusetts, United States
How can the cosmos have the entropy we see today if the temperature was
almost exactly the same everywhere after the Big Bang? The answer may lie in our
"cosmic telephone number".
When it comes to big question, there...
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Location: Virginia, United States
When studying cold atoms, scientists often use magnetic or optical traps to keep
the atoms in place. However, in some cases experimentalists want to study free
atoms, avoiding the effects of a trap. "One way to study free atoms,"...
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Location: Maryland, United States
By analyzing the genetic differences between more than 3 000 people across
Africa and from other parts of the world, researchers have shown how the current
African populations had evolved from 14 aboriginal groups. The result of their...
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