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Playing Pinball With Atoms: How To Turn Nanotech Devices On And Off
With nanotechnology yielding
a burgeoning menagerie of
microscopic pumps, motors,
and other machines for
potential use in medicine
... > full story
Surface Tension Drives Segregation Within Cell Mixtures
What does a mixture of two
different kinds of cells
have in common with a
mixture of oil and water?
The same basic force causes
both mixtures to separate
... > full story
Artificial Cells: Models Of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying Possibilities
Researchers have applied
modern engineering design
tools to one of the basic
units of life. They say that
artificial cells could be
... > full story
Coastlines Could Be Protected From Large Water Waves By Invisibility Cloak
Scientists have tested an
'invisibility cloak' that
could reduce the risk of
large water waves
overtopping coastal
... > full story
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Smart Electricity Meter Developed
October 7, 2008 — Engineers have just developed one of the world’s most advanced Smart Electricity Meters. The smart meter monitors energy consumption, giving information not just through a traditional power ... > full story -
Paving The Way Towards Optical Sensing Foils
October 7, 2008 — Scientists have made the first functional optical links embedded in a flexible substrate. The links include optical waveguides, light sources, and detectors. With this technique, it becomes possible ... > full story -
New Robotic Repair System Will Fix Ailing Satellites
October 2, 2008 — Researchers are developing a new robotic system to service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations. Currently, when the ... > full story -
Baseball: Head-first Slide Is Quicker
October 1, 2008 — With baseball playoffs heating up and the World Series right around the corner, it's guaranteed that fans will see daring slides, both feet-first and head-first, and even slides on bang-bang plays at ... > full story -
Hot Laptops: Engineers Aim To Solve 'Burning' Computer Problem
October 1, 2008 — "Laptops are very hot now, so hot that they are not 'lap' tops anymore," says Avik Ghosh, an assistant professor of computer and electrical engineering at the University of Virginia. "If we continue ... > full story -
Your Robotic Friend, The Humanoid Robot
October 1, 2008 — Robots can take any shape or form and with the explosion in European research and development for every imaginable robot application, there are dozens of completely different designs. Why, then, do ... > full story -
Nanotechnology And Synthetic Biology: Americans Don't Know What's Coming
October 1, 2008 — Almost half of US adults have heard nothing about nanotechnology, and nearly nine in 10 Americans say they have heard just a little or nothing at all about the emerging field of synthetic biology, ... > full story -
A Robot In Every Home?
September 30, 2008 — Observers like Bill Gates believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are creating designs that could become the robo-butler of the ... > full story -
Robots: The Bizarre And The Beautiful
September 30, 2008 — The future is a foreign country, and nowhere is it more foreign that the designs thrown up by a surge in robotics research. The feverish imagination and creativity of European robot scientists has ... > full story -
Voice-Commanded Robot Wheelchair Finds Its Own Way
September 29, 2008 — A new kind of autonomous wheelchair under development can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal ... > full story
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