32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...ning an immobilized noble-metal catalyst to enable compact proton exchange membrane fuel cells with superior ...r transistors and power control circuitry within a compact prototype SiC power module for potential use in commercially available hybrid electric vehicles and ...Plants provide model for new shape-changing materials
...produce large shape changes. An example might be a compact container that will deploy into an antenna after it is transported to a particular location," Leo said. "Biological systems are excellent templates for the development of high-performance engineering platforms. An understanding of how biological sys...NIH awards Emory and Georgia Tech $10 million for partnerships in cancer nanotechnology
...ical properties due to their size and their highly compact structure. "The goal of this exploratory program is to develop a new class of bioconjugated quantum dots that can both image and target single-molecule processes in single living cells," said Dr. Nie. "Quantum dots have novel properties, including...Mice thrive despite massive genetic makeover
...s were genetically engineered to contain the newly compact mouse genome. Mice were subsequently generated from these stem cells. The research team then compared the resulting mice with the abridged genome to mice with the full-length version. A variety of features were analyzed, ranging from viability, gro...Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
...ing the world in hyperspectral vision CHRIS is a compact hyperspectral imager that can return detailed data...al payload The other imager on board Proba is the compact HRC, which has an even higher spatial resolution of five metres, acquiring monochromatic images with...UCI researchers use human embryonic stem cells to aid spinal cord injury repair
...tches of myelin's basic protein, and they observed compact myelin tissue wrapping around neurons in the spinal cord. These studies demonstrated that the oligodendrocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells can function in a living system. Results of this study are published online in the peer-reviewed j...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...nimal observers" have now been recruited, carrying compact electronic tags, some recording data for future retrieval, others revealing animal movements across the Pacific in near real time. Scientists have observed the transoceanic journeys of tuna from Mexico to Japan, followed salmon sharks on two-year mig...Study in Royal Society journal on possible genetic factors in social responsiblity
...stress intensity factor are obtained in explicitly compact formulations. The solutions have accounted for the contributions of all diffracted waves generated from two crack tips. Numerical results for the time history of shear stresses and stress intensity factors during the transient process are calculated ...A complex agricultural society in Uruguay's La Plata basin, 4,800-4,200 years ago
...s region of southern South America. The formal and compact layout of the central part of the site (Inner Precinct) consists of seven imposing platform mounds surrounding a central plaza area. Iriarte extracted a sediment core from nearby wetlands to reconstruct what the environment was like when this farmin......aying the foundation for the production of simple, compact and robust lasers with high beam quality. The low efficiency of conventional fibre lasers in the past restricted them to use for amplification in communications networks. It was not until the work done by Andreas Tnnermann that it became possible to ...Emory researchers find more evidence for children's growth spurts, pain
...imal is standing, walking or running, pressure may compact the plate, inhibiting growth, Lampl explains.......eaming - ever since the discovery of lasers - of a compact laboratory source emitting X-rays in one direction...-like X-rays at a wavelength of 1 nanometer with a compact laboratory apparatus [Nature 433, 596 (2005)] in an experiment in Vienna, funded by the Austrian Sci...Bipedal bots to star at AAAS media briefing
...se as little as one-half the wattage of a standard compact fluorescent bulb. "The biped walking mechanism in robots is limited by on-board battery power," says Junku Yuh, NSF expert on intelligent systems, who also oversaw the research. "The Cornell team's passive mechanism helps greatly reduce the power re...Virginia Tech patents advance microprocessors, vaccines, vision, vibration control, more
...iple frequency bands simultaneously. The wideband, compact (WC-PIFA) is just such an antenna. It evolved from the Planar Inverted F- Antenna that has been widely used for many years, but which is large and has limited bandwidth, about 10 percent. The WC-PIFA has 50 percent bandwidth and is very compact, perm...Harvard, Texas A&M scientists develop new laser
... devices and semiconductor injection lasers with a compact design, and may one day lead to wide-ranging appli...ir work will lead to a new generation of "tunable" compact lasers that can operate at almost any wavelength of the invisible light spectrum, including the Tera...Drezek wins Beckman Young Investigator Award
...nt," Drezek said. "We want to make this technology compact and inexpensive enough for use in hospitals, clinics and practioners' offices." Drezek is the third Rice faculty member to receive the Beckman Young Investigator award while at Rice. Previous winners are Vicki Colvin, professor of chemistry and of ch...Plastic extraction disks make it easier to test levels of atrazine in field crops
... crops. Wide acceptance has been building for the compact plastic disks over glass containers which are used to collect water samples and determine threatening levels of pesticide runoff. Experts say the glass containers were prone to break during transit from field to the laboratory, and have allowed chem...Royal Society study on adaptability of fish to warming oceans
...we should check ahead in advance before changing a compact disk, otherwise we can crash easily. Detecting objects in their path is a fundamental perceptional function of moving organisms. Contact: Dr Tomonari Akamatsu, Fisheries Information Science Division, National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineeri...NIH awards Georgia Tech/Emory $11.5 M for nano cardiology research
...ical properties due to their size and their highly compact structure. Quantum dot based probes can act as markers for specific proteins and cells and can be used to study protein-protein interactions in live cells or to detect diseased cells. These ultra-sensitive probes may help cardiologists understand the...DOE JGI announces 2006 Community Sequencing Program portfolio
... millet, and sugarcane. Sorghum, with a relatively compact genome of approximately 736 million bases, will serve as a valuable reference for analyzing the four-fold larger genome of maize, the leading U.S. fuel ethanol crop. Sorghum is an even closer relative of sugarcane, arguably the most important biofuel...