Restaurant menu design could impact carbon footprint of dining
A study employing hypothetical restaurant menus suggests that climate-friendly default options and labels indicating the carbon footprint of each dish ...
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Powering the moon: Sandia researchers design microgrid for future lunar base
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is well-known for designing reliable and resilient microgrids for military bases and vital city services. Now, Sandia researchers ...
BMW Group and Pasqal expand collaboration to apply quantum computing to improve car design and manufacturing
Paris, May 11, 2022- Pasqal, the leading manufacturer of neutral atoms quantum processors, today announced a new undertaking with BMW Group ...
New review highlights innovative catalysts: Design and application
Nano-catalysis provides many opportunities for chemical transformations, ranging from chemical manufacturing to energy conversion and storage. By far, mainly due ...
Researchers design simpler magnets for twisty facilities that could lead to steady-state fusion operation
Harnessing the power that makes the sun and stars shine could be made easier by powerful magnets with straighter shapes ...
Inclusive design and research methods will lead to more innovative, intelligent technology
A few years ago, when Carnegie Mellon University design researcher Christina Harrington was still making home visits for her research, ...
Bat box design, placement matter for energy balance in endangered bats
URBANA, Ill. – Imagine if you had to catch every bite of your dinner with your mouth, while flying, in ...
Researchers redefine how liquid and solid layers stick together based on molecular forces New study reveals how intermolecular forces inform the design of smart materials
A recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences redefines how liquids maintain their contact with solid surfaces -also ...
Hands-on approach to learning analog electronics opens design to more students
For decades, electronics has been taught in a "bottom-up" fashion, with students spending years on calculus, physics, linear algebra, differential ...
Revamped design could take powerful biological computers from the test tube to the cell
Tiny biological computers made of DNA could revolutionize the way we diagnose and treat a slew of diseases, once the ...
Design tweak helps prevent malfunction in yarns designed to store energy
In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers found a way to prevent electrical malfunctions in yarns designed to ...
Embodying Design: An Applied Science of Radical Embodied Cognition by Christopher Baber, now available from the MIT Press
In Embodying Design (on sale March 22, 2022 from the MIT Press), author Christopher Baber looks to rethink design. Baber—who ...
Novel theory of entropy may solve materials design issues
A challenge in materials design is that in both natural and manmade materials, volume sometimes decreases, or increases, with increasing ...
Developing design tools for outer space structures
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Achieving affordable space exploration will require lightweight structures for vehicles, solar arrays and antennas. Lightweight materials ...
Chemical reaction design goes virtual
Researchers aim to streamline the time- and resource-intensive process of screening ligands during catalyst design by using virtual ligands. Credit: ...
Giant Magellan Telescope Awards IDOM final design of its telescope enclosure
PASADENA, CA — The Giant Magellan Telescope today announced they have awarded IDOM, a renowned engineering and architecture firm based ...
UCF and NASA researchers design charged ‘power suits’ for electric vehicles and spacecraft
ORLANDO, March 7, 2022 – Like the charged power suit worn by Black Panther of Marvel Comics, UCF researchers have ...
NASA’s robotic OSAM-1 mission completes its critical design review
NASA’s On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1), a mission that will be the first to robotically refuel a satellite not designed ...
The physics of fire ant rafts could help engineers design swarming robots
Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating ...
“Hotspot mapping” accelerates early-phase drug design
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), Cambridge, UK— 2 March 2022 — The amount of structural data on protein drug targets ...
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New study shows snacking on mixed tree nuts may impact cardiovascular risk factors and increase serotonin
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Is brain learning weaker than artificial Intelligence?
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A fairy-like robot flies by the power of wind and light
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Study finds women and men are equally effective at wage-labor negotiations
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This groundbreaking biomaterial heals tissues from the inside out