Boston Dynamics: Quadruped Rough Terrain Robot Prototype
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Boston Dynamics has released a prototype of an all-terrain robot, BigDog. The quadruped robot is equipped with a computer featuring sensors that aid its movements over harsh terrain. The robot is powered by ...
MIT spin-off plans to manufacture cheap, efficient solar cells
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Researchers from MIT have improved commercial solar cells that will soon be significantly cheaper and more efficient than those available today. Ely Sachs, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, predicts ...
Probing Question: How were the Egyptian pyramids built?
Mar 27, 2008 |
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The Aztecs, Mayans and ancient Egyptians were three very different civilizations with one very large similarity: pyramids. However, of these three ancient cultures, the Egyptians set the standard for what ...
Carbon Nanotubes Improve Fuel Cells
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A group of scientists has created a new, improved fuel-cell electrode that is very lightweight and thin. Composed of a network of single-walled carbon nanotubes, the electrode functions nearly as well as conventional electrodes ...
Firing photons makes advance in space communication
Mar 27, 2008 |
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For the first time, physicists have been able to identify individual returning photons after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in orbit almost 1,500 kilometres above the earth. The experiment has proven ...
A ton of bitter melon produces sweet results for diabetes
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Scientists have uncovered the therapeutic properties of bitter melon, a vegetable and traditional Chinese medicine, that make it a powerful treatment for Type 2 diabetes.
Scientists find that squid beak is both hard and soft, a material that engineers want to copy
Mar 27, 2008 |
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How did nature make the squid’s beak super hard and sharp –– allowing it, without harm to its soft body –– to capture its prey? The question has captivated those interested in creating new materials that mimic biological ...
Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, ...
Robotic minds think alike?
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Most schoolchildren struggle to learn geometry, but they are still able to catch a ball without first calculating its parabola. Why should robots be any different? A team of European researchers have developed ...
AMD Launches World's First x86 Triple-Core Processors
Mar 27, 2008 |
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AMD today announced the availability of AMD Phenom X3 8000 series triple-core processors, providing gamers and digital media enthusiasts with exceptional performance at mainstream price points. AMD Phenom ...
Silicon chips for optical quantum technologies
Mar 27, 2008 |
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A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light – photons – on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards the long sought after goal of a super-powerful quantum computer.
Can you rescue a rainforest? The answer may be yes
Mar 27, 2008 |
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Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rainforests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute took on a project that many thought was impossible - restoring a tropical rainforest ecosystem.
New Nanoparticles for Targeting Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 27, 2008 |
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As a wide variety of nanoparticles continue to demonstrate their ability to improve the delivery of imaging agents and drugs to tumors, nanoparticle researchers have turned their attention to the challenge of systematically ...
Researchers link genetic errors to schizophrenia
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A team of researchers at the University of Washington and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories has uncovered genetic errors that may shed light on the causes of schizophrenia. The scientists found that deletions and duplications ...
Findings reveal how dengue virus matures, becomes infectious
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Biologists at Purdue University have determined why dengue virus particles undergo structural changes as they mature in host cells and how the changes are critical for enabling the virus to infect new host ...
