Location: Cambridge, United States
An accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide
engineers' efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells
where it can be pumped out for storage or transport.
Researchers in MIT's Department of...
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Location: WEST LAFAYETTE, United States
ABSTRACT :
Topics : Quantitative Evaluation of an On-Highway
Trucking Fleet to Compare
#2ULSD and B20 Fuels and Their Impact
on Overall Fleet Performance
A study was performed on 20 Class-8 trucks paired by make, model, mileage, and drive...
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Location: Indianapolis, United States
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar
filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as
conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or blood vessels damaged by...
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Location: West Lafayette, United States
Materials engineers have created a new type of membrane that separates oil from water and, if perfected, might be used for environmental cleanup, water purification and industrial applications.
The new technology would last longer than...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A team led by a
Purdue University
researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had
previously been achieved.
Wen...
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate
three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the
texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or
touch-based,...
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Location: Purdue University, and University of Texas at Austin, United States
The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a
time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the
simple to the complex.
By studying the three-dimensional version of the fungus...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia,
researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the "socioclimatic"
exposure of different countries to future climate change.
The research team from
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Location: Purdue University, United States
Researchers who study severe weather and climate
change joined forces to study the effects of global...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A group of Purdue University researchers
has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as
nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
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Location: University of Washington, United States
Scientists since the early '90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots. Then the plants break certain kinds of pollutants into harmless...
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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: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University,550 Stadium Mall Drive, United States
University researchers have found evidence that tropical cyclones and hurricanes
play an important role in the ocean circulation patterns that transport heat and
maintain the climate of North America and Europe.These findings support a 2001...
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Location: Purdue University * 250 N. University St., Rm. 202 * West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
The fastest of the fastest computers -
supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and
major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of
multicore computing.Despite the promise of...
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Location: 585 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088,, United States
Researchers developing a system that uses
mathematical models and sensors to locate passengers releasing hazardous
materials or pathogens inside airline cabins have shown that the technique can
track a substance to an area the size of a single...
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Location: 225 South University Street,,West Lafayette, IN 47907-2093, United States
Tiny pores within plant cells may hold
promise for green fuels. Researchers have discovered that particles from
cornstalks undergo previously unknown structural changes when processed to
produce ethanol, an insight they said will help establish...
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Location: Purdue University,915 W. State Street,West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054, United States
Researchers at Purdue University and The Catholic University of America have discovered the structure of an enzyme essential for the operation of "molecular motors" that package DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly....
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