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Nov 25, 2013
Sharrows on Steroids
Boston installs "sharrows on steroids," a new way of marking lanes shared by bikes and cars, invented by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Peter Furth. Dr. Furth received a Ph.D. degree in […]
Nov 21, 2013
Robotic inspectors on disaster duty
In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake in Japan initiated a tsunami that wreaked havoc across the coast of the island nation. The most infamous damage occurred when the Fukushima Daichii […]
Nov 21, 2013
To treat cancer, is the force strong with nanorobots?
Every day, more than 20,000 people around the world succumb to cancer, according to statistics compiled by the World Health Organization. Thousands more continue to suffer through treatment and its […]
Nov 20, 2013
A sustainable breeding ground for collaboration
A complex structure the size of a shoebox perched on a table’s edge in Curry Student Center Ballroom on Monday evening. The 3-D printed construction resembled a series of tiny, […]
Nov 20, 2013
A better motor for the Mars Rover
In the world of robotics, identifying actuators that are strong and compact is probably one of the most important open technological problems yet to be resolved. More often than not, […]
Nov 18, 2013
Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei’s research paper reaches top 10 downloaded articles in JOSA B
Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei and colleagues’ research paper reaches the top ten downloaded articles in JOSA B. The paper focused on Metasurfaces Nanoantennas for Light Processing.
Nov 06, 2013
Hey, bacteria are individuals too
Each person carries 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells, the former of which have continued to evolve in response to medicine’s most potent antibiotics. But microscopic bugs […]
Nov 05, 2013
A soda explosion of knowledge
To explain the concept of nanotechnology to a group of high school students, Thomas Webster, professor and chair of Northeastern’s Department of Chemical Engineering, pulled out a pack of Mentos. And […]