Researchers Developing Handheld Pathogen Detector
Cornell professors are combining their inventions in an effort to develop a handheld pathogen detector for developing world countries. The device works by “amplifying” very…
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Self-Guided Bullet Accurate From One Mile Away
Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a small-caliber, self-guided bullet and have had initial success testing the design in computer simulations and in field…
NASA Reviews Ideas for Greener Aircraft
For the past year, leading aircraft manufacturers, Lockheed Martin, The Boeing Company, and Northrop Grumman, have been trying to meet NASA’s challenge and develop green…
DARPA Seeks Researchers for PERFECT Program
DARPA is looking to further increase processing speed in their intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems and has set up a Proposers’ Day workshop to further…
Physicists Work on Nano Loudspeakers to Make Better MRIs, Quantum Computers
A research team of physicists is hoping to demonstrate through experiment their theory describing how to both detect weak electrical signals and cool electrical circuits…
Superconducting Detectors Could Help Find Gravitational Waves and Extrasolar Planets
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs), which can simultaneously count photons, measure their energy, and record each one’s time of arrival, could eventually replace charge-coupled devices…
Using Lasers to Cool Semiconductors
In a development that could pave the way for efficiently cooling the components of quantum computers, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have successfully used…
Smart Pills Will Track Patients from the Inside Out
Proteus Biomedical’s smart pills, which are pills that include embedded microchips, are set to launch this year in the United Kingdom, with the collaboration of…
OptiQ Ultra Thermal Windows Reduce Energy Loss by up to 40 Percent
Traco and the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy partnered up to developed the new energy efficient OptiQ Ultra Thermal Windows. These windows…
Nanoscale Biological Coating Instantly Stops Bleeding
In a development that could end up saving the lives of soldiers traumatically injured on the battlefield, engineers from MIT have developed a spray coating…
Leaping Lizards Influence Robot Design at UC Berkeley
Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail! University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers – including undergraduate and graduate students – studied…
Australia Stops Sea Shepherd From Using Drones
Back in December, Sea Shepherd was using drones to track the Japanese whaling fleet, giving them an edge in stopping illegal whaling, but now the…
Sleeping On The Job: Russian Rocket Security
As a general rule of thumb, it isn’t a good thing to be sleeping on the job; especially if you are Russian rocket security. It’s…
The Future Of Incandescent Bulbs Not So Bright
Although Congress defunded the January 1st bill, the federal law still exists and the incandescent light bulb may soon be a thing of the past….
Germany’s Solar Power Output Rose By 60% in 2011
Here’s a bit of good news for renewable energy from Germany. The German Solar Industry Association (BSW) says that the nation’s solar power producers have…
“Pollution Glue” May Improve London’s Air Quality
London has had an air quality problem for a long time and now they may have finally found a way to combat air pollution. They…
Recordings by Alexander Graham Bell Restored 130 Years Later
We can now listen to audio recordings made by Alexander Graham Bell 130 years ago. These audio recordings were stored at the Smithsonian Institution for…
Anti-Whaling Activists Use Drone to Track Japanese Fleet
If you have ever watched the TV Show Whale Wars, then you know that the activists who are out there on the seas often have…
