(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, ...
Engineering
Sep 6, 2010
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Biofilms may no longer have any solid ground upon which to stand.
Materials Science
Jul 30, 2012
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Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, lasers in which ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 13, 2009
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Last summer, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) announced a new, flat lens that could focus light with high efficiency within the visible spectrum. The lens used an ...
Nanophysics
Feb 8, 2017
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A new study from Harvard University and the Field Museum of Natural History sheds light on how and when changes in the spine happened in mammal evolution. The research reveals how a combination of developmental changes and ...
Evolution
Feb 3, 2020
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3D printing is revolutionizing the production of lightweight structures, soft robots and flexible electronics, but the technology struggles with complex, multimaterial integration.
Engineering
Sep 21, 2015
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Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School have developed a method for inducing magnetic sensitivity in an organism that is not naturally magnetic—yeast. ...
Biotechnology
Feb 28, 2012
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The first thousand-robot flash mob has assembled at Harvard University.
Robotics
Aug 14, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard physicists have expanded the possibilities for quantum engineering of novel materials such as high-temperature superconductors by coaxing ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice -- a light crystal ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 14, 2011
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The hydrogens—hydrogen and its isotopes—are the simplest and most abundant of the elements in the universe. Conceptually hydrogen, with a single proton and electron is the simplest atomic system in the periodic table ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 21, 2016
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