Category: Massachusetts
New Haven, Conn. — There were robotic dinosaurs, a robot that danced and one that played rock-paper-scissors.
Do you sit in a chair all day at work? Does your back hurt from hunching over?
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At-home medical genetics, open-source science, bio-art, do-it-yourself DNA kits — the life sciences are open to the public as never before, and citizen scientists, from gentleman researchers to high school students and hackers, are tinkering with life as they find it.
Dr. Pitu Mirchandani, professor in the School of Computation, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, will give a talk Monday (Oct. 26) at 3 p.m. in Room 203 of the Zachry Engineering Center at Texas A&M University.
Industrial robots have been helping in the factories for a while, but most robots need a complex hand and powerful software to grasp ordinary objects without damaging them.
Researchers from Harvard and Yale Universities have developed a simple, soft robotic hand that can grab a range of objects de
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet; we all know that. But what about a rose smelled by a non-human nose? What would it smell like?
Well, an electronic nose is no Shakespeare, so you'd lose some of the poetry.
The search for renewable power amounts to attempts to mimic, capture or concentrate the energy produced by nature that is swirling around us constantly into something strong enough to power a factory or a car or millions of televisions.
The Music Theory Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will host a one-day conference titled "The Musical Ear" Sept. 26.
The unique conference will be devoted exclusively to issues of ear training and aural skills.
September 14, 2009 - Five of the nation's premier institutions of higher learning - Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley - today announced their joint commitment to a compact for open-access publication.
John W. Ryan, whose 16-year presidency of Indiana University was distinguished by growth and stability, the expansion of international programs and the development of campuses across the state, has been awarded the University Medal, IU's highest nonacademic award.
IU President Michael A.
