A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
As computing moves to cloud, UW-Madison spinoff offers…
[caption id="attachment_12278" align="alignnone" width="775"] Graduate student Vijay Thiruvengadam, left, and Karu Sankaralingam, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a prototype board used to explore a new, streamlined approach specifically…
Microrobots inspired by nature
A revolutionary design mimics the rowing action of the cilia on single-celled Paramecium, demonstrating much faster movement than conventional microrobots. [caption id="attachment_12274" align="alignnone" width="2208"] Microrobots offer a wide range of potential treatments in healthcare, from…
Sources in XMM-Newton’s second slew catalogue
[caption id="attachment_12270" align="alignnone" width="625"] Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/ R. Saxton / A.M. Read[/caption] This colourful, seemingly abstract artwork is actually a map of our Galaxy, depicting all the celestial objects that were detected in the XMM-Newton slew…
At Last: Beautiful, consistent carbon belts
Chemists have tried to synthesize carbon nanobelts for more than 60 years, but none have succeeded until now. A team at Nagoya University reported the first organic synthesis of a carbon nanobelt in Science. Carbon…