Computer Chip Cores Communicate by Networks Instead of Bus
As the demand for faster computers continues to rise, so does the demand for microchips that will power those computers. While the idea of adding…
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Radio Telescope Square Kilometer Array Will be Powered by $43-Million IBM Supercomputer
The world’s largest telescope will be the Square Kilometer Array, and when it starts peering into radio waves emanating from the skies, it will generate…
Bringing Microfluidics to the Marketplace
Medical technology is moving fast and microfluidics may provide answers to health conditions as easy as a placing a drop of blood on a plastic…
Transparent Memory Chips – The Next Step in Memory Storage
As technology moves forward, things get smaller, faster and now possibly transparent. A team of scientists have developed transparent, flexible memory chips that may one…
Engineered Capsule that Buckles Under Pressure
Borrowing design ideas from a toy, scientists at MIT and Harvard have developed a new type of engineered capsule, dubbed “buckliball.” This one-piece silicone sphere…
Gold Nanorods Shaped as Starfruit Deliver Impressive Results
Starfruit is lending its shape to newly synthesized gold nanorods, whose particles have been found to return signals 25 times stronger than similar nanorods with…
3-D Solar Towers, The future of Photovoltaics?
As efforts continue to improve green technology and the performance of solar photovoltaic cells, a team of MIT scientists have developed a new space saving…
DSRS Triples Microbial Production of Diesel Fuel
By introducing the dynamic sensor-regulator system into a strain of E. coli bacteria engineered at JBEI to produce diesel fuel directly from glucose, researchers developed…
High Quality Microlenses from Calcium Carbonate Structures
By studying the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, whose body is covered with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate, scientists were able to create high quality…
Nanoparticle Based MRI Technique Predicts Onset of Diabetes
While working with mice, researchers were able to use a new magnetic nanoparticle based MRI technique to predict Type-1 diabetes and were able to leverage…
Mapping the Pathways of Electrical Charge from Molecule to Molecule
As efforts continue to improve nanotechnology and molecular electronic devices, a team of researchers has provided the first experimental determination of the pathways by which…
Analyzing the Environmental Costs and Impacts of Technology
With every new technology there are costs and environmental impacts to consider, and that’s exactly what MIT’s Environmentally Benign Manufacturing research group does. By routinely…
Nanoparticles in 3-D Atomic-Scale Resolution
Report of a new method for directly measuring the atomic structure of nanomaterials was published today in the journal Nature. By taking measurements at 69…
Berkeley Lab Software to Optimize Jail Microgrid
Residents of northern California won’t have to worry about prisoners escaping from the Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in the event of a major earthquake….
Camera Uses Femtosecond Laser to See Around Corners
A new study shows that cameras of the future may know what’s around a corner before you do. By using a system much like a…
Targeting Phosphorus Atoms for 3D MRI Images
By targeting phosphorus atoms and applying a complicated sequence of radio wave pulses, researchers were able to create a MRI technique that displays 3D images…
Amplifier Chip Measures Nanopores with High Speed Precision
Scientists continue to improve upon nanotechnology and find new uses for it. By designing a custom integrated circuit using commercial semiconductor technology, researchers have developed…
Supersonic Biplanes, The Future of Travel?
The Concorde was the perfect means of oversea travel until expensive tickets, high fuel costs, limited seating and noise disruption from the jet’s sonic boom…