How social media data mining could shape the products of tomorrow
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have developed a way to analyse online consumer reviews and social media to help designers create better informed products.
View ArticleA new computer model explores how proteins are controlled 'at a distance'
EPFL scientists have created a new computer model that can help better design of allosteric drugs, which control proteins "at a distance".
View ArticleNASA wind tunnel tests X-plane design for a quieter supersonic jet
Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality as NASA and Lockheed Martin begin the first high-speed wind tunnel tests for the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane...
View ArticleNew patterns emerge when the temperature changes
Imagine a single-coloured piece of cloth that suddenly displays a colourful pattern when the ambient temperature changes. Upon further temperature change, a completely different pattern shows up.
View ArticleNew software tools streamline DNA sequence design-and-build process
Synthetic DNA allows scientists to expand the breadth and depth of their genomic research. In this study researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) have developed a...
View ArticleImpact of wobbly bridges and skyscrapers on human health tested in...
The impact of vibrations from very tall buildings and wobbly bridges and floors on people's health and wellbeing is to be researched in a new £7.2 million government-funded national research facility.
View ArticleLab researchers boost truck fuel efficiency through improved aerodynamics
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers, as part of a Navistar SuperTruck I team, helped design a new type of tractor trailer truck that improves fuel economy by 124 percent, compared...
View ArticleResearchers discover new type of memory effect in transition metal oxides
Transition metal oxides (TMO) are extensively studied, technologically important materials, due to their complex electronic interactions, resulting in a large variety of collective phenomena. Memory...
View ArticleProtecting web users' privacy
Most website visits these days entail a database query—to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses.
View ArticleFlowing transition between design and simulation
The individualized mass production up to the individual item is a promise of the future delivered by Industrie 4.0. It can only be implemented if there are suitable test methods for the feasibility of...
View ArticleSharing expert experimental knowledge to expedite design
A reference tool specific to metabolic engineering that optimizes processes to make cells produce useful substances gives researchers a common language and will facilitate novel designs.
View ArticleLegos and origami inspire next-generation materials
Inspired by the fun of playing with Legos, an international team of researchers from Tianjin University of Technology and Harvard University have used the idea of assembling building-blocks to make the...
View ArticleDesigning cities to withstand natural disasters
What happens after Cyclone Debbie is a familiar process. It has been repeated many times in cities around the world. The reason is that our cities are not designed for these types of events.
View ArticleBiochemical superglue opens new approach to vaccine development
An Oxford University spinout company is developing a molecular superglue for the rapid development of vaccines targeting a range of diseases.
View ArticleMulti-university effort to advance materials, define the future of mobility
Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science discovery program launched by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Provided over four years,...
View ArticleAlgorithms can exploit human perception in graph design
Scatterplots are widely used in various disciplines and areas beyond sciences to visually communicate relationships between two data variables. Yet, very few users realize the effect the visual design...
View ArticleInfrared instrument for world's largest solar telescope catches its first rays
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), currently under construction on Haleakala, Maui, is expected to start observing the Sun in 2020. When it does, it will rely on two complex infrared...
View ArticleManaging complexity: Novel protein folding tool vastly simplifies...
(Phys.org)—Protein folding is the process by which a polypeptide (a linear organic polymer chain consisting of many amino acid residues, or monomers) transforms from a random coil into the 3D...
View ArticleSolar cell design with over 50% energy-conversion efficiency
Solar cells convert the sun's energy into electricity by converting photons into electrons. A new solar cell design could raise the energy conversion efficiency to over 50% by absorbing the spectral...
View ArticleCities are complex systems – let's start looking at them that way
The way we design our cities needs a serious rethink. After thousands of years of progress in urban development, we plateaued some 60 years ago. Cities are not safer, healthier, more efficient, or more...
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