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Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Iowa State students take a lighter, more autonomous 'lunabot' to NASA competition

Jared Peterson, working away in the Caterpillar Mechatronics Laboratory in Iowa State University's Hoover Hall, recently held up a small electric motor.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The 'living' micro-robot that could detect diseases in humans

A tiny prototype robot that functions like a living creature is being developed which one day could be safely used to pinpoint diseases within the human body.

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Analyzing life on a molecular level

Three faculty members in USC Dornsife’s Department of Biological Sciences received research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and apply innovative methods to analyze data ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Sandia seeks better neural control of prosthetics for amputees

Sandia National Laboratories researchers, using off-the-shelf equipment in a chemistry lab, have been working on ways to improve amputees’ control over prosthetics with direct help from their own nervous ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chicago asked not to stifle wireless at summits

(AP) -- Protesters are coming by the thousands to Chicago, armed with smartphones, video cameras and social media links that will allow them to instantly map strategy, share plans and disseminate images of ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Songbird brain synapses and glial cells capable of synthesizing estrogen

Colin Saldanha, a biology professor at American University in Washington, D.C., has always been intrigued by the hormone estrogen. Specifically, how the hormone that does so much (for example, it promotes sexual behavior ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The interplay of dancing electrons

Negative ions play an important role in everything from how our bodies function to the structure of the universe. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a new method that makes it possible ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Microsoft engineer envisions computers that adapt to us

For decades, we controlled computers with a mouse and keyboard. The plastic mouse became a prosthetic for our hand, and the keyboard an extension of our fingers.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stockholm Convention scientists seek ban on chemical

Scientists at the Stockholm Convention, which interdicts dangerous chemicals, said on Friday they will recommend the banning of a flame retardant commonly used in polystyrene.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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