GE Intelligent Platforms has purchased SmartSignal, a company started by the University of Chicago based on technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
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GE Acquires Argonne-UChicago Start-up SmartSignal, by Eleanor Taylor
Friday, January 7th, 2011Solar Cells – Brian Albert
Thursday, January 6th, 2011Why aren’t we using solar technology already?
Move Things With Your Mind… With the Help of Wearable Robots, by Minna Krejci
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011The idea for the use of the robot came from what is known about how the brain usually controls movement of the body. Imagine moving your arm: first, your brain tells your arm where to go. As your arm moves, nerves in your arm relay information back to the brain about the arm’s position.
Age doesn’t matter: New genes are as essential as ancient ones
Monday, January 3rd, 2011New genes that have evolved in species as little as one million years ago — a virtual blink in evolutionary history — can be just as essential for life as ancient genes, startling new research has discovered. University of Chicago
Your Heart in 3D
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010At the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in November, Lang and colleagues presented several exciting new uses of 3D Echo to improve surgical procedures and patient outcomes.
Dark matter hunt Deepens at Ont. Mine, by Emily Chung
Friday, December 3rd, 2010University of Chicago researcher Juan Collar and his collaborators at the Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP) think they may have a way to make dark matter show itself.
Dark–Matter Search Plunges Physicists to New Depths, University of Chicago News
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010The team is deploying a 4–kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab, which is part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Canada. A second 60–kilogram chamber will follow later this year. Scientists anticipate that dark matter particles will leave bubbles in their tracks when passing through the liquid in one of these chambers.
Mudball Earth
May 6, 2010The idea that millions of years ago the earth was a frozen planet with mountains of towering ice and blankets of snow hundreds of feet thick is not a new one, but is that really how our world once looked? Two Geophysicists from the University of Chicago don’t think so.
