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.
and flexible electronic devices to harvest solar energysays Luyao Lu a graduate student in chemistry and lead author of a paper in the journal Nature Photonics that describes the result.
This discovery which is like a eesaw circuitwas led by postdoctoral scholar Weizhe Hong in the laboratory of David J. Anderson biology professor at Caltech and an investigator with the Howard hughes medical institute.
and lead authors Chengmin Jiang a graduate student and Avishek Saha a Rice alumnus starts with negatively charging carbon nanotubes by infusing them with potassium a metal and turning them into a kind of salt known as a polyelectrolyte.
and tightly binds the nanotubes together says Martã an assistant professor of chemistry and bioengineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.
and washed outsays Link associate professor of chemistry at Rice and the lead researcher on the PNAS study. he key advancement here was to place the nanorods in an ordered array. lson says the array setup allowed her to tune the pixel s color in two
and Peter Nordlander professor of physics and astronomy. lejandro created a detailed model of the far-field plasmonic interactions between the nanorodsolson says. hat proved very important
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
and we hope for eventually developing controls for the diseasesays coauthor James Maclachlan veterinary professor and viral disease expert.
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 brittlesays Greer a professor of materials science and mechanics. e re showing that in fact they don t have to be
In the latest work Greer and her students used the technique to produce what they call three-dimensional nanolattices that are formed by a repeating nanoscale pattern.
and the linked-together smart gadgets envisioned in the nternet of Things. he next exponential growth in connectivity will be connecting objects together and giving us remote control through the websays Amin Arbabian an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford university who recently demonstrated this ant
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.
and microwave radiation where sensitive light detection is most difficult. e have demonstrated light detection from terahertz to near-infrared frequencies a range about 100 times larger than the visible spectrumsays Professor Michael Fuhrer of the School of Physics
at Monash University. The research could lead to a generation of light detectors that could see below the surface of walls
which is owned by Yale. e re taking a great scientific idea and making it viable in the larger worldsays Tobias Noesekabel Supercool Metals intern and an MBA candidate at the Yale School of management.
#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 doctoral student in electrical engineering. e provide a simple design that includes some 3d printed and off-the-shelf components.
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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It would enable us to assemble new complex substances or materials for specific applicationssays Professor Viola Vogel head of the Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology at ETH Zurich Switzerland.
The platform was developed by Vogel s Phd student Dirk Steuerwald and the prototype was created in the clean room at the IBM Research Centre in Ruschlikon Switzerland.
#Neurons reveal the brain s learning limit Scientists have discovered a fundamental constraint in the brain that may explain why it s easier to learn a skill that s related to an ability you already have.
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 cookies but it would be difficult to make hamburger patties with the existing ingredientssadtler says. e found that the brain works in a similar way during learning.
and Stroke (NINDS) part of the National institutes of health. t helps scientists study the dynamics of brain circuits that may explain the neural basis of learning. he researchers recorded neural activity in the subject s motor cortex
Because the existing brain patterns likely reflect how the neurons are interconnected the results suggest that the connectivity among neurons shapes learning. e wanted to study how the brain changes its activity
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.
Byron M. Yu assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon believes this work demonstrates the utility of BCI for basic scientific studies that will eventually impact people s lives. hese findings could be the basis
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.
Led by bioengineering Associate professor Christina Smolke the Stanford team has spent already a decade genetically engineering yeast cells to reproduce the biochemistry of poppies with the ultimate goal of producing opium-based medicines from start to finish in fermentation vats. e are now very close to replicating the entire
In the new report Smolke and her collaborators Kate Thodey a postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering and Stephanie Galanie a doctoral student in chemistry detail how they added five genes from two different organisms to yeast cells.
Cephalopods like octopus and squid are masters of camouflage but they are also color-blind. Scientists suspect that cephalopods may detect color directly through their skin.
Based on that hypothesis Bob Zheng a graduate student at Rice university set out to design a photonic system that could detect colored light.
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
professor at Stanford university. his is the first time anyone has used non-precious metal catalysts to split water at a voltage that low.
and long durabilitydai says. hen we found out that a nickel-based catalyst is as effective as platinum it came as a complete surprise. tanford graduate student Ming Gong co-lead author of the study made the discovery. ing discovered a nickel-metal
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.
and quantum simulation to ultracold chemistry and tests of the standard model of particle physics. e can start studying chemical reactions that are happening at very near to absolute zerosays Dave Demille a Yale university physics professor
The lead author of the paper is John Barry a former Yale graduate student now at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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
In developing countries keeping track of a baby s vaccine schedule on paper is largely ineffective says Anil Jain professor of computer science
and education recordkeeping. ai Cao postdoctoral researcher and Sunpreet Arora doctoral student are coauthors of the study.
or highly colored materials. o one wants to sit behind colored glasssays Richard Lunt an assistant professor of chemical engineering
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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the Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology-Japan; and the Murata Science Foundation supported the research.
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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.
which cannot be corrected by eyeglasses says Brian Barsky professor of computer science and vision science and affiliate professor of optometry at University of California Berkeley. e now live in a world where displays are ubiquitous
and being able to interact with displays is taken for grantedsays Barsky who is leading this project. eople with higher order aberrations often have irregularities in the shape of the cornea
and Austin Roorda professor of vision science and optometry. his is a very different class of correction
#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
while keeping personnel out of harm s way. arian O. Scully professor physics and astronomy and researchers from Moscow State university contributed to the report.
#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.
(whether untrustworthy or trustworthy) even though subjects could not consciously see any of the faces. hese findings provide evidence that the amygdala's processing of social cues in the absence of awareness may be more extensive than previously understoodobserves Freeman who as lead author conducted the study as a faculty member at Dartmouth
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and is fine enough to visualize blood coursing through single capillaries only a few microns across says senior author Hongjie Dai professor of chemistry at Stanford university.
and skull and penetrate millimeters into the brain allowing us to see vasculature in an almost noninvasive waysays first author Guosong Hong who conducted the research as a graduate student in Dai s lab
Eventually we might be able to use NIR-IIA to learn how each neuron functions inside of the brain. ther coauthors of the study are from Stanford Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical school.
#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
Fan is developing the sensor with Zhaohui Zhong an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and Girish Kulkarni a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering.
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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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The technique allows them to peer through the tissue#in 3d#using standard optical methods such as confocal microscopy. arge volumes of tissue are not optically transparent#you can t see through themsays Viviana Gradinaru (BS 05) an assistant professor of biology
and postdoctoral scholar Jennifer Treweek coauthors on the paper#can quickly deliver the lipid-dissolving hydrogel and chemical solution throughout the body.
and RNA#Gradinaru and her team collaborated with Long Cai an assistant professor of chemistry at Caltech
and plans to offer training sessions to researchers interested in learning how to use PACT
and connect these devices to the internet has kept this from taking off. f Internet of things devices are going to take off we must provide connectivity to the potentially billions of battery-free devices that will be embedded in everyday objectssays Shyam Gollakota an assistant professor of computer science
and engineering at the University of Washington. e now have the ability to enable Wi-fi connectivity for devices
if you re looking for specific patterns you can find it among all the other Wi-fi reflections in an environmentsays coauthor Joshua Smith an associate professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering.
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.
Eric P. Xing professor of machine learning and Bin Zhao a Phd student in the machine learning department presented their work on June 26 at the Computer Vision
Now detailed reanalysis by an international team of researchers including Robert B. Eckhardt professor of developmental genetics
#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.
Yeisoo Yu a research associate professor in Wing s research group at the Arizona Genomics Institute led the sequencing effort.
Wing is also working with Quifa Zhang from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan China to create a set of super-crop science
The first-principle calculations by Rice university theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his coauthors postdoctoral researcher Vasilii Artyukhov and graduate student Mingjie Liu show that stretching carbon chains activates the transition from conductor to insulator
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
which is one of the most powerful tools we have today. he new sensor could have an advantage over current bomb-screening methods says co-lead author Ren-Min Ma an assistant professor of
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.
director of virtual humans research and a professor of computer science. he virtual character delivered on both these fronts and that is
or act as roleplaying partners for training health professionals. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the US ARMY funded the research.
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,
The researchers worked with Charles Yocum, a professor emeritus, to extract what called the photosystem II reaction centers from the leaves.
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 reduced productivity of surviving colonies and both parasites threaten global food security because of reduced pollination services to agriculturesays Nancy Ostiguy associate professor of entomology at Penn State. he extent to which these detriments are attributable
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,
professor of chemistry and director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. uch organic flow batteries will be game-changers for grid electrical energy storage in terms of simplicity, cost, reliability,
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#Vibrating glove could teach you Braille A new wireless computing glove can help people learn to read
and write Braillend they don even have to be paying attention. he process is based on passive haptic learning (PHL),
professor at Georgia Tech. ee learned that people can acquire motor skills through vibrations without devoting active attention to their hands.
In a new study, Starner and Phd student Caitlyn Seim examined how well the gloves work to teach Braille."
But they were surprised the passive learners in the Braille study picked up an additional skill. emarkably
passive learners were able to read and recognize more than 70 percent of the phrase letters.
much better than other carbon fibers, says Mauricio Terrones, professor of physics, chemistry and materials science and engineering,
Penn State and Shinshu University in Japan have applied for a joint patent on the process.
and wavelength, says Andrew Barron, professor of chemistry and of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice university.
Barron and graduate student Yen-Tien Lu, the study lead author, replaced a two-step process that involved metal deposition
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.
Postdoctoral researcher Zhijun Ning Professor Ted Sargent and colleagues modeled and demonstrated a new colloidal quantum dot n-type material that does not bind oxygen
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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and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies says James Tour professor of mechanical engineering and nanoengineering and of computer science at Rice university.
That s a terrible waste of energy. raduate student Chih-Chau Hwang lead author of the paper first tried to combine amines with porous carbon. ut
Using electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes attached to the scalps of 25 student subjects, 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. The team, by monitoring these alpha rhythms,
says Edward Awh, a professor in the department of psychology and Institute of Neuroscience. The new findings show that EEG measures of synchronized neural activity can precisely track the contents of memory at almost the speed of thought,
John T. Serences of the University of California, San diego, also was a coauthor of the study l
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