News tagged with sensor nets

Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Nasa study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two years ago, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Researcher develops new way to assess risk for chemicals

Approximately 80,000 industrial chemicals are in use and about 700 new chemicals are introduced to commerce each year in the United States, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. To assess human health risks ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find best routes to self-assembling 3-D shapes

Material chemists and engineers would love to figure out how to create self-assembling shells, containers or structures that could be used as tiny drug-carrying containers or to build 3-D sensors and electronic ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Public-private partnership helps monitor fish populations

Managing commercial and recreational fisheries is a complex and sometimes contentious process in which fishing interests, scientists, and regulatory agencies don't always see eye-to-eye.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Eddie robot does party photography (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- News made developer rounds last month of Microsoft's Eddie, the reference robot grounded in Microsoft’s Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta. Described as a freely available .NET-based programming ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 29, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

SideBySide projection system enables projected interaction between mobile devices

Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a system called SideBySide that enables animated images from two separate handheld projectors to interact with each other ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tendons absorb shocks muscles won't handle

Anyone who has hiked down a mountain knows the soreness that comes a day or two after means the leg muscles have endured a serious workout. While the pain is real, it's not well understood how leg muscles ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Understanding tungsten migration blazes trail for nano electronic device development

Trios of tungsten atoms are greatly influenced in their migration across the wilds of a tiny particle by the shape of the particle, according to a team of experts, including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Fei ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Need for new magnet materials drives ORNL research

Increasing demand and a shrinking supply of rare earth elements for magnets creates a perfect opportunity for a research team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Minnesota. The goal is ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Carbon hitches a ride from field to market

Today, farming often involves transporting crops long distances so consumers from Maine to California can enjoy Midwest corn, Northwest cherries and other produce when they are out of season locally. But it ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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