03/06/2005

Green diesel: New process makes fuel from plants

College of Engineering researchers have discovered a new way to make a diesel-like liquid fuel from carbohydrates commonly found in plants. Reporting in the June 3 issue of the Journal Science, Steenbock Professor James ...

DNA of prehistoric cave bears sequenced

The genomic DNA sequencing of an extinct Pleistocene cave bear species – the kind of stuff once reserved for science fiction – has been logged into scientific literature thanks to investigators from the U.S. Department ...

Verbal sexual content on TV more powerful than visual images

The attitudes and beliefs that young people have about sex may be more swayed by what they hear on television, rather than what they see, according to a University of Michigan researcher. A recent study by U-M Communications ...

Engineers Find A New Wrinkle in Research

North Carolina State University researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering are exploring the possible benefits of wrinkles – how to create them, how to control them and how to use them. Wrinkles, ...

IBM to Offer 'Statistical Timing' Solutions for Chip Designers

IBM today announced it would market to companies that design advanced integrated circuits a new suite of technology solutions aimed at greatly improving the performance of their chip designs. It is a statistical timing analysis ...

Feelers for insect robots

Many insects sense their way around their immediate surroundings by means of moving feelers. Now research scientists have applied this active spatial recognition of objects to create a new mechatronic type of sensor. It ...

Securing the Internet of things

RFID tags and transponders are spreading like wildfire despite data privacy concerns. To improve RFID technology security, researchers have developed a software platform that connects a wide variety of sensor networks to ...

Baby, you can drive my song

A new University of Southern California computer system lets a user "drive" a piece of music, using a wheel and foot controls. The Expression Synthesis Project (ESP) interface, devised by a team led by Elaine Chew of the ...

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