Designing Synthetic Materials and Quickly Turning the Design Into Reality With 3-D Printing
Eng-Tips
Posted June 18, 2013 by in News
Researchers working to design new materials that are durable, lightweight and environmentally sustainable are increasingly looking to natural composites, such as bone, for inspiration: Bone is strong ...
           
New Array Measures Vibrations Across Skin, May Help Engineers Design Tactile Displays
Eng-Tips
Posted June 17, 2013 by in News
In the near future, a buzz in your belt or a pulse from your jacket may give you instructions on how to navigate your surroundings. Think of it as tactile Morse code: vibrations from a wearable, GPS-l...
           
Nanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives
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Posted June 14, 2013 by in News
Cheaper clean-energy technologies could be made possible thanks to a new discovery. Led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, research team members have found that an i...
           
Discovery of New Material State Counterintuitive to Laws of Physics
Eng-Tips
Posted June 13, 2013 by in News
When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you’re at Argonne National Laboratory. At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics and ...
           
Gamers Capture More Information Faster for Visual Decision-Making
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Posted June 12, 2013 by in News
Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player’s hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, a...
           
Superfast NoSQL Technology Applicable for Real-Time Data Processing Requirements for Smart Grid
Zen Kishimoto
Posted June 12, 2013 by in News
This blog is for ICT people and not for electric power people. Therefore, please bear with a short description to set the stage before I continue. The power industry is in the midst of a revolution br...
           
Fukushima Accident Raised Levels of Radioactive Strontium Off the Coast of Japan by 100 Times
Eng-Tips
Posted June 11, 2013 by in News
Researchers from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and the Department of Physics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have studied the spread of radioactive stro...
           
Nanotechnology and the Secret Life of Knots
Eng-Tips
Posted June 10, 2013 by in News
Nanotechnologies require a detailed knowledge of the molecular state. For instance, it is useful to know when and how a generic polymer, a long chain of polymers (chain of beads), knots. The study of ...
           
Earthquake Acoustics Can Indicate If a Massive Tsunami Is Imminent
Eng-Tips
Posted June 7, 2013 by in News
Stanford scientists have identified key acoustic characteristics of the 2011 Japan earthquake that indicated it would cause a large tsunami. The technique could be applied worldwide to create an early...
           
A Secret to Data Science Revealed
Zen Kishimoto
Posted June 6, 2013 by in News
Analytics is everywhere; at least, people talk and write about it in conjunction with Big Data. But analytics is always discussed at a very high level, omitting the details. Discussions tend to stay a...
           
NASA Builds Sophisticated Earth-Observing Microwave Radiometer
Eng-Tips
Posted June 6, 2013 by in News
A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past. This is an artist co...
           
Helicopter Takes to the Skies With the Power of Human Thought
Eng-Tips
Posted June 5, 2013 by in News
A remote controlled helicopter has been flown through a series of hoops around a college gymnasium in Minnesota. A remote controlled helicopter has been flown through a series of hoops around a colleg...
           
Fukushima-Derived Radioactivity in Seafood Poses Minimal Health Risk
Eng-Tips
Posted June 4, 2013 by in News
In 2012, Nicholas Fisher a distinguished professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University and postdoctoral scholar Zosia Baumann, working with a colleague a...
           
Boeing Completes New Spacecraft, Rocket Milestones
Eng-Tips
Posted June 3, 2013 by in News
The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance ...
           
Innovative New Nanotechnology Stops Bed Bugs in Their Tracks Literally
Eng-Tips
Posted May 31, 2013 by in News
Bed bugs now need to watch their step. Researchers at Stony Brook University have developed a safe, non-chemical resource that literally stops bed bugs in their tracks. This innovative new technology ...
           
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