Location: California, United States
Abstract:
The ability to pattern nanostructures has important
applications in medical diagnosis,(1,
2) sensing,
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Much of our knowledge about molecular structure and reactivity is based on
interpreting how molecules interact with light. In particular, time-resolved
pump-probe studies where a first “pump” laser pulse initiates a dynamical
event,...
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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: Tokyo, Japan
Einstein introduced general relativity in the early 20th century, and since
then it has been proven to be an accurate description of gravity beyond the
regime of validity of Newtonian gravitation. Since then, people have been
asking...
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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
The ubiquitous barcodes found on product packaging provide information to the
scanner at the checkout counter, but that's about all they do. Now, researchers
at the Media Lab have come up with a new kind of very tiny barcode that could...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Devices can help children with
brain injuries learn to grasp and manipulate objects
Over the past few years, MIT engineers have successfully tested robotic
devices to help stroke patients learn to control their arms and...
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Location: California, United States
The aim of this research is to develop devices based upon two dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles, with an optical signatures that are tunable and can measure changes their environment. We have synthesized silver nanoparticles of 3-6 nm...
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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: Florida, United States
Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) have developed a wireless network that evaluates walking patterns in an attempt to detect early signs of dementia.
Currently, doctors ask patients to answer a series of questions...
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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: London, United Kingdom
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human.
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Location: Salt Lake City, United States
Researcher : Christoph Boehme & John Lupton
Physicists at the University of Utah just make a board spintronics based on a
plastic semiconductor similar to that used in organic light emitting diodes
(Oled). A first that...
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Location: University of Florida, United States
Cymbals don’t clash of their own accord – in our world,
anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed
almost infinitesimally close together, spontaneously attract each other.
What...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States
Researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of
nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
Researchers at McGill
University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several
countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of
general...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication
between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves
in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be useful probes
of...
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Location: Dartmouth College, United States
Two
Dartmouth researchers have determined that the element chromium displays
electrical properties of magnets in surprising ways. This finding can be used in
the...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a
drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental
state of matter created by scientists at the
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