Improving mid-infrared imaging and sensing
Artificial optical materials could allow cheaper, flatter, more efficient detectors for night vision and other uses.
Keeping the balance: How flexible nuclear operation can help add more wind and solar to the grid
Model finds operating nuclear plants flexibly can reduce electricity costs, increase revenue for nuclear plants, and cut carbon emissions in electric power systems.
Introducing a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to conducting comparative product evaluations
The Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation teams up with the Technology Exchange Lab to produce a toolkit for technology evaluation in global development.
Implantable islet cells come with their own oxygen supply
Device could help insulin-producing cells live longer after transplant and improve treatment of type 1 diabetes.
Study: Health benefits will offset cost of China’s climate policy
A 4 percent reduction per year in carbon dioxide emissions should net $339 billion in health savings in 2030, researchers estimate.
Center for Environmental Health Sciences selects 2018 poster winners
Annual poster session showcases recent work on biological effects of exposure to environmental agents.
Single-cell database to propel biological studies
Whitehead team analyzes transcriptomes for roughly 70,000 cells in planarians, creates publicly available database to drive further research.
Integrating optical components into existing chip designs
Technique would allow addition of optical communication components to existing chips with little modification of their designs.
Gauging the effects of water scarcity on an irrigated planet
Study projects likely impacts on food prices, bioenergy production, and deforestation.
How to bend and stretch a diamond
The brittle material can turn flexible when made into ultrafine needles, researchers find.
For nuclear weapons reduction, a way to verify without revealing
New isotope-detection method could prove compliance but avoid divulging secrets.
Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do
Neuroscientists train a deep neural network to analyze speech and music.
A graphene roll-out
Scalable manufacturing process spools out strips of graphene for use in ultrathin membranes.
Breaking up with political brokers, citizens may find electoral independence
Doctoral student Tesalia Rizzo tests methods for thwarting middlemen who pose a substantial barrier to democratic representation in Mexico and other nations.
A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images
“RoadTracer” system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce workload for developers of apps like Google Maps.