From Ideas to Innovation

A new study published in the journal Nature Materials details a team from Rensselaer Polytechnic that has “developed a new method of creating advanced nanomaterials.”

There are several applications for this technology, including new highly efficient refrigerators and cooling systems with no moving parts. Read the full news release to learn more about this research.

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A partnership between researchers at the University of Wyoming, the University of Notre Dame, and Zhejiang University in China, has led to genetically engineered silkworms to spin silk containing spider silk proteins. “Those fibers are stronger than fibers normally spun by silkworms and almost as tough as spider silk.”

According to the article, the successful genetic engineering of silkworms has attracted worldwide media attention and the team’s research was publicized in the January edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Imagine a smart phone that can determine your mood based on your physical interaction with the phone. Samsung researchers say they have developed such a phone.

The prototype to be presented will “enable people in a social network to view symbols alongside posts that indicate that person’s emotional state.” Read the article here, to find out how certain inputs will be measured to determine a user’s mood

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