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…
MIT Energy Initiative report provides guidance for evolving…
Experts call for regulatory, policy, and market transformation to realize potential of distributed energy technologies. [caption id="attachment_10914" align="alignnone" width="639"] Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Distributed energy resources — relatively small-scale power technologies such as solar,…
First experimental evidence of 3D aromaticity in stacked…
International collaboration led by Nagoya University uses two-dimensional antiaromatic materials to realize three-dimensional aromatic structures. [caption id="attachment_10911" align="alignnone" width="960"] Antiaromatic planar norcorrole molecules form close face-to-face stacked structures with increased aromaticity. This behavior is quite…
Gene Therapy Shows Early Promise for Treating Parkinson’s
A biotech startup is inching closer to refining a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Voyager Therapeutics is testing an experimental gene therapy that could boost Parkinson’s patients’ responses to levodopa—an old medication that can manage the…
Proba-V images Mount Everest
[caption id="attachment_10904" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA/Belspo – produced by VITO[/caption] Proba-V – ESA’s smallest Earth-observing mission – overflies Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, its peak seen left of centre in this false-colour…