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A team of Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Mechanical Engineering Professor James Hone and Electrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene’s special properties—its mechanical strength and electrical conduction—and created a nano-mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world’s smallest FM radio transmitter.
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Science is running out of new ways to attack harmful bacteria, while drug companies are abandoning antibiotic research and development, according to a University of Adelaide drug expert.
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The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing has announced a new online program in data science.
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Yanliang Zhang wants to make vehicles more efficient by using a resource most people aren’t even aware of — the waste heat that results from the inherent inefficiency of engines when converting fuel into energy.
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Author pens a 3D printing guide for scientists on a budget.
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Scientists collaborate to maximize energy gains from tiny nanoparticles.
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Berkeley Lab study reveals origins of an exotic phase of matter.
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Unexpected behavior in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new approach to information storage and processing.
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To pursue new research and application possibilities for a promising new computational technology – automata computing – the University of Virginia has established a new Center for Automata Computing, with seed funding from, and close collaboration with, the technology’s inventor, Micron Technology Inc.
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories will use their expertise in protein expression, enzyme engineering and high-throughput assays as part of a multiproject, $34 million effort by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) aimed at developing advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.
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