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Location: California, United States
Scientists have enlisted the most intrepid of bird watchers in an attempt to prove that a majestic woodpecker, believed extinct for more than 60 years, still exists.
The sentry is sharp-eyed robot that has been mounted to a power line high above...
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Location: Chittagong, Bangladesh
In 1987, Ronald Reagan declared that the US was about to enter an incredible new era of technology.
Levitating high-speed trains, super-efficient power generators and ultra-powerful supercomputers would become commonplace thanks to a new breed...
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Location: Cornell Chronicle • 312 College Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850 • (607) 255-4206, United States
The Altair 8800, introduced in the early 1970s, was the first computer you could build at home from a kit. It was crude, didn't do much, but many historians would say that it launched the desktop computer revolution.
Hod Lipson, Cornell...
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Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) cell-stretcher that can measure the mechanical properties of a living cell, such as its ability to stick to a surface....
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Location: The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester,
M13 9PL,, United Kingdom
Professor Andre Geim and Dr Kostya Novoselov from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, reveal details of transistors that are only one atom thick and less than 50 atoms wide, in the March issue of Nature Materials....
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180,, United States
A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world’s first material that reflects virtually no light. Reporting in the March issue of Nature Photonics, they describe an optical coating made from the material that...
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Location: Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, United States
A new analysis led by an MIT scientist describes a mechanism for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and injecting the gas into the ground, where it would be trapped naturally as tiny bubbles and safely stored in briny porous...
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Location: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Washington Street,Blacksburg, VA 24061-0447 &
The National Science Foundation4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230, United States
An international group of scientists has expanded the universal language for the genes of both disease-causing and beneficial microbes and their hosts. This expanded "lingua franca," called The Gene Ontology (GO), gives researchers a common set of...
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Location: EMBL Monterotondo,
Adriano Buzzati-Traverso Campus, Via Ramarini 32, 00016 Monterotondo, Italy
It's a massive understatement to say that stem cells have picky tastes. These choosy micrometer-sized underpinnings of life have long maintained an air of mystery about their predilections, initially refusing to rest on anything but a comfortable...
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Location: University of Illinois,Urbana, IL 61801, United States
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simple, disposable sensor for detecting hazardous uranium ions, with sensitivity that rivals the performance of much more sophisticated laboratory instruments....
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Location: 75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100 ,
Atlanta, Georgia 30308 , United States
Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed...
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Location: McCullough Building 342
476 Lomita MallStanford University,Stanford, CA 94305-4045,, United States
Photoelectron spectroscopy is a general term which refers to all techniques based on the photoelectric effect originally observed by Hertz. This was later explained as a manifestation of the quantum nature of light by Einstein, who recognized...
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Location: Troy, NY 12180, United States
National Cancer Institute and the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) at Rensselaer, which is funded by the National Science Foundation has developed Machine Learning , A new computer-based technique could eliminate hours...
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Location: University of Bridgeport,Bridgeport, Connecticut 06601,, United States
The P stands for proportional control, I for integral control and D for derivative control. This is also what is called a three term controller.
The basic function of a controller is to execute an algorithm (electronic controller) based on the...
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Location:
Katrien Marent Corporate Communication Manager
IMEC, Kapeldreef 75
Tel +32 16 28 18 80 Fax +32 16 28 16 37
Email: Katrien.Marent@imec.be, Belgium
IMEC’s 90nm CMOS digital UWB transmitter is the first ever published IEEE
802.15.4a standard-compliant transmitter and outperforms state-of-the-art
low-power narrowband transmitter implementations. The transmitter covers all the
frequency...
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Location: School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology270 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new protoype engine that allows
satellites to take off with less fuel, opening the door for deep space missions,
lower launch costs and more payload in orbit.
The efficient satellite engine...
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Location:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Avenue • Livermore, CA 94550, United States
Scientists from the Chemistry, Materials and Life Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from Dubna, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Russia , have discovered the newest...
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Location: LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy.,
202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Dr.,
Baton Rouge, LA .,
70803-4001 • (225) 578-2261 • Fax-(225) 578-5855, United States
"Dark energy" which is still enigma for the scientists that seems to be quickening the expansion of the universe but, according to LSU Physics and Astronomy Associate Professor Bradley Schaefer, one thing appears to be true: Dark Energy is not...
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Location: Louisiana State University (LSU) ,Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
The UCoMS project, sponsored by the Department of Energy and the Louisiana Board of Regents, is researching and developing new Grid computing and sensor network technologies for the management of energy resources. Three Louisiana Universities are...
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Location: Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
Contemporary network size is growing at exponential rate and the future network designs are characterized by high-speed to carry a wide variety of network services and traffic types. These demands create new challenges for network designers...
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