Fossilized Diatoms Enhance Solar Power Technology
Researchers at Yale University demonstrate the use of fossilized diatoms (diatomaceous earth) to boost solar technology. Diatoms, a kind of algae that reproduces prodigiously, have…
Researchers at Yale University demonstrate the use of fossilized diatoms (diatomaceous earth) to boost solar technology. Diatoms, a kind of algae that reproduces prodigiously, have…
A team of researchers has made the first demonstration of a solid state cooling device based on the electrocaloric effect. This thin flexible device that…
New research details how an electrocatalyst made up of copper nanoparticles provides the conditions necessary to break down carbon dioxide to form ethylene, ethanol, and…
A team of engineers has developed a new microfluidic device uses acoustics to quickly analyze blood for signatures of cancer and other diseases. Cells secrete…
In a new study, Berkeley Lab scientists harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than…
Engineers from MIT have developed a new method to produce printable structures that begin to fold up as soon as they are peeled off the…
Researchers from MIT are set to present a new general-purpose technique for making sense of neural networks trained to perform natural-language-processing tasks, in which computers…
Engineers from MIT have developed a system that enables small, safe, aerial drones to read RFID tags in large warehouses at a distance of several…
Engineers from MIT have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in pipes with pinpoint precision, no matter what the…
Researchers from MIT and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity,…
A team of engineers at MIT has developed a method for designing efficient computer chips that may get miniature smart drones off the ground. In…
Researchers from MIT have designed a system that reallocates cache access on the fly, increasing processing speed by 20 to 30 percent while reducing energy…
Using graphene, researchers from MIT have developed a dialysis membrane material that can filter nanometer-sized molecules at 10 to 100 times the rate of commercial…
Researchers from Yale University have identified natural design principles in photosynthesis that could improve energy efficiency in new solar technology. In photosynthesis, green plants use…
Aerospace engineers have developed a laser sensing technique, called laser polarimetry, that can decipher not only where but what kind of space junk may be…
New batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles, giving UUVs a tenfold increase in range over traditional lithium-ion batteries used for the same…
A team of engineers propose a new architecture for a fully optical neural network that, in principle, could offer an enhancement in computational speed and…
SCHOTT at Mainz, Germany has completed the casting of the secondary mirror blank for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The completed mirror will be 4.2…