Mathematics
Mar 14, 2022
Are conferences worth time and money?
Every year, hundreds of thousands of scientists spend tens of billions of dollars to organize and attend conferences.
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Materials Science
Feb 21, 2022
New material offers remarkable combo of toughness and stretchiness
Researchers have created new materials that are very stretchable and extremely tough.
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2020
Surer signs of life: A better class of tools for detecting signs of life on other planets and moons
When they reached Mars' surface in 1976, NASA's two Viking landers touched down with a gentle thud. At 7 feet tall, 10 feet long, and weighing around 1,300 pounds, these spacecraft—the first U.S. mission to successfully ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2019
Making metallic materials more climate-friendly
Six percent of global CO2 emissions—4.4. billion tonnes per year—are currently produced by the steel and aluminum industry. In an overview article for the journal Nature, Dierk Raabe, Director at the Max-Planck-Institut ...
Materials Science
Jan 3, 2019
Computer program can translate a free-form 2-D drawing into a DNA structure
Researchers at MIT and Arizona State University have designed a computer program that allows users to translate any free-form drawing into a two-dimensional, nanoscale structure made of DNA.
Engineering
Jul 1, 2013
Underwater propulsion from a 3-D printer
Nature inspires creativity: in building a silent propulsion system for boats and water sport devices, researchers used the octopus as their role model. The system can be produced at a low cost and in a single step with a ...
Sep 22, 2004
Panasonic Adds Two Advanced D-snap SD-Card Multifunction Cameras with MPEG4 Video and Music Capabilities
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, today introduced two new D-snap SD video cameras. The models SV-AS30 and SV-AS3 can snap still and moving images, play back video and ...
Hardware
Jun 11, 2019
Preparing scientific applications for exascale computing
Exascale computers are soon expected to debut, including Frontier at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) and Aurora at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), both ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 23, 2023
An unusual crater on Pluto might be a supervolcano
Pluto with a super-cryovolcano? Why not! All the elements are there, just not in the way we normally think of volcanoes. And cryovolcanoes are the reason why Pluto's surface looks the way it does. A recent research paper ...
Education
Nov 7, 2018
Making grad school possible for minorities
Eze Ahanonu was first introduced to engineering in middle school, when he attended Summer Engineering Academy at the University of Arizona. Somewhere in between designing aerodynamic car bodies in SolidWorks, 3-D printing ...
