Scientists at the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have devised an ultra-thin invisibility"skin"cloak that can conform to the shape
a George Holmes University Professor of physics. ou don have to do this on the fly. aving a way to know what youe inputting into an unknown situation is important.
Collaborators on the project are from the University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Princeton university, and Johns hopkins university.
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering) In a new study, published today in the journal Advanced Functional Materials("3d Printed Anatomical Nerve Regeneration Pathways),
"said University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor Michael Mcalpine, the study's lead researcher.""Someday we hope that we could have a 3d scanner
#Darwin on a chip Researchers of the MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology and the CTIT Institute for ICT Research at the University of Twente in The netherlands have demonstrated working electronic circuits that have been produced in a radically new way,
Moving away from designed circuits The approach of the researchers at the University of Twente is based on methods that resemble those found in Nature.
The system, designed by by scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, has the potential to fine-tune temperature distribution
said Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University of Houston and principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity,
#Permanent data storage with light The first all-optical permanent on-chip memory has been developed by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT) and the universities of Münster, Oxford, and Exeter.
the University of Münster, Oxford university, and Exeter University have developed now the first all-optical, nonvolatile on-chip memory. ptical bits can be written at frequencies of up to a gigahertz.
This allows for extremely quick data storage by our all-photonic memory, Professor Wolfram Pernice explains.
and recently moved to the University of Münster. he memory is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
#Pushing the limits of lensless imaging Using ultrafast beams of extreme ultraviolet light streaming at a 100,000 times a second, researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
"explained Michael Zürch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany and lead researcher.""The computer emulates the lens."
Zürch and a team of researchers from Jena University used a special, custom-built ultrafast laser that fires extreme ultraviolet photons a hundred times faster than conventional table-top machines.
"Valentyn Volkov is the co-lead author, a visiting professor from the University of Southern Denmark.
"Professor David Wright, from the University of Exeters Engineering department said: With our prototype we have, for the first time,
Professor Wolfram Pernice, from the Institute of Physics at Mnster University and who led the work said:
Ph d.,the Benjamin Mayhugh Associate professor of Mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota. The work is described in the August 12, 2015 issue of Nano Letters("3d Printed Programmable Release Capsules".
#Ultrathin graphene oxide lens could revolutionise next-gen devices Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, collaborating with Monash University,
have developed an ultrathin, flat, ultra-lightweight graphene oxide optical lens with unprecedented flexibility. The ultrathin lens enables potential applications in on-chip nanophotonics
inexpensive tests using DNA Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal."
"said Sahar Mashid, postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study."
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
"An international team, formed by scientists at the Italian Institute of technology (Italy), the University Jaume I (Spain),
the IBM research lab Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) demonstrated a radically new approach to manipulate the light emission of quantum dots.
#Flexible microfluidic tactile sensor for robotics, electronics and healthcare applications A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of engineering has developed a wearable liquid-based microfluidic tactile
#Ultrafast lasers offer 3-D micropatterning of biocompatible hydrogels Tufts University biomedical engineers are using low energy,
Schmidt's lab at UC Santa cruz worked with researchers at Brigham Young University and UC Berkeley to develop the system.
according to research that has primarily been conducted at the University of Gothenburg. Nuclear fusion is a process
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Iceland has been to study a new type of nuclear fusion process.
"says Leif Holmlid, Professor Emeritus at the University of Gothenburg. No radiation The new fusion process can take place in relatively small laser-fired fusion reactors fuelled by heavy hydrogen (deuterium.
#A new single-molecule tool to observe enzymes at work A team of scientists at the University of Washington
#Tattoo-like electronic health patches may now be cheaper and easier to make A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a method for producing inexpensive and high-performing wearable patches
#Highest efficiency hydrogen production under natural sunlight Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Miyazaki University have produced hydrogen under natural sunlight at an energy conversion efficiency of 24.4,
The University of Tokyo) and Associate professor Kensuke Nishioka (Miyazaki University) used concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules,
#Brightness-equalized quantum dots improve biological imaging Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have introduced a new class of light-emitting quantum dots (QDS) with tunable and equalized fluorescence brightness
Alfred Leitenstorfer at the University of Konstanz (Germany) has succeeded in doing just that. They demonstrated a first direct observation of the so-called vacuum fluctuations by using short light pulses
The research team at the University of Konstanz developed these technologies in-house and also an exact description of the results based on quantum field theory.
Now researchers at the University of Rochester have demonstrated a key achievement in shrinking photonic devices below the diffraction limit--a necessary step on the road to making photonic circuits competitive with today's technology.
"said Kenneth Goodfellow, a graduate student in the laboratory of the Quantum Optoelectronics and Optical Metrology Group, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, New york."
#Developing a nanoscale'clutch'A model microscopic system to demonstrate the transmission of torque in the presence of thermal fluctuations-necessary for the creation of a tiny'clutch'operating at the nanoscale-has been assembled at the University of Bristol as part of an international collaboration (Nature
Dr Paddy Royall of the University of Bristol said:""This device looks a lot like a washing machine,
In addition to the experiments performed at the University of Bristol, physicists at the University of Düsseldorf have developed model computer simulations to further investigate torque coupling at the nanoscale.
This enables the measurement of nanomachine efficiency, which is small but can be optimised through careful control of the system parameters.
Professor Hartmut Loewen of the University of Düsseldorf d
#A quantum logic gate in silicon built for the for the first time (w/video) The significant advance, by a team at the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature("A two-qubit logic gate in silicon"."
""What we have is a game changer, "said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW."
But the UNSW team-working with Professor Kohei M. Itoh of Japan's Keio University-has done just that for the first time.
researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new flame retardant to replace commercial additives that are often toxic
Meni Wanunu, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University, says the group work with graphene membranes may significantly improve on commercial membranes used for water purification,
At the University of Hamburg these exotic magnetic structures were recently found to exist in ultrathin magnetic layers and multilayers,
Now researchers from the University of Hamburg and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel have demonstrated that skyrmions can be detected much more easily because of a drastic change of the electrical resistance in these magnetic whirls("Electrical detection of magnetic skyrmions by tunnelling non-collinear magnetoresistance".
Employing a scanning tunneling microscope researchers of the University of Hamburg were now able to demonstrate that the resistance changes also
In collaboration with theoretical physicists from the University of Kiel the researchers were able to identify the origin of the resistance change in the magnetic whirl:
Stefan Heinze from the University of Kiel. When the electrons are travelling through a magnetic whirl,
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and simulation and is the result of an international cooperation involving researchers from the Institute of Structural biology (ISB, CEA/CNRS/Joseph Fourier University) in Grenoble, France, Purdue University, USA,
the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Oregon State university."
Francesco Ricci, of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, senior co-author of the study.""This DNA nanomachine can be modified in fact custom
Valle-Blisle of the University of Montreal, the other senior co-author of the paper.""It is rapid,
Kevin Plaxco of the University of California, Santa barbara.""The materials needed for one assay cost about 15 cents,
Ricci at the University of Rome and first-author of the paper.""For example, we could adapt our platform
Kendra Frederick, a former Whitehead postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern,
Atif Shamim and Swanlund Chair Professor John Rogers of University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, reports their findings in the October 6, 2015 online edition of Advanced Functional Materials
Alexander Rohrbach conducts research at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and is an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg g
and electrons to read data Scientists from Kiel University and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
""Six plus seven makes three-plus one carried over",calculated Professor Hermann Kohlstedt, Head of the Nanoelectronic group at Kiel University.
"The researchers, from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk University in the Republic of korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA.
a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal (Nature Communications,"Direct oriented growth of armchair graphene nanoribbons on germanium").
Scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical center designed a new delivery system for these drugs that,
when coupled with a drug developed at the University of Rochester School of medicine and Dentistry, rid immune cells of HIV and kept the virus in check for long periods.
#Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces A Tufts University chemist has discovered a way to select specific surfaces of single-crystal ice for study,
"said Mary jane Shultz, Ph d.,professor of chemistry in the School of arts and Sciences at Tufts University."
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.
Scientists and engineers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), headquartered at the University of New south wales (UNSW),
Now, the CQC2T collaboration, involving theoretical and experimental researchers from the University of Melbourne and UNSW, has designed such a device.
"says University of Melbourne Professor Lloyd Hollenberg, Deputy Director of the CQC2T who led the work with colleague Dr Charles Hill."
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
The electron microscope images, created by scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory with partners from Stony Brook University and Rockefeller University,
an essential function for every living cell,"said Huilin Li, a biologist with a joint appointment at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University."
and provided by Roxana Georgescu in Michael O'Donnell's research group at Rockefeller University.
"several University of Delaware researchers show how a new peptide-based hydrogel could one day make that reconnection process easier to perform
Konstantin Novoselov's lab at the University of Manchester UK, studied the transport mechanism of the sensors.
a team of bioengineers at Rice university and surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels that points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation.
#Scientists discover the gene that will open the door for space-based food production Queensland University of Technology (QUT) scientists have discovered the gene that will open the door for space-based food production.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved the sensitivity of these materials,
and prove to be an important practice to help reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer, Parkinson and other neurological diseases, according to researchers at Stony Brook University.
Stony Brook University researchers Hedok Lee, Phd, Helene Benveniste, MD, Phd, and colleagues, discovered that a lateral sleeping position is the best position to most efficiently remove waste from the brain.
Dr. Benveniste, Principal investigator and a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Radiology at Stony Brook University School of medicine, has used dynamic contrast MRI for several years to examine the glymphatic pathway in rodent models.
Their colleagues at the University of Rochester including Lulu Xie, Rashid Deane and Maiken Nedergaard, Phd,
one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
and a Chinese-language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
says David Temperley, a professor at the University of Rochester, who along with his Rochester colleague Daniel Gildea has authored co a study comparing dependency length in English
including Lohitash Karumbaiah of the University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center, has developed a brain-friendly extracellular matrix environment of neuronal cells that contain very little foreign material.
an assistant professor of animal and dairy science in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental sciences. his is proof of concept that extracellular matrix can be used to ensheathe a functioning electrode without the use of any other foreign
and Mark Allen of the University of Pennsylvania, found that the extracellular matrix derived electrodes adapted to the mechanical properties of brain tissue
and is chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology and Emory University,
Charlene Betourney University of Georgiaimage Source: The image is credited to the researchersoriginal Research: Full open access research for mall-Molecule-Driven Direct Reprogramming of Mouse Fibroblasts into Functional Neuronsby Xiang Li, Xiaohan Zuo, Junzhan Jing, Yantao Ma,
Yinsheng Wang, a principal investigator in the Department of chemistry at the University of California at Riverside who was involved not in the research,
explains the study lead author, William Eric Sponsel, MD, of the University of Texas at San antonio, Department of Biomedical engineering.
explained letter co-author Paul Artes, Phd, of Plymouth University, Department of Eye and Visual Sciences.
Along with co-author Jonathan Denniss, Phd, University of Nottingham, Visual Neuroscience Group, their letter analyzed a new cohort of glaucoma patients in which hat essentially
Co-author Ted Maddess, Phd, of the Australian National University, Center of Excellence in Vision Science, explains that these patterns mimic structures found at the very back of the brain, known as ocular dominance columns.
#Giving Paralyzed People a Voice A new device which transforms paralysis victimsbreath into words believed to be the first invention of its kind has been developed by academics from Loughborough University.
A new device which transforms paralysis victimsbreath into words believed to be the first invention of its kind has been developed by academics from Loughborough University. hen it comes to teaching our invention to recognise words and phrases,
#Oxytocin Delivering Nasal Device to Treat Mental illness Researchers at the University of Oslo have tested a new device for delivering hormone treatments for mental illness through the nose.
causing cells to experience severe power failures, according to new work by researchers at Temple University School of medicine.
and the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of medicine (TUSM), shows that the protein, spastic paraplegia 7 (SPG7), is the central component of the so-called permeability transition pore (PTP),
By identifying a key signaling defect within a specific membrane structure in all cells, University of California,
Now a group of researchers at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) is putting liquid crystals to work in a completely unexpected realm:
as well as Aslin Izmitli-Apik and Nicholas Abbott of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. They relied crucially on theoretical molecular models,
and University of Washington researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student, a breakthrough in AI research.
according to Carnegie mellon University researchers who have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber optic sensors.
The researchers/Carnegie mellon University. Each of the fingers on the robotic hand mimic the skeletal structure of a human finger, with a fingertip,
working with mechanical engineering students Celeste To from CMU and Tess Lee Hellebrekers from the University of Texas, invented a highly stretchable and flexible optical sensor, using a combination of commercially available silicone rubbers.
and Maria Carmen Polanco, of the University of Murcia, in Murcia, Spain. The researchers used a combination of X-ray crystallography techniques
says Rowena Matthews, a professor emerita of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan, who has read the paper.
In newly reported research that could help provide answers, scientists at Tufts University, in collaboration with the University of Florida, have developed a novel approach that uses artificial intelligence to illuminate cellular processes
and suggest possible targets to correct aberrations. The findings, published Oct 6 in Science Signaling online in advance of print, are believed to mark the first time artificial intelligence has been used to discover a molecular model that explains why some groups of cells deviate from normal development during embryogenesis,
In addition to Levin and Lobikin, paper authors were Douglas J. Blackiston and Elizabeth Tkachenko of the Department of biology and Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology, Tufts University;
Daniel Lobo, formerly of the Levin laboratory and now at the University of Maryland in Baltimore;
and Christopher J. Martyniuk of the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology and Department of Physiological Sciences, UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida.
Computation used a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics and the Campus Champion Allocation for Tufts University TG-TRA 130003 at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment,
and progression of disease, says senior author Katerina Akassoglou, Phd, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and professor of neurology at the University of California,
and brain macrophages, says Scott Zamvil, MD, Phd, a professor of neurology at the University of California,
Researchers from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine are nearing development of a blood test that can accurately detect the presence of Alzheimer disease,
DO, assistant professor of family medicine at Rowan University. can think of a single patient who wouldn take steps to prevent the progression of Alzheimer
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have shown successfully neuroprotection in a Parkinson mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
#Step Closer to Prosthetic Limbs That Recreate Sense of touch A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.
Associate professor in the Department of Organismal biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study. ow we understand the nuts and bolts of stimulation,
private companies and academic institutions, including the Johns hopkins university Applied Physics laboratory and the University of Pittsburgh. Bensmaia and his colleagues at UCHICAGO are working specifically on the sensory aspects of these limbs.
Consulting with professors from the College of Veterinary medicine in Cornell University, the company established the direction a dog wags its tail directly reflected its mood.
a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.
Max Pfeiffer of the University of Hannover was the driver. His project directs electrical currentmovie Camera into the students'sartorius, the longest muscle in the human body,
Evan Peck of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania says Pfeiffer's system will stop us being chained to our smartphones."
"says John Aplin of the University of Manchester, UK. During pregnancy, the lining of the uterus behaves quite differently to normal:
"says Graham Burton of the University of Cambridge, whose team discovered in 2002 that the uterus lining not the mother's blood nourishes the embryo."
Andres Clarens at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his team say pumping CO2 into the wells could prevent this.
a petroleum geologist at Newcastle University in the UK but unnecessary. ractures rarely extend past a few hundred metres above the shale reservoir,
says team member Miles Montgomery at the University of Toronto, Canada. ou could build it in situ, almost like designer tissue.
says Jay Zhang of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, although he adds that clinical applications are some way off. he real test is how it works in vivo,
says Lonnie Shea of the University of Michigan at Ann arbor, one of the developers. So far the idea has been tested in mice.
and use a few hundred watts, says Wilfred van der Wiel of the University of Twente in The netherlands. he human brain can do orders of magnitude more and uses only 10 to 20 watts.
says Jie Han of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. he physics is there, but of course you still have to demonstrate it.
and night, says Roman Hovorka of the University of Cambridge. This means there is no need to wake up to check blood sugar levels throughout the night.
and use a few hundred watts, says Wilfred van der Wiel of the University of Twente in The netherlands. he human brain can do orders of magnitude more and uses only 10 to 20 watts.
says Jie Han of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Van der Wiel hopes the work will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems that are difficult for computers, such as pattern recognition.
says Thomas Angelini at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who led the research. Print for your life Angelini team has used already the technique to print material out of living cells including human blood-vessel and canine kidney cells.
says Neil Roberts at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The water content of our cells doesn tend to vary much,
Paul Bernal of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, says the judgement makes it hard to see how it is legal for any personal data gathered in the EU to now be sent to the US for processing. he ruling basically says US surveillance cannot be allowed to override our fundamental rights,
Now, a team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, has taken a significant step forward by making a cloak for infrared radiation,
says John Pendry of Imperial College London, who pioneered the mathematics behind invisibility cloaks. ith the basic theory done
says Debbie Hay at the University of Auckland in New zealand. here has been a great deal of debate around the mechanisms of migraine.
To investigate, Simon Akerman at New york University and Peter Goadsby at Kings College London, UK,
Now Joel Carpenter at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and his colleagues have demonstrated a workaround.
Ludwig Aigner at Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg in Austria and his colleagues targeted a set of receptors in the brain that, when activated,
says James Nicoll, a neuropathologist at the University of Southampton, UK. Aigner agrees he will start by testing the drug in people with Parkinson disease,
Kenneth Forbus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is confident that services like this will prove useful in the future. achines that help us filter could increase the rate at
"says Carrie Albertin, a biologist at the University of Chicago. As technology to sequence DNA has gotten faster and cheaper,
And after a team at the University of Chicago started sequencing a particular octopus species,
Surgeons at Salamanca University Hospital reported the man's case and how they made the prosthesis last month in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
of Salamanca University Hospital, said in a statement. He and his colleagues hope the better fit will mean fewer complications in the long run.
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