Posts belonging to Category 'Technology & Engineering'
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call “bioinspiration” in a quest to build the world’s first legged robot that is capable of running effortlessly over rough [...]
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December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Sajeev John and Xun Ma have discovered new behaviors of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that don’t overheat.
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: artificial atoms, circuit paths, compact computers, dissipation, electronic computing, electronic counterparts, electronic state, fundamental equations, heat dissipation, John, laser pulses, mechanism, optical pulses, photonic computers, photonic crystal, photonic crystals, physical review letters, quantum dot, quantum dots, quantum optics, university of toronto, wavelength of the light, Xun | No Comments »
December 14, 2009 | Posted by admin
Ethanol, often promoted as a clean-burning, renewable fuel that could help wean the nation from oil, would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, compared with gasoline, especially in winter, according to a new study led by Stanford researchers.
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: aldehydes, american geophysical union, american geophysical union meeting, atmospheric chemistry, byproducts of combustion, catalytic converters, cold temperature, cold temperatures, cold weather, doctoral candidate, health concern, health impacts, ozone formation, ozone health effects, ozone production, renewable fuel, stanford researchers, warm sunny weather, winter conditions | No Comments »
December 11, 2009 | Posted by admin
The world of IT pursues its race for performance. CMOSAIC could boost the computing performance of central processors by a factor 10 while consuming less energy. The IBM Research Laboratory has joined EPFL and ETH Zurich – the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology – in this project of national scope supported by the Swiss [...]
Categories: Science & Nanotechnology, Technology & Engineering | Tags: central heating system, cubic centimetre, ecole polytechnique fédérale, ecole polytechnique fédérale de lausanne, epfl, eth zurich, federal institutes, functional density, future computers, human brain, institutes of technology, john r thome, lausanne switzerland, liquid coolant, national science foundation, national scope, sister organisation, snsf, swiss national science, swiss national science foundation | No Comments »
December 11, 2009 | Posted by admin
If you’ve been waiting for the day to arrive when computers actually start performing surgery, that moment might soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to operate on a beating heart, according to a report in The International Journal of Robotics Research, published [...]
Categories: Health & Medicine, Technology & Engineering | Tags: 3d imaging, 3d model, beating heart, chest wall, french team, heart procedures, instantaneous feedback, mathematical representation, microelectronics, microsurgery, richa, robotic arm, robotic arms, robotic technology, robotics research, single step, surgical tools, thin plate, three dimensions, unnecessary risk | No Comments »
December 11, 2009 | Posted by admin
CHESTNUT HILL, MA (12/11/2009) – Boston College researchers have observed the “hot electron” effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar power efficiency, the authors report in the current online edition of Applied Physics Letters.
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: author michael, boiling water, boston college, chestnut hill, college researchers, conduction band, energy states, escape hatch, free electrons, generation devices, kinetic energy, Krzysztof Kempa, Michael J. Naughton, physics letters, power efficiency, solar cell, solar cells, solar power, swimming pool, t travel, water drop | No Comments »
November 11, 2009 | Posted by admin
It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces might be helping to make it [...]
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November 11, 2009 | Posted by admin
AMES, Iowa – James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device’s buttons and joystick to fly through a patient’s chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart.
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: Eliot Winer, James Olive | No Comments »
November 6, 2009 | Posted by admin
The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event.
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: background information, classmates, Ed Coyle, eStadium, eStadium application, fellow fans, football game, georgia tech, information delivery, instant replays, intelligent devices, living room, new application, personal digital assistants, pockets, precursor, professor ed, purdue university, rare breed, smartphone, social networking, wake forest university | No Comments »
October 31, 2009 | Posted by admin
DURHAM, N.C. — By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions of everyday life.
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: Brian Mann, duke university, electronic devices, experimental device, harvest electricity, life energy, linear approach, linear devices, novel approach, Physics, Samuel Stanton, source of energy, vagaries, wind farms | No Comments »