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Location: Cambridge, United States
Not far beneath the ocean's surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a
daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a sharp variation in marine currents that traps...
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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
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: University of Texas, Austin, United States
Chemical engineers at The
University of Texas at Austin
have discovered a new way to control the motion of fluid particles through tiny
channels, potentially aiding the...
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Location: Northwestern University, United States
Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack
together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors
and no model is universal.
Researchers at
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue ,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
Try this at home. Pour clean water onto a small plate. Wait for all the ripples to stop. Then mix a small amount of mineral oil with an even smaller amount of detergent. Squeeze a tiny drop of that mixture onto the water and watch in amazement as...
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