Location: Cambridge, United States
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT
researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria.
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have long
enlisted bacteria and yeast to...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Carbon nanotubes - tiny, rolled-up tubes of graphite - promise to add speed
to electronic circuits and strength to materials like carbon composites, used in
airplanes and racecars. A major problem, however, is that the metals used to
grow...
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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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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: 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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Location: Wisconsin, United States
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a simple, two-step chemical process to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon fuels. The compounds created during the process could also be used to make other industrial chemicals...
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Location: Boston, United States
One problem with solar cells is that they only produce
electricity during the day. A promising way to use the sun's energy more
efficiently is to enlist it to split water into hydrogen gas that can be stored
and then...
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Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), United States
Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size
and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth.
Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth
at the time of...
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Location: American Chemical Society (ACS), United States
Nanotechnology is now available in a store near you. Valued
for it’s antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is
becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages to
washing...
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Location: Arizona State University, United States
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by
Arizona State
University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport
security checkpoints...
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Location: University of the Basque Country, Spain
An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from
the Faculty of Science and Technology at the
University of the...
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Location: Department of Physics, Syracuse University, United States
Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse
University's Department of
Physics may help them identify the sound of a...
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Location: Université de Montréal, Canada
An international research team has discovered that a magnetic field can interact with the electrons in a superconductor in ways never before observed.
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Location: University of British Columbia, Canada
Observations about the early formation of Earth may answer an age-old
question about why the planet’s mantle is missing some of the matter that
should be present, according to UBC
geophysicist John...
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Location: University of Granada, Spain
The research team from the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the
University of Granada (UGR), together with the Department of Radiology at the
Hospital Virgen de...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180, United States
Geochemists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
are challenging commonly held ideas about how gases are expelled from the Earth.
Their theory, which is described in the Sept. 20 issue of the journal...
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Location: The James Franck Institute ,Center for Integrative Science, E2The University of Chicago ,, 929 East 57th. St. Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Tightly packed molecules lend unexpected strength to nanothin sheet of material
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the surprising strength of a sheet of nanoparticles that measures just...
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Location: West Lafayette, IN 47907,Purdue University, United States
A study led by a Purdue University researcher projects a 200 percent to 500 percent increase in the number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean by the end of the 21st century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues. The...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
With a major grant from the Office of Naval
Affairs, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are collaborating with
four other universities to address a hot topic in today’s military: how to keep
modern ships cool in extreme...
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