Rod Ruoff, professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Texas at Austin) To get an idea of the nanomaterial graphene, imagine a lightweight material having the strongest chemical bond in nature and, thus, exceptional ...
A variety of lenses used by the gimbal-mounted lidar device are visible through the opening in its ball-shaped housing. (Credit: NASA/Tony Landis) Two critical sensor technologies being developed by NASA Langley Research Center will enable this capability. One is a three-dimensional active imaging device ...
The project is called SABRE (Self-healing cellular Architectures for Biologically-inspired highly Reliable Electronic systems). The part of the project to be carried out in Bristol will be based at Bristol Robotics lab (BRL), which is jointly run by the University of Bristol and UWE. Increasingly, our lives are intertwined with digital ...
Now, new research by scientists in New York and Taiwan has led to a vaccine with the potential to stop most strains of H5N1 flu viruses in their tracks. David D. Ho, Rockefeller’s Irene Diamond Professor and scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, together with his colleagues at ...
The findings, published in the Oct. 3, 2008, issue of the journal Science, relate to a property of so-called "nano-confined" water – specifically, whether hollow carbon nanotubes take in the liquid easily or reluctantly, depending on their temperature. As well as shedding light on the characteristics of human-made nanomaterials, researchers note ...
Iberulite observed with an electronic microscope (SEM). (Credit: University of Granada) Researchers José Luis Díaz Hernández, of the Andalusian Research and Farming, Fishing, Food, and Ecological Production Training Institute (IFAPA) and Jesús Párraga Martínez, of the Department of Edaphology and Farming Chemistry of the ...
Electric eel anatomy: The first detail shows stacks of electrocytes, cells linked in series (to build up voltage) and parallel (to build up current). Second detail shows an individual cell with ion channels and pumps penetratimng the membrance, The Yale/NIST model represents the ...
The researchers filled a cylindrical bucket with glass beads and measured the force required to lift the beads. (Credit: Costantino, Penn State) The result may be useful for engineering foundations for objects to be anchored in sandy soils, such as power-line towers, or for ...
A new series of studies finds that exposure to plastic products contain "endocrine disrupting chemicals" are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals. (Credit: iStockphoto/Yvan Dub) Plastic products contain "endocrine disrupting chemicals" that can block the production of the male ...
Argonne scientist Karena Chapman examines the diamond anvil pressure cell at the Advanced Photon Source. (Credit: Image courtesy of DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) In MOF materials, metal ions can be connected by organic molecules to form scaffolding-like structures similar to a molecular Tinker toy. The ...