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Location: california, United States
Abstract :
Detecting trace amounts of analytes in aqueous systems is important for health diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and national security applications. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are ideal components for both the sensor...
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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: Cambridge, United States
For the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation
of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals
-- in this case, fish.
The work, conducted using a novel imaging technique,...
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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: 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: Washington University, St. Louis, United States
Jupiter’s moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is
bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered
ocean and determine its potential for harboring life.
“We’ve learned a lot about...
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Location: UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, United States
We are ocean biologists and biogeochemists who use
NASA satellite data to study
the ocean's biosphere, its changes in time and how it is affected by and
responds to humankind's activities. Our...
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Location: 216 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0216, United States
The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and
levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low, scientists said last
night. Experts said they were "stunned" by the loss of ice, with an area almost
twice...
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Location: Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208-3100 Phone: (847) 491-5635 | Fax: (847) 491-4928, United States
Geckos are remarkable in their ability to scurry up vertical surfaces and even move along upside down. Their feet stick but only temporarily, coming off of surfaces again and again like a sticky note. But put those feet underwater, and their...
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Location: rue de Navacelles,34090 Montpellier ,CNRS, France
The
study of a therapeutic peptide, Lanreotide (1), by researchers of the CNRS and
University of Rennes made it possible to discover that this peptide had the
capacity to be used as scaffolding with the spontaneous formation of silica...
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Location: Biorobotics Laboratory,Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Washington,University of Washington,Seattle, WA 98195-2500, United States
This week Raven, the mobile
surgical robot
developed by the University of...
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Location: Institute for Geophysics; J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196; 10100 Burnet Road (R2200); Austin TX 78758-4445
Phone: (512) 471-6156; FAX: (512) 471-8844, United States
Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole, Cenote
Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX,
designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions
and potentially...
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Location: Sydney, Australia
Dynamic modelling of gearbox vibration
To improve the current generation of diagnostic techniques, many researchers are actively developing advanced dynamic models of gear-case...
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