Technology

User Clickstreams Lead To A 'Map Of Science'

While science is of tremendous societal importance, it is difficult to probe the often hidden world of scientific creativity. Most studies of scientific activity rely on citation data, which takes a while to become available because both the cited publicat ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2009 - 12:36pm

Bumper Cars Plus Basketball On Steroids Equals Awesome Robotics Competition

Sixty-one teams from Southern California, Arizona, Brazil and Chile faced off in the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition on March 13 and 14. JPL sponsored nine of the schools in this annual engineering and technology contest held at the Long Be ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2009 - 9:28pm

Smart Windows Detect Suspicious Activity

A novel motion sensor developed by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm and for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin could  enable window panes and glass doors to detect movements, thanks to a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2009 - 10:00am

When Micro-Cyborgs Attack!

Half-biological and half-synthetic, an army of thousands of wrecking balls are contained within Dr. Metin Sitti's Carnegie Mellon laboratory.  Once incited, they keep moving to the death.  They run on sugar.  And they can all be taken down by penicill ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Mar 20 2009 - 9:34am

"Feel" the movies with this new jacket

If I were Hugh Hefner, I'd be all over this company, trying to invest. Researchers from Philips Electronics are developing a vibrating jacket to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer’s emotional response to what the characters are experiencing ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 20 2009 - 10:43am

A Design Revolution- Making Products Reliable Again

There was once a theory in manufacturing and business; 'planned obsolescence.'  If you didn't make products with limitations, no one would ever buy new ones. Then along came a bunch of Asian companies who made better products and American ma ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2009 - 9:44am

Eaten Alive: Massive Swarm Consumes Hopes

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Article - Heidi Henderson - Apr 30 2009 - 2:44pm

Nanofabrication Eats Bugs Like You For Breakfast

Cicadas might have used their wily prime number scheme to dodge 2 and 4 year predators, but what about a predator with continual exponential growth?  The microcircuitry industry has reliably doubled the density of transistors on a chip every 2 years, as ob ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Mar 31 2009 - 1:19pm

If You Can Never Hear In An Airport, These FFL Loudspeakers May Help

A groundbreaking new loudspeaker, less than 0.25mm thick, has been developed by University of Warwick engineers, it's flat, flexible, could be hung on a wall like a picture, and its particular method of sound generation could make public announcements ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2009 - 10:57am

Now Playing- Live Action Movie Of Individual Carbon Atoms

Can't wait for the next Star Trek movie?    Okay, this doesn't have Zoe Saldana but it's still pretty terrific-  the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving along the edge of a graphene crystal. Given that graphene,  single-layered sheets of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2009 - 12:41pm