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: Florida, United States
Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the...
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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: Paris, France
A NPC has to be able to select accurate actions, given its current state and the current state of the game, to interact with its environment and other players. In the Kodabot project, rather than specifying the behavior of a NPC manually, we use...
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Location: Calgiary, United States
Ice-like “cages” of gas trapped underground may offer a safe and efficient way to reduce global warming.
Two U of C researchers are investigating the potential for permanently storing carbon dioxide in geological reservoirs, by...
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Location: Bochum, Germany
An international team of researchers around Prof.. Attila Bilgic of the Ruhr University-Bochum (RUB), will attempt to use the so-called multi solutions on mobile phones. The research project entitled "eMuCo", will have a total budget of 4.6...
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Location: Harvard, United States
From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered...
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Location: Paris, France
Today, olefins, which are then converted into polyolefins, the raw material for plastics, are produced from their derivatives, naphtha or ethane. Or to diversify the sources of raw material for plastic products, Total has just opened a new way to...
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Location: Canakkale, Turkey
Hydrogels are compounds that have a particular structure gives them unique characteristics: they can absorb quantities of water very important, are specific to certain properties of solids and liquids other measures. In particular, the...
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Location: Paris, France
Pegasus, competitiveness cluster dedicated to develop the economic activity of the aerospace industry of the Provence-Alpes-Cote deAzur (PACA), has looked upon its creation in the "airship". It has also imposed among the most pressing issues to...
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Location: California, United States
A NASA-developed, environmentally friendly anti-icing fluid that can make railroad and commuter travel safer and more reliable during snowy conditions is now available for commercial
Under license from NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett...
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Location: Paris, France
Located in the range of infrared remote, between the mid-infrared and microwave, the waves so-called "terahertz" have the properties of both pass through the skin and clothing as paper, wood, cardboard or plastic. All of which mean that many...
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Location: Orenburg, Russian Federation
Dartmouth engineering professor and entrepreneur Victor Petrenko—along with his colleagues at Dartmouth and at Ice Engineering LLC in Lebanon, N.H.—have invented a way to cheaply and effectively keep ice off power lines.
The new...
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Location: New England, Canada
An international research team involving scientists from McGill University Health Center and McGill University, discovered a new protein to the onset of cardiovascular disease. Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the results show...
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: Yale University, United States
Access to clean water is severely limited in many parts of the world, and while desalination plants can separate freshwater from sea and brackish water, they typically require large amounts of electricity or heat to do so. This has prevented...
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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: CNRS, France
One of the main topics of developmental biology is to understand how gene regulatory networks are linked to the form of multicellular beings. While the genes indirectly control the geometry of the tissue by affecting chemical and mechanical...
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Location: New York, United States
Orolia group company, SpectraTime today confirms its position as a strategic supplier in the market for atomic clocks on board and as the world leader in technologies clocks to satellite navigation. Less than a month after winning a program in the...
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Location: James Cook University, Australia
You can tell when a fish has changed sex just by looking at its ears.
At least, Australian marine biologists Stefan Walker and Mark McCormick can - just having pioneered a new breakthrough for studying the behavior and productivity of fish...
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