#Tiniest particles melt and then turn into Jell-o New york University rightoriginal Studyposted by James Devitt-NYU on October 20 2014the fact that microscopic particles known as polymers
#How energy loss can make lasers more intense Washington University in St louis rightoriginal Studyposted by Tony Fitzpatrick-WUSTL on October 20 2014energy loss in optical systems such as lasers is a chief hindrance
In other words they ve invented a way to win by losing. oo much of something can be really detrimentalsays Sahin Kaya Ozdemir a research scientist at Washington University in St louis. f you pump in more energy to get more laser intensity
and the Austrian Science Fund supported the project which also included researchers from RIKEN in Japan and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria.
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#This fusion reactor could be cheaper than coal University of Washington Posted by Michelle Ma-Washington on October 16 2014fusion energy almost sounds too good to be true#zero greenhouse gas emissions no long-lived radioactive waste a nearly unlimited fuel supply.
University of Washington engineers hope to change that. They have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that
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#This atomically thin material generates electricity Columbia University Georgia Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by John Toon-Georgia Tech on October 16 2014engineers have demonstrated that a single atomic layer of molybdenum disulfide
and power wearable sensors or medical devices or perhaps supply enough energy to charge your cell phone in your pocketsays James Hone professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University
#Light makes mice forget scary memories University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Andy Fell-UC Davis on October 14 2014to test a longstanding idea about how the brain retrieves memories about specific places
and the hippocampus reproduces this pattern of activity during retrieval allowing you to re-experience the eventsays Brian Wiltgen of the University of California Davis
The Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the work. p
The researchers reached data transmission rates of 32 gigabits per second across 2. 5 meters of free space in a basement lab at the University of Southern California.
Additional coauthors come from USC, the University of Glasgow, and Tel aviv University. The Intel Labs University Research Office and the DARPA Inpho (Information in a Photon) Program supported the work n
#New nanothreads are like diamond necklaces Scientists say super-thin iamond nanothreadsould be stronger and stiffer than the strongest nanotubes
and polymers that exist today. rom a fundamental-science point of view our discovery is intriguing because the threads we formed have a structure that has never been seen beforeays study leader John V. Badding a professor of chemistry at Penn State.
#Compressed bits store tons of quantum data University of Toronto Posted by Lindsay Jolivet-U. Toronto on September 29 2014scientists recently demonstrated that it s possible to compress quantum bits or qubits without losing information.
as if you d held onto them all in the first placesays Aephraim M. Steinberg of the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
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#Rare molecule found in space hints at life s origins The discovery of an unusual carbon-based molecule near the galactic center of the Milky way suggests that the complex molecules needed for life may have their origins in interstellar space.
The carbon structure of this molecule known as isopropyl cyanide is branched making it the first interstellar detection of such a molecule says Rob Garrod a senior research associate at the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell University.
Garrod along with lead author Arnaud Belloche and Karl Menten both of the Max Planck Institute for Radio astronomy and Holger MÃ ller of the University of Cologne sought to examine the chemical makeup of Sagittarius
When the device turns color the wearer knows something is awry. ur device is mechanically invisible it is ultrathin and comfortable much like skin itselfsays Yonggang Huang professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University.
and professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. his technology significantly expands the range of functionality in skin-mounted devices beyond that possible with electronics alone. ith its 3600 liquid crystals the photonic device has 3600 temperature
which comprises groups from the universities of Basel Lausanne Geneva and ETH Zurich and representatives from IBM.
and Sciences and the corresponding author of the study. ow we know more about how that works. ay worked with lead author Dawn Nagel a postdoctoral researcher and coauthor Jose Pruneda-Paz an assistant professor at the University of California
and other familiar materials. he field is rather immature it s in the infancy stagesays Luping Yu a professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago.
In addition University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign co-principal investigator John Rogers and colleagues published a proof-of-concept study in PNAS in August about new methods for creating flexible black-and-white polymer displays
and postdoctoral researcher in the School of veterinary medicine at University of California Davis. his discovery has important ramifications for predicting the occurrence of bluetongue in livestock
Other researchers from UC Davis UC Riverside University of Florida Gainesville and the Atlantic Veterinary College Charlottetown Prince edward island Canada contributed to the study.
and working with Professor Ali Niknejad director of Wireless Research center at University of California Berkeley.
#Detector could vastly improve night-vision goggles Monash University right Original Studyposted by Glynis Smalley-Monash on September 8 2014 Researchers have developed a light detector that could revolutionize chemical-sensing equipment and night-vision technology.
at Monash University. The research could lead to a generation of light detectors that could see below the surface of walls
#Sensor device grabs energy in odd places University of Washington Posted by Michelle Ma-Washington on September 4 2014scientists have built a new power harvester that uses natural fluctuations in temperature
which could provide another source of energy for certain applicationssays Shwetak Patel associate professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering at the University of Washington.
and build their own power harvesters. dditional researchers from University of Washington and Southern Methodist University contributed to the project.
The team will present its research at the Association for Computing Machinery s International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing this month in Seattle.
The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing at the University of Washington and the Sloan Foundation supported the work.
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Lead author Patrick T. Sadtler a Ph d. candidate in the University of Pittsburgh department of bioengineering compared the study s findings to cooking. uppose you have flour sugar baking soda eggs salt and milk.
and we wanted to find out what that limit looks like in terms of neuronssays Aaron P. Batista assistant professor of bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh.
what were used in this study to coach patients to generate proper neural activity. he researchers are part of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) a joint program between Carnegie mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Additional researchers from University of Pittsburgh Carnegie mellon and Stanford university and Palo alto Medical Foundation contributed to the work.
The Office of Naval Research the Department of defense s National security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship Program and the Robert A. Welch Foundation supported the research.
Scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole Massachusetts and the University of Maryland Baltimore County collaborated on the project.
questionssays Eric Lyons assistant professor in the School of Plant Sciences at University of Arizona. ow does stored the genetic information in the genome help us understand the functions of the organism
With rapeseed it s the other way around. he National Science Foundation funds the iplant Collaborative of University of Arizona s BIO5 Institute
and consume energy. dditional researchers from Oak ridge National Laboratory Stanford National Taiwan University of Science
and Technology Canadian Light source Inc. and University of Tennessee contributed to the study. Principal funding came from by the Global climate and Energy project the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford and by the US Department of energy.
isolationsays Christian Rabeling assistant professor of biology at the University of Rochester. e now have evidence that speciation can take place within a single colony. n discovering the parasitic Mycocepurus castrator researchers uncovered an example of sympatric speciation
Lead researcher Kaye Morgan from Monash University says the imaging method allows doctors to look at soft tissue structures for example the brain airways
and progress new treatments to the clinic at a much quicker rate a key goal of co-authors Martin Donnelley and David Parsons of the CF Gene therapy group at the Women s and Children s Hospital and the University
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#Algorithms could adjust screens to your vision University of California Berkeley Original Studyposted by Sarah Yang-Berkeley on August 15 2014.
and vision science and affiliate professor of optometry at University of California Berkeley. e now live in a world where displays are ubiquitous
#Copper foam could make extra CO2 useful Brown University rightoriginal Studyposted by Kevin Stacey-Brown on August 14 2014a catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has vastly different electrochemical
and it s the only metal shown to be able to reduce CO2 to useful hydrocarbonssays senior author Tayhas Palmore professor of engineering at Brown University. here was some indication that
#Laser detects distant bombs with 99%accuracy Texas A&m University rightoriginal Studyposted by Ryan Garcia-Texas A&m on August 13 2014new laser technology makes it possible to identify explosives biological
When laser light contacts the molecules present within the powder it experiences a scattering effect that can be analyzed to construct a sort of molecular ingerprintthat reveals its exact chemical makeup says Vladislav Yakovlev professor in the biomedical engineering department at Texas A&m University. s
#Star collision may explain the lonely supernova University of Warwick rightoriginal Studyposted by Tom Frew-Warwick on August 11 2014 A massive collision between white dwarf
and neutron stars may explain the creation of transient supernovae explosions that tend to occur far away from host galaxies. ur paper examines so-called calcium-rich transientssays Joseph Lyman from the University of Warwick. hese are luminous explosions
Researchers from University of Leicester and the Lund University Observatory contributed to the work. Source:
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#We judge trustworthy faces in a snap New york University rightoriginal Studyposted by James Devitt-NYU on August 8 2014.
when we cannot consciously see it. he results are consistent with an extensive body of research suggesting that we form spontaneous judgments of other people that can be largely outside awarenessexplains Jonathan Freeman an assistant professor in New york University's psychology department.
#Wearable vapor sensor can smell diabetes University of Michigan rightoriginal Studyposted by Catharine June-U. Michigan on August 6 2014.
or released through the skin. ach of these diseases has its own biomarkers that the device would be able to sensesays Sherman Fan professor of biomedical engineering at University of Michigan
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if drugs are counterfeit University of Michigan rightoriginal Studyposted by Kate Mcalpine-Michigan on August 6 2014counterfeit drugs make up to one-third of the pharmaceutical drug market in some countries.
While less than 1 percent of the US pharmaceuticals market is believed to be counterfeit it is a huge problem in the developing world. ne challenge in fighting counterfeiting is need the to stay ahead of the counterfeiterssays Nicholas Kotov professor of chemical engineering who led the University
The university is pursuing patent protection for the intellectual property and is seeking commercialization partners to help bring the technology to market.
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and engineering at the University of Washington. e now have the ability to enable Wi-fi connectivity for devices
The University of Washington Commercialization Gap Fund the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Washington Research Foundation the National Science Foundation and the University of Washington supported the work.
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#Algorithm edits boring bits out of Gopro videos Carnegie mellon University Posted by Byron Spice-Carnegie mellon on August 5 2014.
#Butterfly tree decodes evolution of 160,000 species University of Florida rightoriginal Studyposted by Stephenie Livingston-Florida on August 4 2014butterflies are more closely related to small moths than to big ones according to new
and assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ith a tree we can now understand how the majority of butterfly
and director of the University of Hawaii Insect Museum. his study adds to a growing body of knowledge by bringing new techniques to the table
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half the world making it the most important food cropsays Rod A. Wing director of the Arizona Genomic Institute at University of Arizona
and food availability challengessays coauthor Judith Carney professor of geography at University of California Los angeles. Although it is cultivated currently in only a handful of locations around the world African rice is hardier
Much of the evolutionary analysis of the genome was performed by plant sciences doctoral candidate Muhua Wang and by Carlos Machado of the University of Maryland.
Wing is also working with Quifa Zhang from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan China to create a set of super-crop science
The Robert Welch Foundation the US Air force Office of Scientific research and the Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative supported the research
#Crows beat test that stumps little kids University of California Santa barbara right Original Studyposted by Andrea Estrada-UCSB on July 25 2014 In Aesop s fable about the crow
New research conducted by University of California Santa barbara s Corina Logan and collaborators proves the birds intellectual prowess may be more fact than fiction.
-and-effect relationships by choosing options that displace more water. ogan a junior research fellow at UCSB s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind worked with New Caledonian crows in a set of small aviaries in New caledonia run by the University of Auckland
n a previous experiment by Sarah Jelbert and colleagues at the University of Auckland the birds had preferred not the narrow tube.
and colleagues at the University of Cambridge discovered in 2012. It may have taken a couple of tries to figure out how it worked Logan notes
Recently Jelbert and colleagues from the University of Auckland put the New Caledonian crows to the test using the same apparatus the children did.
#Laser device sniffs out tiny traces of explosives University of California Berkeley rightoriginal Studyposted by Sarah Yang-Berkeley on July 24 2014mechanical engineers have found a way to dramatically increase the sensitivity of a light-based plasmon sensor.
The results published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology are much more sensitive than those for other optical sensors says Xiang Zhang professor of mechanical engineering at University of California Berkeley. ptical explosive sensors are very sensitive
physics at Peking University who did the work asâ a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang s lab. omb-sniffing dogs are expensive to train
Ota a former Phd student in Zhang s lab who is now an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tokyo.
The US Air force Office of Scientific research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program helped support this work.
and other mental anguish, says Gale Lucas, a social psychologist at University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies.
Lead researcher Bayden Wood, an associate professor at Monash University, says to reduce mortality and prevent the overuse of antimalarial drugs,
Professor Leann Tilley from the University of Melbourne says the test could make an impact in large-scale screening of malaria parasite carriers who do not present the classic fever-type symptoms associated with the disease. n many countries only
an associate professor of physics and biophysics at the University of Michigan and lead author of a paper published in Nature Chemistry. n artificial systems,
and the University of Michigan Center for Solar and Thermal energy Conversion, as well as the Research Council of Lithuania funded the research R
and pathogens of honey bees. n addition to Ostiguy researchers from Acadia University Forestry and Agrifoods Agency Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Agriculture and Agrifood Canada Dalhousie University and University
professor of physics in the University of Texas at Austin and author of the study. ne ounce of a stable isotope that needs the calutron to separate it can run around $3 million. hat roughly 2, 000 times the price
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#Power plant battery uses tanks of water Scientists have created new, water-based organic batteries that are built long-lasting
professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California and corresponding author of the paper published online in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. ithium ion batteries degrade after around 1,
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#Vibrating glove could teach you Braille A new wireless computing glove can help people learn to read
Penn State and Shinshu University in Japan have applied for a joint patent on the process.
University of Toronto rightoriginal Studyposted by Marit Mitchell-Toronto on June 9 2014those flat glassy solar panels on your neighborâ#roof may be getting a more efficient makeover thanks to a new class of solar-sensitive nanoparticles.
but we need to work toward bringing performance to commercially compelling levels. his research was a collaborationâ with Dalhousie University King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
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a team led by University of Oregon psychology doctoral student David E. Anderson captured synchronized neural activity while they held a simple oriented bar located within a circle in short-term memory.
John T. Serences of the University of California, San diego, also was a coauthor of the study l
#Scientists are first to detect exciton in metals University of Pittsburgh rightoriginal Studyposted by Joe Miksch-Pittsburgh on June 2 2014humans have used reflection of light from a metal mirror on a daily basis for thousands of years
and particles says lead author Hrvoje Petek professor in the physics and astronomy department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Petek s team of experimental and theoretical physicists and chemists from the University of Pittsburgh and Institute of Physics in Zagreb Croatia report on how light
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an engineering professor at the University of Michigan. ur detector is sensitive, compact and works at room temperature,
and deployed to use it. he results are very promising says Peidong Yang a professor of chemistry at the University of California Berkeley who was involved not in the study. y exploring the thermogalvanic effect the researchers were able to convert low-grade heat to electricity with decent efficiencyhe says. his is a clever idea
Vanderbilt University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Salisbury-VU on May 22 2014imagine a future in which plugs and external power sources no longer limit our electrical gadgets.
while they are subject to realistic static loads and dynamic forces such as vibrations or impactssays Cary Pint assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University.
Jaime C. Grunlan and Benjamin A. Wilhite of Texas A&m University report the findings in Advanced Materials.
HICANN CHIP FOR BRAIN SIMULATORS Heidelberg University Brainscales project has the ambitious goal of developing analog chips to mimic the behaviors of neurons and synapses.
#Exoplanet weather forecast calls for clouds University of Chicago rightoriginal Studyposted by Steve Koppes-Chicago on December 31 2013a team of scientists report they have characterized definitively the atmosphere of a super-Earth class
and Jacob Bean of the University of Chicago has detected clear evidence of clouds in the atmosphere of GJ 1214b from data collected with the Hubble space telescope.
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#This gene helps some of us never forget a face Emory University rightoriginal Studyposted by Lisa Newbern-Emory on December 24 2013the oxytocin receptor a gene known to influence mother-infant bonding also plays a role in the ability to remember faces.
According to study author Larry Young of the department of psychiatry at Emory University this is the first study to demonstrate that variation in the oxytocin receptor gene influences face recognition skills.
and University of Tampere in Finland contributed to the study which was funded by grants from the US National institute of mental health and the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs as well as the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation and National Alliance for Autism Research.
computers go for good enough Purdue University rightoriginal Studyposted by Emil Venere-Purdue on December 23 2013computers capable of pproximate computingcould potentially double efficiency
a fundamental shift in the nature of computing workloads and the need for new sources of efficiencysays Anand Raghunathan a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. omputers were designed first to be precise calculators that solved
Researchers presented their findings during the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture earlier this month at the University of California Davis. The inability to perform to the required level of accuracy is inherently inefficient
#DNA motor uses arms to walk across a nanotube Purdue University rightoriginal Studyposted by Emil Venere-Purdue on December 19 2013engineers made a motor out of DNA
The design was inspired by natural biological motors that have evolved to perform specific tasks critical to the function of cells says Jong Hyun Choi a Purdue University assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
which is comparable to steel says Pablo D. Zavattieri a Purdue University assistant professor of civil engineering. his is a material that is showing really amazing propertieshe says. t is abundant renewable and produced as waste in the paper industry. indings
Kiran and Robert Maccurdy graduate students in mechanical engineering at Cornell University led the project. A loudspeaker is a relatively simple object Kiran adds:
#Big bang swirls hint at universe s birth Mcgill University University of Chicago rightoriginal Studyposted by Steve Koppes-Chicago on December 17 2013a subtle distortion in the oldest
is a major milestone a technical achievement that indicates exciting physics to comesays John Carlstrom distinguished service professor in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
lead author Duncan Hanson a postdoctoral scientist at Mcgill University. B modes from inflation are caused by gravitational waves.
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when a massive star explodedsays Haley Gomez of Cardiff University s School of Physics and Astronomy. ot only is it very young in astronomical terms
#Craters within crater hint at moonâ#diversity Brown University right Original Studyposted by Kevin Stacey-Brown on December 9 2013 Small craters on the moon that are within one of the largest
and that was taken as evidence that everything'#the same across the basinsays Dan Moriarty a graduate student at Brown University. e looked in a little more detail
Carle Pieters professor of geological sciences at Brown and Peter Isaacson from the University of Hawaii were also authors of the paper.
#Laser light creates hologram the width of a hair Purdue University rightoriginal Studyposted by Emil Venere-Purdue on December 9 2013researchers have created tiny holograms using a etasurfacecapable of the ultra-efficient control of light.
and telecommunications says Alexander Kildishev associate research professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
Formerly of Purdue Xingjie Ni a postdoctoral researcher at University of California Berkeley is co-author of the paper with Kildishev and Shalaev.
and the Office of Naval Research funded the work through their Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives. Source:
or mechanical structures that allow researchers to conduct their work on the micro/nanoscopic levelsays Jae Kwon associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri. il-based materials or low-surface tension liquids
#Search tool finds pics of you based on tag relationships University of Toronto Posted by Michael Kennedy-Toronto on December 2 2013a new algorithm could profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook
and Computer engineering at the University of Toronto who helped develop the algorithm. The tool called relational social image search achieves high reliability without using computationally intensive objector facial recognition software. f you want to search a trillion photos normally that takes at least a trillion operations.
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