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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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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: Montreal, Canada
We knew that reducing the intake of calories, for example because of the
reduction of the amount sugar ingested, could prolong life. According to a new
study by researchers at the University of Montreal whose results are published
in the...
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Location: NIST, United States
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated their ability to measure relatively low levels of stress or strain in regions of a semiconductor device as small as 10 nanometers across. Their recent...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
The Voyager 2 spacecraft's Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT
in the 1970s, has turned up surprising revelations about the boundary zone that
marks the edge of the sun's influence in...
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Location: Oregon Health & Science University, United States
Children who possess a gene known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease
already show signs of reduced cognitive function, an Oregon
Health & Science University study has found. ...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
Severely restricting calories leads to a longer life, scientists have proved.
New research now has shown for the first time that such a diet also can
maintain physical fitness into advanced age, slowing the seemingly inevitable...
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