May 14, 2013
Immunostained image of engrafted islet in hydrogel in diabetic mouse. (Red areas are insulin-producing cells. Green areas are blood vessels, and blue areas are DNA nuclei in cells.) (Credit:...
May 9, 2013
With the new control method, Kemp’s robots have performed numerous tasks, such as reaching through dense artificial foliage and a cinder...
April 30, 2013
A network of hundreds or thousands of dissociated mammalian cortical cells (neurons and glia) are cultured on a transparent multi-electrode array. Activity is recorded extracellularly to control the behavior of an...
An array of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals. These arrays are fabricated on...
April 4, 2013
Chimpanzee (credit: Thomas Lersch/Wikimedia Commons)
Humans’ closest animal relatives, chimpanzees, have metacognition — knowing what one knows, according to...
March 27, 2013
Georgia Tech has created a recyclable solar cell on nanocellulose substrates made from trees. Also pictured are vials that contain the different parts...
March 20, 2013
The oscillation of a pendulum offers the simplest example of a Lyapunov function, a central concept in control theory. The pendulum’s loss of energy with each swing guarantees that it won’t lurch into a less...
March 6, 2013
Nano-device hardware architecture (credit: Georgia Tech)
Researchers at Georgia Tech have drawn up blueprints for a wireless antenna made from atom-thin sheets of carbon, or graphene, that could allow terabit-per-second transfer...