because different objects are going to respond to sound in different ways. In ongoing work, the researchers have begun trying to determine material and structural properties of objects from their visible response to short bursts of sound.
what s on them Researchers at MIT and in Saudi arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control how fluids
But at present even in desert locations the only way to counter this fouling is to hose the arrays down a labor-and water-intensive method.
We need a way to reduce the dust accumulation. Watch a water droplet get pulled across an active surface designed by MIT researchers.
Now researchers at MIT have found a way to control how the material conducts electricity by using extremely short light pulses
The researchers found that by controlling the concentration of electrons in a graphene sheet they could change the way the material responds to a short but intense light pulse.
But if the graphene starts out with high electron concentration the pulse decreases its conductivity the same way that a metal usually behaves.
and bipolar disorder represent the best way to gain molecular insights into these disorders. The discovery of specific genes associated with these disorders provides significant clues to their biological basis and points to possible molecular targets for novel therapies.
We still have a long way to go but for the first time we can point to specific genes and biological processes.
Recently, scientists have explored ways to improve the efficiency of solar-thermal harvesting by developing new solar receivers and by working with nanofluids.
This is a completely intuitive and natural way to move your robotic fingers says Harry Asada the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
and grab an orange in a different way than say a mug just two general patterns of motion are used to grasp objects:
and adds to the many ways that robotics can change our perceptions of ourselves. Down the road Asada says the robot may also be scaled down to a less bulky form.
Wearable robots are a way to bring the robot closer to our daily life e
Frustrated and standing half awake he contemplated ways to harness power from all around to charge the phone.
You as a user have absolutely no way of knowing what that means. The permissions don t tell you anything.
I don t see another way of making big data compatible with constitutional rights and human rights s
But MIT researchers have discovered a new inexpensive way of getting the two fluids apart again.
an ingenious process that makes large holes on one side that penetrate most of the way through the material providing little resistance to flow as well as nanoscale holes on the other surface in contact with the emulsion to be separated.
This noninvasive approach could pave the way to using optogenetics in human patients to treat epilepsy and other neurological disorders,
or impossible to achieve in any other way. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, MIT Charles E. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, the Wallonie-Bruxelles International, the Belgian American Education Foundation,
So if youe going way across, rather than having one congested path, you could have multiple ones.
if these technologies didn find their way into commercial products. After testing the prototype chips to ensure that theye operational
#A new way to detect leaks in pipes Explosions caused by leaking gas pipes under city streets have made frequently headlines in recent years,
Remote access to a Web server would be controlled much the way it is now through passwords and encryption.
And second it provides a way to determine whether anyone has tried to tamper with the transaction logs for a particular data item such as to delete the record of an illicit use.
and a framework for an early KGS module. e all came together anticipating that the building industry was about to change a lot in the way it uses data,
potentially opening the way for the development of synthetic materials that could have similar light-blocking properties.
Only indirect ways of probingcan be used, he says. The disorder that turned out to be key,
However, until now there has been no way to image this neural activity over a large volume, in three dimensions,
rather than just refocusing it into a single point on the camera the way regular microscopes do,
the light passing through them will interfere with itself in ways that actually heighten the resolution of the resulting images.
which in turn could smooth the way for the adoption of multiperspective 3-D. ne thing you could do
We couldn figure out a way around that. hey came up with a screen that instead of stretching the image
However, it has been difficult for scientists to find safe and effective ways to deliver gene-blocking RNA to the correct targets.
and targeting it to having smart nanoparticles that deliver drug combinations in the way that you need to really attack the tumor.
the wiresconnections get switched around so that the second drug works in a much more effective way.
we can put these systems together in a smart way that allows them to be as effective as possible,
For Kushman and his colleaguespurposes, Macsyma provided a way to distill algebraic equations with the same general structure into a common template.
we need ways to monitor neural function deep in the brain with spatial, temporal, and functional precision, he says.
but we found a way to leverage them. o one has thought ever of using the solar cell as an energy storage itself,
The company which aims to leverage biotechnology as a way to solve environmental issues is also modifying their system to generate value from wastewater in agricultural and military fields,
and has since found its way back to space. Meeting at MIT in 2006 over a shared fondness for biotech, Silver, then a research scientist in MIT Space Systems Lab,
#Fast way to measure DNA repair Our DNA is under constant attack from many sources,
an MIT postdoc and lead author of the PNAS paper. hat we wanted to do was come up with one way of measuring all DNA repair pathways at the same time so you have a single readout that easy to measure.
but there s currently no reliable noninvasive way to make such measurements. However a new sensor developed at MIT could change that:
Ralph Weissleder a professor at Harvard Medical school and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Molecular Imaging Research says this type of sensor is a novel way to potentially track how cancer patients
The ways we currently have to measure oxygen tension are fairly cumbersome and not quantitative so no one really uses them.
The researchers are now working on sensors that could be used to monitor other biological properties such as ph. We hope this is the first of many types of solid-state contrast agents where the material responds to its chemical environment in such a way that we can detect it by MRI Cima says.
Starting a company is one way of enhancing that efficiency. And it s ideal for passion:
or the development of better ways to process materials so that energy losses during exciton migration are limited.
can you find the same item delivered to the consumer in the exact same way with the exact same retailer, with the exact same procedures?
CRISPR which offers an easy way to snip out mutated DNA and replace it with the correct sequence holds potential for treating many genetic disorders according to the research team.
Previous work had demonstrated ways of selectively reflecting light except for one precise angle, but those approaches were limited to a narrow range of colors of light.
It s an interesting way of thinking about materials synthesis which is very different from
A team of MIT chemists and chemical engineers has designed a way to manufacture peptides in mere hours.
Creating and studying peptides that are mirror images of these natural proteins could pave the way to developing such peptides as new drugs with completely different functions from the right-handed versions.
whether nature might do it in the same way she says. Marchese built the fish in Rus lab where other researchers are working on printable robotics.
Wee a long way from that, but it not inconceivable. Koch Institute postdoc Alexandra Naba is the lead author of the study
Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a new way to deliver such vaccines directly to the lymph nodes
and no way to continue that education Priyadarshi says. And often in India he says Once they become teachers they re shy of going back to education.
and mentality of the young Tibetans and monks who see things a different way. The program emphasizes leadership
Krebs says it may use the MIT-Manus robot as a more efficient way to evaluate the drug impact by employing the measurement techniques on a smaller group of patients n
but still stimulates the auditory nerve in the appropriate way. Verification The waveform was based on prior research involving simulated nerve fibers,
and found a low-power way to implement it in hardware. Two of their collaborators at MEEI Konstantina Stankovic, an ear surgeon who co-led the study with Chandrakasan,
and fmri have been connected in this way, giving us a unique perspective, Pantazis says. e now have the tools to precisely map brain function both in space and time,
now it closer to 8 pounds, Ball says. ee always trying to find better ways to accomplish things.
Hypothetically, Finkelstein notes, the results ould have gone either way, which makes empirical work all the more important.
Other scholars in the field say the study opens the way for further scrutiny of emergency room use.
In this way the software was able to analyze the information to detect subtle trends in the features of these faces that made them more or less memorable to people.
but always in a very subtle way Oliva says. We all wish to use a photo that makes us more visible to our audience says Aleix Martinez an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State university.
The way a camera senses images is through different numbers of detected photons at different pixels Kirmani says.
That assumption enables the system to filter out noise in a more principled way. Kirmani developed the computational imager together with his advisor Vivek Goyal a research scientist in RLE and other members of Goyal s Signal Transformation and Information Representation Group.
#Creating synthetic antibodies MIT chemical engineers have developed a novel way to generate nanoparticles that can recognize specific molecules, opening up a new approach to building durable sensors for many different compounds
They are now working on a way to predict such polymer-nanotube interactions based on the structure of the corona layers,
But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that perceived barrier, reducing the contact time by at least 40 percent.
The way to achieve that minimum contact time, the conventional wisdom holds, is to minimize interaction between the water and the surface,
But Varanasi team found that increasing the surface interaction in a particular way can speed the process beyond that previous limit.
in such a way that the overall contact time is reduced significantly, says Bird, the paper lead author. he upshot is that the surface stays drier longer
It will be interesting to see possible ways these ideas might be applied in the future. In addition to waterproofing and prevention of surface icing
Now, MIT researchers have come up with a way to cool hot surfaces more effectively by keeping droplets from bouncing.
recent MIT Phd recipient Hyuk-Min Kwon and former MIT postdoc J. C. Bird, was to find a way to increase the temperature at which water droplets start bouncing.
In 2006, Doyle lab developed a way to create huge batches of identical particles made of hydrogel, a spongy polymer.
A new study from MIT and the University of Toronto offers a possible way to overcome that resistance.
To do that they developed a new way to tag the drug with a protein fragment developed in Kelley s lab that can enter the cell
There are other ways for a cell to die besides apoptosis. You want a therapeutic agent to induce programmed cell death
the machine gets out of the way as much as it needs to so you do not impose motion,
Moreover one of the MIT researchers innovations was a new compact way to represent the differences between individual speakers voices
There is no fast and easy way to diagnose these clots which often remain undetected until they break free
A team of engineers has developed a way to detect blood clots using a simple urine test. The noninvasive diagnostic described in a recent issue of the journal ACS Nano relies on nanoparticles that detect the presence of thrombin a key blood-clotting factor.
In the rotationone reason the Bingham distribution is so useful for robot vision is that it provides a way to combine information from different sources.
and Popovic s algorithm to explore possible rotations in a principled way quickly converging on the one that provides the best fit between points.
Big umbrellamoreover in the same way that the Bingham distribution can combine the probabilities for each pair of points into a single probability it can also incorporate probabilities from other sources of information such as estimates of the curvature of objects surfaces.
distribution will eventually become the standard way in which roboticists represent object orientation. The Bingham distribution lives on a hypersphere Bradski says the higher-dimensional equivalent of a circle or sphere.
Gilpin says. f you drop one of these along the way, or something goes wrong, it can rejoin the group,
a Morocco native, was motivated to find innovative new ways to help his country craftsmen leverage the opportunities provided by a globalized economy.
Consumers will also benefit from the new platform in several key ways. Guaranteed handcrafted authenticity and quality control.
#New way to model sickle cell behavior Patients with sickle cell disease often suffer from painful attacks known as vaso-occlusive crises, during
but there are currently no good ways to predict when a vaso-occlusive crisis, which can last for several days,
However, there is currently no good way to model how this deoxygenation affects patientsred blood cells, which do not all behave the same way,
making it hard to predict the risk of a vaso-occlusive crisis, Dao says. He and his colleagues designed their microfluidic device to mimic the conditions inside a blood vessel as oxygen leaves the Blood cells flow through a narrow channel that wraps around a compartment containing oxygen.
Now researchers at MIT may have found a way to change that. By producing complex multimodal fibers that could be less than the width of a hair,
allowing them to stay in the body much longer without harming the delicate tissues around them. ee building neural interfaces that will interact with tissues in a more organic way than devices that have been used previously,
nd bears the potential to revolutionize the way we approach treatment for compulsive overeating. The researchers also characterized the heterogeneous neurons on the receiving end of these projections in the VTA.
Some of the 27 affected genes play a role in protein synthesis regulation, leading Bear and colleagues to wonder if 16p11.2 microdeletion syndrome and fragile X syndrome affect synapses in the same way.
#Taking control of light emission Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves.
and can couple in ways that afford a great deal of control over the behavior of light.
when the materials are combined in a certain way, the plasmons and phonons can couple, producing a strong resonance.
ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand. nother potential application,
This science festival was unpredicted an benefit of an association that had begun with a brainstorming session in Phnom penh on ways to improve the training of people who work with unexploded mines and other remnants of conflict in Cambodia and around the world.
and is looking at more ways to improve EOD education using technology. Vandiver, on top of other MIT and Edgerton Center-related work, stays in contact
e realized that a better way to make use of this flowable electrode technology was to reinvent the lithium ion manufacturing process. nstead of the standard method of applying liquid coatings to a roll of backing material,
Classmate and U s army veteran David Young MBA 2 joined the project early to provide a perspective of an end-user. he VMS steered us right in many ways,
and you need good people. n that way, Bernstein adds, Bounce Imaging already had a leg up. nlike many ventures Ie seen,
ouldn this be a great way to make a drug-delivery system??Langer says. He brought this idea to Cima,
Cima says. here was no precedent for that. he company has also found ways to integrate electronics into the microchips to shrink down the device.
and developing ways to deposit Gan on large wafers used by silicon foundries. asically, we are fabricating our advanced Gan transistors and circuits in conventional silicon foundries,
Scientists are coming up with more efficient ways to monitor health and climate. A lot of talk has gone into the sensors in cameras that enable quicker focusing and better colours.
biometric sensors will be featured in 40 percent of smartphones shipped to end users With the way technology is developing and the increasing consumer demand,
and new ways that sensors are being used. More news comes in every week. Wel keep it coming into the new year,
Looking at Shoppers in a New Way Looking at Shoppers in a New Way This year,
By demonstrating a new way to change the amount of electrons that reside in a given region within a piece of graphene they have a proof-of-principle in making the fundamental building blocks of semiconductor devices using the 2-D material.
Moreover their method enables this value to be tuned through the application of an electric field meaning graphene circuit elements made in this way could one day be rewired dynamically without physically altering the device.
We've come up with a non-destructive reversible way of doping Rappe said that doesn't involve any physical changes to the graphene.
but we've come up with a third way. Here we have graphene standing by on the surface of the oxide but not binding to it.
Now a team of physicists at the University of California Riverside has found an ingenious way to induce magnetism in graphene while also preserving graphene's electronic properties.
This is the first time that graphene has been made magnetic this way said Jing Shi a professor of physics
The way atoms line up along the edge of a ribbon of graphenehe atom-thick form of carbonontrols
but steady force along one axis will crack it in such a way that fully reconstructed 5-7 rings will form
In step four called charge collection the free electron makes its way through the active layer to a point where it can be harvested.
The researchers created highly organized nanostructures within a portion of the active layer of an organic solar cell meaning that the molecules in that portion all ran the same way.
The shapes and thicknesses of the QD patterns exhibit systematic dependence on the dimensions of the printing nozzle and the ink composition in ways that allow nearly arbitrary systematic control when exploited in a fully automated printing tool.
#Nanoparticles for clean drinking water One way of removing harmful nitrate from drinking water is to catalyse its conversion to nitrogen.
In addition to paving the way for improved consumer electronics, this technology could also have specific uses in industrial and military applications.
In the year 2010 however a way was found to synthesise nanoribbons with atomic precision by means of the so-called molecular self-assembly.
Molecules designed for this purpose are deposited onto a surface in such a way that they react with each other
and cellular barriers and also find their way into the circulatory system. Their study is published in the December 2014 issue of Environmental Toxicology.
Coating nanoparticles with different substances allows their interaction with cells to be tuned in a particular way.
This work demonstrates that by stacking multiple two-dimensional (2-D) materials in random ways we can create semiconductor junctions that are as functional as those with perfect alignment says Dr. Linyou Cao senior author of a paper on the work
#'Trojan horse'proteins are step forward for nanoparticle-based anticancer and anti-dementia therapeutic approaches Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers
However changing the surfaces of CNTS affected how likely the complement system was to be activated and in what way.
The team had to find ways to handle these incompatibilities and also had to develop new methods to print electronics rather than use the techniques commonly used in the electronics industry.
Traditional manufacturing which uses lithography to create electronic components is a fast and efficient way to make multiple copies with a very high reliability.
or devices that require the blending of unusual materials in customized ways. Trying to print a cellphone is probably not the way to go Mcalpine said It is customization that gives the power to 3-D printing.
In this case the researchers were able to custom 3-D print electronics on a contact lens by first scanning the lens and feeding the geometric information back into the printer.
but bend and scatter the light that passes through them in predictable ways according to the angle that the light takes when it hits the nanosphere.
The researchers are currently looking at several additional ways to manipulate the technique to control the shape of resulting structures.
And ultimately we want to look at ways of controlling the placement of particles on the photosensitive film in patterns other than uniform arrays.
Then as the researchers slowly release the pressure the atoms reconnect in an entirely different yet very orderly way.
A precise control and manipulation of quantum-mechanical states could pave the way for promising applications such as quantum computers and quantum cryptography.
The single-electron pump was operated in such a way that it released exactly one electron pair per pulse into a semiconducting channel.
and harvest hydrogen is one of the most intriguing ways to achieve clean energy. Automakers have started introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
#Designing complex structures beyond the capabilities of conventional lithography Gold nanoparticles smaller than 10 nanometers spontaneously self-organize in entirely new ways
and engineers at Oregon State university have discovered a fascinating new way to take some of the atmospheric carbon dioxide that's causing the greenhouse effect
However it will provide an environmentally friendly low-cost way to make nanoporous graphene for use in supercapacitors-devices that can store energy and release it rapidly.
There are other ways to fabricate nanoporous graphene but this approach is faster has little environmental impact
Because graphene can be produced these days in square metre sheets we hope that it will find its way to commercial fuel cells sooner rather than later r
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and The swiss Federal Institute of technology (ETH) researchers have developed a cost-effective and more efficient way to manufacture nanoporous metals over many scales from nanoscale to macroscale
and new ways of delivering gene therapies, say the scientists behind the study. At the heart of every cell in our body is a cell nucleus,
Remarkably, the strands of'spaghetti'cluster together in a precise way which allows small molecules and salts to flow through without any trouble.
but it allows us to come up with far better maps of small objects than is possible with other methods-even individual atoms can be observed this way.
there may be opportunities to develop drugs that prevent viruses entering in this way. It may also be possible to improve on the design of current mechanisms for delivering gene therapy to better cross the nuclear pores
NTU associate professors Zhang Qichun and Joachim Loo have found a way to make the nanoparticle light up
Scientists have developed now a fast low-cost way of making these sensors by directly printing conductive ink on paper.
Hu's team wanted to develop a way to print it directly on paper to make a sensor that could respond to touch or specific molecules such as glucose.
Metal ink could ease the way toward flexible electronic books displays More information: Direct Writing on Paper of Foldable Capacitive Touch Pads with Silver nanowire Inks ACS Appl.
That way, tests will give accurate representations of reality.""The NIST team exposed samples of DNA to titanium dioxide nanoparticles under three different conditions:
cause the platelets to interact with the hydrogel in a unique way. Specifically, the interaction causes the gel to temporarily undergo a change in its viscosity
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