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With inexpensive chemical base, variety of materials could be as limitless as proteins are Researchers hoping to design new materials for energy uses have developed a system to make synthetic polymers — some would say plastics — with the versatility of nature’s own polymers, the ubiquitous proteins. Based on an inexpensive industrial chemical, these synthetic

A terrible future could be on the horizon, a future which rips one of the greatest tools of medicine out of the hands of doctors. A simple cut to your finger could leave you fighting for your life. Luck will play a bigger role in your future than any doctor could. The most basic operations

Amherst College Physicists Create Synthetic Magnetic Particle Nearly 85 years after pioneering theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicted the possibility of their existence, an international collaboration led by Amherst College Physics Professor David S. Hall ’91 and Aalto University (Finland) Academy Research Fellow Mikko Möttönen has created, identified and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles in Hall’s laboratory

Arrays of tiny conical tips that eject ionized materials could fabricate nanoscale devices cheaply Luis Fernando Velásquez-García’s group at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) develops dense arrays of microscopic cones that harness electrostatic forces to eject streams of ions. The technology has a range of promising applications: depositing or etching features onto nanoscale mechanical devices;

Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently available models, could be made possible by replacing silicon with materials that can switch back and forth between different electrical states. As demand for faster computers continues to increase, we are rapidly reaching the limits of silicon’s capabilities Stephen Elliott

Unlike some other AIVs, it doesn’t require floor magnets, navigational beacons, or any other modifications to its environment If you’re in charge of a parts warehouse, a distribution center, or some other big building full of things that need to be moved around, the Adept Lynx might be just what you need. Made by California-based

EVERYTHING about space flight is superlative. Even relatively modest rockets are hundreds of feet high. The biggest (the Saturn V, which launched astronauts to the Moon) remains the most powerful vehicle ever built. But space flight is superlatively expensive, too. One reason is that, for all their technological sophistication, rockets are one-shot wonders. After they

We ran the first National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class October to December 2011. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks, turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. 19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. Watching the final presentations it was clear that the

“Takes us closer to an expanded-DNA biology that will have many exciting applications—from new medicines to new kinds of nanotechnology.” Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA “letters,” or bases, not found in nature. The cells of this unique bacterium can replicate

People are often shocked or surprised at the large web of trackers that appear A new Firefox extension called Collusion allows users to visualize trackers as they browse the web. A lot of sites contain a form of a tracker that can follow and record your browsing habits. Most trackers are harmless, but some of