Location: Cambridge, United States
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of
swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real
thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT physicists have discovered that several high-temperature superconductors
display patchwork quilt-like variations at the atomic scale, a surprising
finding that could help scientists understand a new class of unconventional
materials....
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Location: Cambridge, United States
A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that
harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it
smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. The students hope
to...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of
energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of
20 major manufacturing processes.
Overall, new manufacturing systems are...
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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: 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: McGill University, Canada
McGill University researchers have successfully amplified light with
so-called "colloidal quantum dots," a technology that had been written off by
many as a dead-end.
Over the last 15 years, repeated quantum dot...
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Location: San Diego, United States
Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the
existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold
fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group of scientists, for...
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Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Hydrogen is an attractive alternative to address the depletion of fossil fuels.
A large-scale exploitation of this form of energy requires, however, to resolve
a number of technical problems associated with the production, transport and...
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Location: Princeton, United States
Researchers may be able to "freeze" water into a solid, not by cooling but by confining it to narrow spaces less than one-millionth of a millimeter wide, according to new results from an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers.
It's...
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Location: California, United States
If you could remove the layers of circuitry in your computer and touch the main processor while it's running a video, you would feel its blistering heat, which can exceed 100 °C. Such heat, a natural by-product of shuttling electrons
through...
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
On a global scale, lighting accounts for about 25% of the total consumption of
electricity. In the current context of saving energy and fight against global
warming, the illumination light emitting diodes (LED or LED in English) is a
very...
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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: 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: University of Bonn, Germany
Researchers at the University of Bonn in cooperation with American and Israeli colleagues have identified a molecule that may be responsible for the recurrence of seizures. According to statistics, a German victim is over 20, during his life,...
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Location: MIT, United States
The WiTricity system developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is capable of supplying wireless bulb from 60W up to 2 meters away.
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has managed to operate a 60W bulb by...
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Location: Humburg, Germany
At the time of construction of a new energy and climate strategy for Europe, development of renewable energy is presented as a necessity to switch to a sustainable economy of low carbon. Thus, the EU has set itself the target of satisfying 20% of...
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Location: MIT, United States
In her lab at MIT, chemical-engineering professor Paula Hammond pinches a sliver of what looks like thick Saran wrap between tweezers. Though it appears unremarkable, this polymer membrane can significantly increase the power output of a methanol...
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Location: Georgia, United States
For years, materials scientists have been trying to catch up with geckos. Adhesives that, like gecko feet, are dry, powerful, reusable, and self-cleaning could help robots climb walls or hold together electrical components, even in the harsh...
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