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
Jeffrey Cirillo professor in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology at Texas A&m Health Science Center (TAMHSC) College of Medicine and his team have discovered a new method to spot the bacteria that causes
#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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#DNA helps nanoparticle crystals self-assemble Northwestern University rightoriginal Studyposted by Megan Fellman-Northwestern on December 2 2013using the same structure found in nature researchers have built the first near-perfect single crystals
In this recent work Mirkin an experimentalist and professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences teamed up with Monica Olvera de la Cruz a theoretician
says Olvera de la Cruz who also is a professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts
There s no reason we can t grow extraordinarily large single crystals in the future using modifications of our techniquesays Mirkin who also is a professor of medicine chemical and biological engineering biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering and director of the university s International Institute for Nanotechnology.
professor at Sungkyunkwan University in the Republic of korea. Co-authors contributed from Florida State university and Texas A&m University.
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#Computer gets smarter by looking at online pics 24-7 Carnegie mellon University Posted by Byron Spice-Carnegie mellon on November 26 2013a computer program called the Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) is running 24
but people##and NEIL##nevertheless know that sheep typically are white. mages are the best way to learn visual propertiessays Abhinav Gupta assistant research professor in Carnegie mellon University s Robotics Institute. mages
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what we are excited aboutsays Professor George Eleftheriades of the University of Toronto. t s very practical. icture a mailbox sitting on the street.
Jude Keyse a postgraduate student at the University of Queensland School of Biological sciences says the find was surprising.
and yellow hues. o-author Shane Penny a postgraduate student at Charles darwin University says o correctly describe the new species now becomes critical as the effects of getting it wrong can be profound for fisheries ecology
#Faster 3d printing with multiple materials University of Southern California Posted by Megan Hazle-USC on November 21 2013researchers have developed a faster 3d printing process
and systems engineering at University of Southern California. Traditional modeling and prototyping approaches used to take days
#Engineers create smallest FM radio transmitter Columbia University rightoriginal Studyposted by Holly Evarts-Columbia on November 20 2013to build the world s smallest system that can create FM signals
James Hone a mechanical engineering professor at Columbia University who co-led the project says the work emonstrates an application of graphene that cannot be achieved using conventional materials.
This is a problem for all electrodes in high-capacity batteries says Hui Wu a former Stanford postdoc who is now a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing
#Russian meteor was a wake-up call University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Andy Fell-UC Davis on November 18 2013consumer video cameras
and planetary sciences at University of California Davis. Saying it was a ake-up callyin says the Chelyabinsk meteorite the largest strike
The largest single piece weighing about 650 kilograms was recovered from the bed of Lake Chebarkul in October by a team from Ural Federal University led by Professor Viktor Grokhovsky.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan found that the rock had been exposed to cosmic rays for only about 1. 2 million years unusually short for rocks originating in the Flora family.
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#Tiny Lego blocks build two-faced nanotubes University of Warwick rightoriginal Studyposted by Anna Blackaby-Warwick on November 14 2013using a process similar to molecular Lego scientists
and out of cellssays Sebastien Perrier professor at the University of Warwick. uch of this work is done by channel proteins for example in our nervous system where they modulate electrical signals by gating the flow of ions across the cell membranehe says.
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State university and Tel aviv University describe how they assigned queen bees to a variety of treatment groups.
#Solvent safely turns semiconductors into ink University of Southern California rightoriginal Studyposted by Robert Perkins-USC on November 13 2013a new solvent can dissolve semiconductors safely and at room temperature.
Once heated the solvent evaporates leaving behind only a high-quality film of crystalline semiconductor##perfect for use in electronics. t s inexpensive and easily scalablesays Richard Brutchey a chemistry professor at the University of Southern
#Crystal structure could push the limits of solar cells University of Pennsylvania right Original Studyposted by Evan Lerner-Pennsylvania on November 13 2013 A new model for solar cell construction may ultimately make them less expensive easier to manufacture
and of materials science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. e call this the bulk photovoltaic effect rather than the interface effect that happens in existing solar cells.
and engineering at Drexel University. ut adding just 10 percent of the barium nickel niobate moves the bandgap into the visible range
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#Calculations find best phosphors for better LEDS University of California Santa barbara rightoriginal Studyposted by Sonia Fernandez-UCSB on November 12 2013new research makes it possible to optimize phosphorsâ##a key component in white
LED lightingâ##allowing for brighter more efficient lights. hese guidelines should permit the discovery of new and improved phosphors in a rational rather than trial-and-error mannersays Ram Seshadri a professor in the department of materials at University
of physics at University of California Santa barbara. n a pixel-per-pixel basis it s a quantum leap from semiconductor detectors;
Undergraduate engineering student Allen Hawkes working with graduate student Alexander Katko and lead investigator Steven Cummer professor of electrical and computer engineering designed an electrical circuit capable of harvesting microwaves.
and biomedical engineering at Northwestern University and a co-author. e are far from duplicating the agility of animals with our most advanced robotsmaciver says. ne exciting implication of this work is that we might be held back in making more agile machines by our assumption that it s wasteful
#Dendrites are like minicomputers in your brain University of North carolina at Chapel hill rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on October 30 2013the branch-like projections of neurons called dendrites are not just passive wiring
as if the processing power of the brain is much greater than we had originally thoughtsays Spencer Smith an assistant professor in the University of North carolina at Chapel hill s School of medicine.
and Ikuko Smith set up their own lab at the University of North carolina. They used patch-clamp electrophysiology to attach a microscopic glass pipette electrode filled with a physiological solution to a neuronal dendrite in the brain of a mouse.
start with strange chemistry Stanford university University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Andy Fell-UC Davis on October 30 2013bacteria have been making hydrogen for billions of years
In a study published in the journal Science chemists describe a key step in assembling a hydrogen-generating catalyst. t s pretty interesting that bacteria can do thissays David Britt professor of chemistry at University of California Davis
#How food can build better lithium batteries Cornell University rightoriginal Studyposted by Anne Ju-Cornell on October 29 2013a component of corn starch
University and first author of two papers which are published in ACS Nano and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. rom electric vehicles to solar and wind power applications for better lithium-based battery technologies are countless.?
#Dolphin-like radar finds hidden explosives University of Southampton rightoriginal Studyposted by Andrew Duff-Southampton on October 25 2013inspired by the way dolphins hunt scientists have developed a new type of radar that can
The new system is based on a sonar concept called twin inverted pulse sonar (TWIPS) developed by Tim Leighton professor from the University of Southamptonâ#Institute of Sound and Vibration research.
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#First supercapacitor on a silicon chip could power phones Vanderbilt University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Salisbury-VU on October 24 2013engineers have constructed the first supercapacitor made out of silicon.
and a variety of other electromechanical devices providing a considerable cost savings. f you ask experts about making a supercapacitor out of silicon they will tell you it is a crazy ideasays Cary Pint an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University who headed the development
#Tunable antenna could end annoying dropped calls Cornell University rightoriginal Studyposted by Anne Ju-Cornell on October 22 2013.
what people have been using for decadessays Darrell Schlom professor of industrial chemistry at Cornell University who led the international research team. hat we have discovered is the world's lowest-loss tunable dielectric. ossrefers to wasted energy
Fan and his colleagues at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (Illinois) and North carolina State university collaborated on the project.
#There s a thermostat that stops neurons from spazzing out Brandeis University rightoriginal Studyposted by Leah Burrows-Brandeis on October 17 2013for the first time scientists have seen evidence in a living animal of a hermostatthat controls
and bring the brains of people suffering from such disorders back into balancesays Gina Turrigiano a professor at Brandeis University who led the study.
#Shortcut lets brain make memories in a flash Mcgill University rightoriginal Studyposted by Anita Kar-Mcgill U. on October 16 2013nerve cells have a special re-assemblytechnique that enables the brain to quickly form memories.
when it s the wrong timesays Wayne Sossin a neuroscientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at Mcgill University and senior investigator on the paper. his is especially important with nerve cells in the brain as you only want the brain to make precise
#Drop an internet in the ocean to detect tsunamis University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Cory Nealon-Buffalo on October 14 2013a deep-sea internet network is expected to improve the way scientists detect tsunamis monitor pollution
and analyze data from our oceans in real timesays Tommaso Melodia associate professor of electrical engineering at the University at Buffalo
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#Tiny water sensor embedded in plant stems Cornell University Posted by Krishna Ramanujan-Cornell on October 14 2013researchers are completing soil tests on a water sensor within a fingertip-sized silicon chip
and develop something that is not only a great improvement but also much cheaper for growers and others to usesays Alan Lakso professor of horticulture at Cornell University.
University of Ljubljana Slovenia; University of Szeged Hungary; and Cochin University of Science and Technology India.
The Air force Research Laboratory through the University Technology Corp. the Office of Naval Research MURI graphene program and the Air force Office of Scientific research MURI program supported the research.
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#Signs of water detected in exoplanet s debris University of Warwick rightoriginal Studyposted by Anna Blackaby-Warwick on October 11 2013the remains of a water-rich rocky exoplanet have been discovered outside
our solar system orbiting a white dwarf star 170 light years away. Using observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescopeâ
and debris that has been pulled into the orbit of its dying parent starâ#says Boris Gänsicke professor of physics at the University of Warwick. owever this planetary graveyard swirling around the embers of its parent star is a rich source
##and maybe still existâ##in the GD 61 system and likely also around substantial number of similar parent starssays lead author Jay Farihi from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. hese water-rich building blocks
Using a sophisticated computer model of the white dwarf atmosphere developed by Detlev Koester at the University of Kiel they were able to infer the chemical composition of the shredded minor planet.
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The relatively simple technique which two undergraduate alumni initially developed and studied could provide a scalable inexpensive platform to monitor toxic vapors from industrial solvents.
A team of researchers led by Professor Jaswinder Singh of Mcgill University s Department of Plant Science has identified a key gene that acts as a switch to determine how a particular plant will respond to high humidity
#Lava pillars in Iceland may have formed without a boom University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo on October 9 2013land-based lava pillars in Iceland may have formed through an unusual reaction typically seen
That finding is more likely than the one that suggests the rocky pillars dotting Icelandâ#Skaelingar valley were tossed projectiles into the fields by warring trollsâ##a theory University at Buffalo geologist Tracy Gregg heard from a tour guide and local hiker.
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They take almost no space at all. ther researchers from Rice university the University of Texas at Austin Oak ridge National Laboratory
and the National University of Singapore contributed to the study which was supported by Army Research Office the Office of Naval Research the Welch Foundation the Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials the National Science Foundation Oak ridge National Laboratory and the Department of energy.
#Chemical program controls synthetic DNA California Institute of technology University of Washington rightoriginal Studyposted by Michelle Ma-Washington on October 7 2013soon chemists could use a structured set of instructions##like using Python
and of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. he vision is that eventually you can use this technology to build general-purpose tools. urrently
Additional co-authors of the paper contributed from University of Washington; University of California San francisco; California Institute of technology;
and Microsoft Research. The National Science Foundation the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the National Centers for Systems Biology supported the research.
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#This electron accelerator is smaller than a grain of rice Stanford university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Ross-Stanford on September 30 2013researchers have used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology
A collaborating research group in Germany led by Peter Hommelhoff at Friedrich Alexander University and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has been looking for such a solution.
Additional contributors included researchers from the University of California-Los angeles and Tech-X Corp. in Boulder Colo.
Cornell University rightoriginal Studyposted by Blaine Friedlander-Cornell on September 30 2013with estimates that 15 to 40 percent of the world s species will be lost over the next 40 years due to warming
Jan Rabaey a world expert on electronic circuits and systems at the University of California Berkeley.
The Stanford team used this imperfection-immune design to assemble a basic computer with 178 transistors a limit imposed by the fact that they used the university s chip-making facilities rather than an industrial fabrication process.
In a demonstration of its potential the researchers also showed that the CNT COMPUTER could run MIPS a commercial instruction set developed in the early 1980s by then Stanford engineering professor and now university President John Hennessy.
Though it could take years to mature the Stanford approach points toward the possibility of industrial-scale production of carbon nanotube semiconductors according to Naresh Shanbhag a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Chicago rightoriginal Studyposted by Steve Koppes-Chicago on September 25 2013scientists are closer to understanding deep earthquakes which occur
and shock waves. e are capturing the physics of deep earthquakessays Yanbin Wang a senior scientist at the University of Chicago who helps run the X-ray facility at Argonne National Laboratory where the research occurred. ur experiments show that for the first time laboratory
The work was conducted at the Geosoilenvirocars beamline operated by University of Chicago at the Advanced Photon Source housed at Argonne.
More than 20 years ago geologist Harry Green of University of California Riverside and colleagues discovered a high-pressure failure mechanism that they proposed then was sought the long mechanism of very deep earthquakes (earthquakes
Study authors contributed from the Ecole Normale Supã rieure in France Universitã de Granoble in France the University of Chicago and UMET CNRS â##Universitã Lille 1 and UC Riverside.
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and we are quite happy that the DNP NMR technology is so useful for understanding this plant biochemistry questionsays Hong also a faculty scientist with the US Department of energy s Ames Laboratory.
#Earth s inner core spins faster than rest of planet University of Leeds rightoriginal Studyposted by Ben Jones-U. Leeds on September 17 2013the Earth s
and Environment at the University of Leeds. he magnetic field pushes eastwards on the inner core causing it to spin faster than the Earth
The study was a collaboration between the University of Leeds and The swiss Federal Institute of technology Zurich.
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but there are significant challenges in achieving true nanoscale dimension. ur work demonstrates that processes of polymer self-assembly can provide a way around this limitationsays John Rogers professor of materials science and engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Combining jet printing with self-assembling block copolymers enabled the engineers to attain the much higher resolution as suggested by lead author Serdar Onses a postdoctoral scientist at Illinois. Onses earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin
under Paul Nealey now professor of molecular engineering at the University of Chicago and a co-author of the paper in Nature Nanotechnology. his concept turned out to be really usefulrogers says.
The resolution of the chemical pattern nears the current limit of traditional photolithography notes Lance Williamson a graduate student in molecular engineering at University of Chicago
Back at the University of Illinois engineers place a block copolymer atop this pattern. The block copolymer self-organizes directed by the underlying template to form patterns that are at much higher resolution than the template itself.
I am optimistic about the possibilities. esearchers from Hanyang University in Korea also contributed to the study
Douglas Capone a professor and chair of biological sciences at the University of Southern California says that the research is notable both for understanding the nitrogen cycle
along with throwing light on the major controls on this key process over long time scales. dditional researchers from Princeton The swiss Institute of technology in Zurich (ETH) and Columbia University Lamont-doherty earth observatory.
#Glass just two atoms thick shatters world record Cornell University rightoriginal Studyposted by Anne Ju-Cornell on September 12 2013a aneof glass so impossibly thin that its individual silicon
and engineering physics at Cornell University. Scientists at Cornell and Germany s University of Ulm had been making graphene a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms in a chicken wire crystal formation on copper foils in a quartz furnace.
They noticed some uckon the graphene and upon further inspection found it to be composed of the elements of everyday glass silicon and oxygen.
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