Credit: SETI Institute
It’s now the biggest single-dish radio telescope on Earth. Settled down in the bumpy karst of China’s Guizhou province, about 1200 miles southwest of Beijing, this newest instrument for studying the heavens is very similar in design to...
Schematic of a transistor with a molybdenum disulfide channel and 1-nanometer carbon nanotube gate.Credit: Sujay Desai/UC Berkeley
For more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the race to shrink the size of components in integrated...
MIT researchers outfitted their cube robot with shock-absorbing "skins" (left) that transfer less than half of the energy that would normally be transferred to the ground.Credit: Image courtesy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anyone who's watched drone videos or an...
Researchers reconstruct house from old Pompeii using 3D technology.Credit: Image courtesy of Lund University
By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before...
Carnegie Mellon University's SIMbot robot uses a motor with just one moving part -- a large ball -- to balance and move in an office environment.Credit: Carnegie Mellon University
More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an...
Stanford postdoc Mehmet Kurt tests an air bag helmet designed to protect bicycle riders from concussions. (Image credit: Kurt Hickman)
Stanford bioengineer David Camarillo knows all too well that bicycling is the leading cause of sports- and activity-related concussion and...
Data of 105 TB were transferred repeatedly every 30min at a high speed (average of 7.2 Gbps) from ITER (France) to REC (Japan) for 50 hours. Credit: Hideya Nakanishi
The National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology...
Sandia National Laboratories researchers are drawing inspiration from neurons in the brain, such as these green fluorescent protein-labeled neurons in a mouse neocortex, with the aim of developing neuro-inspired computing systems to reboot computing. (Photo by Frances Chance, courtesy...
This illustration shows the schematic procedure for the fabrication of a surface-enhanced Raman scattering contact lens via transfer printing.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Houston
Blood testing is the standard option for checking glucose levels, but a new technology could...
A large complex system or network that sustains multiple life forms - such as the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's north coast - would seem to be more likely to be stable to disturbances than a simple one.
Logically, complexity...
UBC’s tall wood building, Brock Commons.Credit: Image courtesy of University of British Columbia
The mass wood structure and façade has been completed for UBC's Brock Commons student residence -- the world's tallest wood building at 18 storeys (53 metres, about...
