TechAndComputer (Aug. 6, 2012) When you're just a few microns long, swimming can be difficult. At that size scale, the viscosity of water is more like that of honey, and momentum can't be relied upon to maintain forward motion. Share This: See Also: Health & MedicinePharmacologyHuman BiologyMatter & EnergyMaterials ScienceEngineeringComputers & MathMobile ComputingRoboticsStrange Science Reference NanoroboticsMechanical engineeringRobotic surgeryIndustrial robot
Microorganisms, of course, have evolved ways to swim in spite of these challenges, but tiny robots haven't quite caught up. Now a team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has used complex...
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Micro-swimmer robots could deliver cargo and drugs
- 06 August 2012
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Microswimmers: Micron-scale swimming robots could deliver drugs and carry cargo using simple motion
- 06 August 2012
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TechAndComputer (Aug. 6, 2012) When you're just a few microns long, swimming can be difficult. At that size scale, the viscosity of water is more like that of honey, and momentum can't be relied upon to maintain forward motion. Share This: See Also: Health & MedicinePharmacologyHuman BiologyMatter & EnergyMaterials ScienceEngineeringComputers & MathMobile ComputingRoboticsStrange Science Reference NanoroboticsMechanical engineeringRobotic...
Broadening researcher access to protein simulation
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TechAndComputer (Aug. 6, 2012) Using just an upgraded desktop computer equipped with a relatively inexpensive graphics processing card, a team of computer scientists and biochemists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed advanced GPU accelerated software and demonstrated for the first time that this approach can sample biological events that occur on the millisecond timescale. Share This: See Also: Plants & AnimalsBiotechnologyBiochemistry...
Vaporizing Earth in computer simulations to aid search for super-Earths
- 02 August 2012
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TechAndComputer (Aug. 2, 2012) In science fiction novels, evil overlords and hostile aliens often threaten to vaporize Earth. At the beginning of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the officiously bureaucratic aliens called Vogons, authors of the third-worst poetry in the universe, actually follow through on the threat, destroying Earth to make way for a hyperspatial express route. Share This: See Also: Space & TimeExtrasolar PlanetsAsteroids, Comets and...
Data storage: Keeping things in place
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TechAndComputer (Aug. 2, 2012) Fluid dynamics simulations aim to better predict how air circulating in a hard disk drive perturbs the vibrating read/write head. Share This: See Also: Matter & EnergyNature of WaterAviationNanotechnologyComputers & MathDistributed ComputingComputer ModelingComputer ScienceReference AerodynamicsComputer simulationMRAMAutomotive aerodynamics
Engineers rely on sophisticated simulation software to...
Engineers rely on sophisticated simulation software to...