Nano-propellers sent for a spin
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Tiny metallic rods have been turned into miniature "propellers" by a Canadian research team.
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An electrical pulse through nanotubes and wires helps find the crack in an airplane wing while in-flight.
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It could be called a mechanical miracle - a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs...
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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JackBootâ¢? March-o-Maticâ¢? YompBotâ¢? A team of researchers at MIT have developed a rather clever new twist on the conventional powered exoskeleton idea*. Rather than seeking to amplify the strength of the wearer's own muscles, the relatively simple MIT rig is intended merely to transfer the load of a heavy backpack directly to the ground, which allows very low power consumption.â¦
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Nanotechnology is coming to a clothing store near you.
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U.S. physicists have coaxed tiny  artificial atoms into communicating in an advance that may lead  to super-fast quantum computers, the researchers said on  Wednesday.
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NASA scientists announced Monday the successful testing of the first nanotechnology-based electronic device to fly in space.  National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers said the test showed the nanosensor could monitor trace gases inside a spaceship.
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A capsule carrying samples of solar wind was supposed to be plucked out of midair by a helicopter, but its chutes apparently malfunctioned. Amit Asaravala reports from Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.
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Researchers create three-dimensional structures using DNA-directed assembly.
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Teeny pipes. Is there anything they can't do? Aerospace boffins in America have come up with yet another use for carbon nanotubes - to build a self-healing layer into composite structures such as aircraft wings.â¦
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Pentadyne twirls weights in the air, and it makes electricity.
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A ROBOT that will generate its own power by eating flies is being developed by British scientists. The idea is to produce electricity by catching flies and digesting them in special fuel cells that will break
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A military project aimed at building smarter robots has given researchers the wheels they need to make their automatons go.
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MIT's Martin Culpepper shows how to build simple machines that move with nanometer precision.
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Nanowires put more power in smaller packages, researcher reports.
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A new carbon-based nanoscale material could be used to make ultrafast computers.