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Location: Cambridge, United States
Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a
semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed by people safely away from the
dangers of the...
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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: Malibu, CA, United States
A pair of research groups, working independently, report making graphene-based transistors that work at the highest frequencies reported to date. The new transistors are a promising first step toward ultrahigh radio-frequency (RF) transistors,...
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Location: Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, United States
For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of
science fiction — in last summer's blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys
use quantum computing to break into the
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can detect nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) in tiny samples of fluids flowing through a...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
As computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections
between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless
card. And as the integrated circuits become more advanced, maximizing their...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Engineers at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology are developing a tiny sensor that could be used to
detect minute quantities of hazardous gases, including toxic industrial
chemicals and...
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Location: Children's Hospital Boston, United States
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new "nanobiotechnology" that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which...
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University
of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical
environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky...
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Location: Rice University, United States
What is the fundamental creative force behind life on Earth" It's a
question that has vexed mankind for millennia, and thanks to theory and almost a
year's worth of number-crunching on a supercomputer,
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, United States
It’s not every day an engineering professor gets to rub elbows with top
military brass, watch from a few meters away as three F-15 fighter jets refuel
in mid air, and stroll through a “petting zoo” of Cold War era Soviet machines
of war. ...
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Location: University of California, San Diego - Department of Physics, United States
Two years after reporting the first tantalizing hints that matter might be
able to bind with antimatter, researchers in California have nailed convincing
evidence for the pairing.
David Cassidy and Allen Mills at the University of...
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Location: Department of Chemistry,55 North Eagleville Road,, United States
By using lasers to etch data onto microbial proteins, researchers
at the University of Connecticut may have demonstrated a way to produce
rewritable holographic memory. Holographic memory stores data in three
dimensions instead of two...
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Location: Electrical & Computer Engineering,University of California,Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, United States
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have announced they have built the world's
first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser, a significant step toward combining
lasers and other key optical components with the existing electronic
capabilities in...
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Location: Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences,Maxwell Dworkin 149, United States
It weighs only 60 Milligramm, resembles its brothers in free nature and could a revolution in the monitoring technology cause: Scientists around Robert Wood of the Harvard MicroRobotics team developed a robot fly, which can actually take off. The...
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Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
Particles of light
serving as “quantum keys”—the latest in encryption technology—have been
sent over a record-setting 200-kilometer fiber-optic link by researchers from
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NTT Corp. in...
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Location: Biorobotics Laboratory,Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Washington,University of Washington,Seattle, WA 98195-2500, United States
This week Raven, the mobile
surgical robot
developed by the University of...
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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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