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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Databases are the backbone of the Web. If you have every read stories on Yahoo!, shopped on Amazon, booked a flight on Kayak, posted on Facebook or Twitter, or downloaded a song from iTunes, you have used those databases. Most major websites maintain huge databases for everything from inventory and customer reviews, to seat availability on flights, to photos and comments. Almost any transaction on any major site, be it shopping, travel,...
New Technology May Solve Longtime Joining Challenge and Improve Reactor Safety COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- EWI, the innovation leader in materials joining and allied technologies, announced today that its silicon carbide (SiC) joining samples have emerged stable from six months of aggressive irradiation and water flow testing in the core of MIT's research nuclear reactor in Cambridge, MA. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110908/DC64441LOGO)...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, or LMBC, a clean technology company working to commercialize an innovative electricity storage solution, unveiled its new name - Ambri. With the input of its employees, industry partners, and investors, Ambri is launched as a reflection of the Company's core culture and principal purpose to bring a low-cost, reliable and long-lasting grid-scale battery to market. (Logo:...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online MIT scientists say a new two-dimensional material may be able to open up a plethora of future applications. Reporting in the journal Nano Letters published online this month, researchers say they have already succeeded in making a variety of electronic components out of a new material similar to the one-atom graphene, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), Tomás Palacios, the Emmanuel E. Landsman Associate Professor of EECS and a...
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced that Eben Upton, Broadcom Technical Director, Mobile and Wireless Group, has been recognized by MIT's Technology Review as a TR35 Honoree for 2012. The TR35 recognizes the world's top innovators under the age of 35, spanning biotechnology, computer and electronics hardware and software, energy,...
New process developed at MIT could enable better LED displays, solar cells and biosensors — and foster basic physics research. Films made of semiconductor nanocrystals — tiny crystals measuring just a few billionths of a meter across — are seen as a promising new material for a wide range of applications. Nanocrystals could be used in electronic or photonic circuits, detectors for biomolecules, or the glowing pixels on high-resolution display screens. They also hold promise for more...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Some MIT engineers have taken the old cliche “Good things come in small packages” to heart, creating a rocket thruster no larger than an American penny or postage stamp. These thrusters, which operate on jets of ion beams, could soon power some of the tiniest satellites in space. These “micro thrusters” were created by Paulo Lozano, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. According to the MIT...
/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. ANY FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS RESTRICTION MAY CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF U.S. SECURITIES LAWS./ VANCOUVER, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Ecuador Gold & Copper Corp. (TSX-V: EGX), (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Mit Tilkov as VP Exploration and the commencement of the First Stage 10,000 metre drill program at its Condor Gold Project located in Ecuador. VP...
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS. For decades, academic and industry researchers have been working on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters — robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guidance. Dozens of research teams have competed in a series of autonomous-helicopter challenges posed by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...
Findings answer puzzling question of how cells know when to progress through the cell cycle It's a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle? In simple organisms such as yeast, cells divide once they reach a specific size. However, determining if this holds true for mammalian cells has been difficult, in part because there has been no good way to measure mammalian cell growth over time. Now, a team of MIT and Harvard Medical School...
