Videos

1366 continues to draw interest of investors, DOE

By / December 21, 2010

Ann’s earlier post regarding the accelerating drop in costs in 2009 and 2010 for installed photovoltaic solar energy systems general jibes with the estimates by Emanual Sachs, of 1366 Technologies/MIT. Sachs…

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Video of the week: Tiger Stone continuous brick road paving machine

By / November 22, 2010

Vanku’s Tiger Stone machine Via, Gizmag and Gizmodo, I found this video of this Dutch-made brick paving machine. I wouldn’t go so far as Gizmodo does in describing this as…

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UPDATE: Video of the week: Chemistry of concrete

By / November 19, 2010

We’ve received a lot of feedback questioning some of the science presented in this video. I forwarded some of the comments on to the producers and requested a response. I…

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Video of the Week: Graphene’s debut on Periodic Table of Videos

By / November 10, 2010

Chemist Martyn Poliakoff of University of Nottingham has featured a graphene edition of the Periodic Table of Videos. The video offers a short introduction of graphene, a reenactment of the…

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Monday material fun: Water on a superhydrophobic carbon nanotube array

By / October 18, 2010

Truly amazing! OSU Materials blog has shared this slow motion film of water droplets falling on a superhydrophobic carbon nanotube array. The video was filmed by Adrianus Aria and Morteza…

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MIT Energy Initiative receives $25M for research and collaboration

By / October 14, 2010

Gerald Schotman, chief technology officer, Royal Dutch Shell, right, signs the agreement with MIT President Susan Hockfield. (Credit: MIT) MIT announced that Shell and MIT today signed an agreement to…

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Monday materials fun: The disappearing glass

By / October 9, 2010

Any theories? (The creators, citoplasmas, do a lot of work in stop-action animation.)

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Video of the week – Aerogels: The materials science of empty space

By / October 6, 2010

This is a great introductory 54-minute video of a lecture presented earlier this year by Alex Gash and Dean Reese as part of Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s excellent Science on Saturday…

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Intriguing scientists and engineers among 2010 MacArthur ‘genius’ Fellows

By / September 29, 2010

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2010. Included in this list is John Dabiri whose work with fluid dynamics we’ve featured several…

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Ceramic tile production falls for first time in sector’s history

By / September 28, 2010

According to a press release from Tile Edizioni, 2009 marked the first year in the tile production sector’s history that production fell. Although Asia’s share of the production and consumption…

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