Technology Review has a video (24 min.) of a recent interview with Emanuel Sachs, 1366 Technologies’ chief technology officer and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He explains the physics…
Read MoreGood news came yesterday to the Nano/Bio Interface Center at the University of Pennsylvania when it learned it won an $11.5 million grant from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers…
Read MoreI just learned that Jose Zayas, manager of the wind energy technology program at Sandia National Laboratories, will be leading a tutorial session on materials and wind energy applications at…
Read MoreFuelCell Energy Inc., a maker of fuel cells for institutional and utility applications, says it will be receiving about $1.9 million from the DOE to develop a part designed to…
Read MoreJin-Ho Phark, an assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, says he has figured out a way to make ceramic crowns adhere better for dental…
Read MoreGlowing Pathfinder Bugs from our good friend squidie on Vimeo. In case you are curious, this project uses a Point Grey Bumblebee stereo camera to capture depth map information from…
Read MoreThe Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, at its international conference in Oxford Belfry, U.K., just gave Bob Campbell, senior publisher at Wiley-Blackwell, its annual award for Contribution to…
Read MoreLawrence Berkley National Lab has been commissioned to beef up the energy efficiency of several federal agencies. A press release from LBNL states that $1.8 million in funding from the…
Read MoreTechnology Review reported that researchers at Cornell University have made a photovoltaic cell out of a single-walled carbon nanotube. They claim it is more energy efficient than conventional photovoltaics. The…
Read MoreSlow going again. The skinny on this week’s activities: Another $393 million added to the pot; $66.7 million was paid out. Department of Energy (5.9% paid out): National Science Foundation…
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