Engineering
A new $13-million NSF center based at the University of Michigan will develop high-tech materials that manipulate light in new ways.
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Tufts University chemists have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor, possibly creating a new class of devices.
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Cornell researchers have captured the microscopic origin of thinning and thickening fluids – important for industrial applications.
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Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have coaxed "micro-robots" to do their bidding.
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Scientists are finding ways to incorporate radio antennas directly into clothing, using plastic film and metallic thread.
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Four researchers are proposing an optical delay line that could fit onto a computer chip to make photons behave like electrons.
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Engineers have developed a device platform that mounts directly onto the skin like a temporary tattoo.
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Recognize this mobile phone commercial cliché? Well, you might be hearing it in your lab as this phrase is repeated more and more—not relating to poor cell phone service, but the insides of buildings and laboratories.
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Continuous advances in mobile technology have been changing the way the modern world works. Make last-minute changes to a presentation on your way to a meeting, send reports back to the office while you’re at a conference or trade show, or even input data from an experiment into the LIMS directly at the bench.
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It may be hard to believe, but the beloved gasoline engine that powers more than 200 million cars across America every day...
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn's moon Titan...
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Two Ryerson University undergraduate biomedical engineering students are changing the world of medical prosthetics with a newly developed prosthetic arm that is controlled by brain signals. The Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm not only enables...
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