Stable Way to Store the Sun's Heat: Storing Thermal Energy in Chemical Could Lead to Advances in Storage and Portability

Stable Way to Store the Sun's Heat: Storing Thermal Energy in Chemical Could Lead to Advances in Storage and Portability

  9:28:00 AM    Science Lover

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Researchers at MIT have revealed exactly how a molecule called fulvalene diruthenium, which was discovered in 1996, works to store and release heat on demand. This understanding, reported in a paper published on Oct. 20 in the journal Angewandte Chemie, should make it possible...

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Robotic Gripper Runs on Coffee ... and Balloons

Robotic Gripper Runs on Coffee ... and Balloons

  9:03:00 AM    Science Lover

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The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this "gripping" mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional...

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Brain Regions Can Switch Functions in Young

Brain Regions Can Switch Functions in Young

  1:52:00 AM    Science Lover

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A new paper from MIT neuroscientists, in collaboration with Alvaro Pascual-Leone at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, offers evidence that it is easier to rewire the brain early in life. The researchers found that a small part of the brain's visual cortex that processes...

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New Mothers Grow Bigger Brains Within Months of Giving Birth: Warmer Feelings Toward Babies Linked to Bigger Mid-Brains

New Mothers Grow Bigger Brains Within Months of Giving Birth: Warmer Feelings Toward Babies Linked to Bigger Mid-Brains

  9:44:00 AM    Science Lover

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Motherhood may actually cause the brain to grow, not turn it into mush, as some have claimed. Exploratory research published by the American Psychological Association found that the brains of new mothers bulked up in areas linked to motivation and behavior, and that...

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Human Brain Can 'See' Shapes With Sound : See No Shape, Touch No Shape, Hear a Shape? New Way of 'Seeing' the World

Human Brain Can 'See' Shapes With Sound : See No Shape, Touch No Shape, Hear a Shape? New Way of 'Seeing' the World

  9:08:00 PM    Science Lover

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Scientists at The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -- The Neuro, McGill University have discovered that our brains have the ability to determine the shape of an object simply by processing specially-coded sounds, without any visual or tactile input. Not only...

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Mysterious Pulsar With Hidden Powers Discovered

Mysterious Pulsar With Hidden Powers Discovered

  7:07:00 PM    Science Lover

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Dramatic flares and bursts of energy -- activity previously thought reserved for only the strongest magnetized pulsars -- has been observed emanating from a weakly magnetised, slowly rotating pulsar. The international team of astrophysicists who made the discovery believe...

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Carbon Dioxide Controls Earth's Temperature, New Modeling Study Shows

Carbon Dioxide Controls Earth's Temperature, New Modeling Study Shows

  10:35:00 AM    Science Lover

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Water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth's greenhouse effect, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling study shows that the planet's temperature ultimately depends on the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide. Various atmospheric components differ...

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Feelings of Love: Effective Pain Relief

Feelings of Love: Effective Pain Relief

  5:52:00 PM    Science Lover

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Intense, passionate feelings of love can provide amazingly effective pain relief, similar to painkillers or such illicit drugs as cocaine, according to a new Stanford University School of Medicine study. Love-induced pain relief was associated with the activation of...

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Microsofts 3-D Strategy Microsoft's Craig Mundie describes how the company's vision of 3-D gaming could extend to all computer interactions.

Microsofts 3-D Strategy Microsoft's Craig Mundie describes how the company's vision of 3-D gaming could extend to all computer interactions.

  10:01:00 AM    Science Lover

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Microsoft has joined the wave of companies betting that 3-D is the next big thing for computing. At a recent talk at MIT, chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie said he sees the technology as an innovation that "will get people out of treating a computer as...

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Apple patents 'anti-sexting' technology

Apple patents 'anti-sexting' technology

  9:06:00 PM    Science Lover

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Apple has patented technology that could be used by parents to prevent their kids from sending sexually explicit text messages -- or "sexting." An Apple patent shows how an anti-sexting application might block messages on the iPhone. The technology, which has not been...

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Large Study Shows : Females Are Equal to Males in Math Skills

Large Study Shows : Females Are Equal to Males in Math Skills

  9:58:00 AM    Science Lover

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The mathematical skills of boys and girls, as well as men and women, are substantially equal, according to a new examination of existing studies in the current online edition of journal Psychological Bulletin. Young women studying mathematics. The mathematical skills...

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A Touch Screen with Texture Electrovibration could make for a better sensory experience on a smooth touch surface.

A Touch Screen with Texture Electrovibration could make for a better sensory experience on a smooth touch surface.

  10:32:00 AM    Science Lover

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Touch screens are ubiquitous today. But a common complaint is that the smooth surface just doesn't feel as good to use as a physical keypad. While some touch-screen devices use mechanical vibrations to enhance users' experiences of virtual keypads, the approach isn't...

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Tiny Creatures: Big Role in Global Carbon Cycle

Tiny Creatures: Big Role in Global Carbon Cycle

  9:55:00 AM    Science Lover

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Two separate research groups are reporting groundbreaking measurements of the fluid flow that surrounds freely swimming microorganisms. Experiments involving two common types of microbes reveal the ways that one creature's motion can affect its neighbors, which in turn...

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