Research Shows Advanced Biofuels Can Be Produced Extremely Efficiently
A chance to switch to renewable sources for heating, electricity and fuel, while also providing new opportunities for several industries to produce large numbers of…
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Engineers Create 3D-Printed Smart Gel That Walks Underwater, Moves Objects
Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them. The watery creation could lead to…
MIT Engineers Develop Autonomous Glider That Can Fly and Sail
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves…
Researchers Develop A Fuel Cell That Uses Lignin
Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University have developed a fuel cell that uses lignin, a cheap by-product from paper manufacture and…
NASA is Sending a Helicopter to Mars on Next Red Planet Rover Mission
NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled…
New Approach Helps Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Explore
Observing the world’s oceans is increasingly a mission assigned to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) — marine robots that are designed to drift, drive, or glide…
Cryptographic System Could Enable Crowdsourced Genomics
Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease, are the basis of much modern biomedical research. But databases…
GEDI Laser Instrument Moves Toward Launch to Space Station
A first-of-its-kind laser instrument designed to map the world’s forests in 3-D is moving toward an earlier launch to the International Space Station than previously…
Kilopower: A Gateway to Abundant Power for Space Exploration
NASA and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated a new nuclear reactor power system that could enable long-duration crewed…
ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Center Officially Opens
On 26 April 2018, the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Center was officially inaugurated, and opened the doors to the public on 28 April 2018….
When and Where Advanced Photovoltaics Are Economic to Install
Which is a better deal: an established, off-the-shelf type of solar panel or a cutting-edge type that delivers more power for a given area but…
A Framework for Sustainable Nanomaterial Selection and Design
Engineered nanomaterials hold great promise for medicine, electronics, water treatment, and other fields. But when the materials are designed without critical information about environmental impacts…
Key Parker Solar Probe Sensor Bests Sun Simulator, Set for Summer Launch
You don’t get to swim in the sun’s atmosphere unless you can prove you belong there. And the Parker Solar Probe’s Faraday cup, a key…
New Microscope Technology Reveals Cells In Unprecedented Detail
Cells of a zebrafish eye, computationally “exploded.” Video by Liu et al More than 350 years ago, the English natural philosopher Robert Hooke looked through…
New Implantable Device Furnishes Islet Cells With Their Own Supply of Oxygen
Since the 1960s, researchers have been interested in the possibility of treating type 1 diabetes by transplanting islet cells — the pancreatic cells that are…
DopplerScatt Doubles Scientists’ View of Ocean-Air Interactions
NASA scientists are hard at work trying to unlock mysteries of our planet’s ocean surface currents and winds using a new Earth science radar instrument…
Homemade Microscope Shows How a Cancer-Causing Virus Clings to Our DNA
Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, scientists at the School of Medicine have revealed how a cancer-causing virus anchors itself to our DNA. That discovery could…
Engineers Develop New Manufacturing Process That Spools Out Strips of Graphene
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene. The team’s results are the first demonstration of an industrial,…