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Students to sail the Hudson on a DIY hydrogen-powered ship

Aditi Justa — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:56:56 +0000

Students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have successfully built a boat powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Dubbed as the New Clermont, the vessel will launch from Pier 84 in Manhattan on Monday, September 21. The expedition starting from...

Eco Tech: Rensselaer students build hydrogen-powered ship to cross the Hudson

Anupam — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:37:45 +0000

Eco Factor: Zero-emission DIY ship gets powered by hydrogen fuel cells. A team of students at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are trying to prove the viability of hydrogen fuel cells by sailing from New York City to Troy on a DIY ship...

Lighting device to help the elderly sleep

Atul — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:16:32 +0000

With age the number of problems increases, a common one being the inability to sleep. Elderly adults are the ones that bear the brunt of sleep disturbances, and researchers believe it happens because of a disorder of the circadian rhythms. The...

Polarization-matched LEDs: a brighter, efficient solution for light

Bharat — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:49:07 +0000

CES 2009 was adorned in the green theme of things. Manufacturers took upon themselves to reveal whatever they could under the green tag. LEDs and AMOLEDs ruled all the while, as flexible displays and illumination LED-enabled gadgets lighted Vegas...

New alternative to animal testing found

Arpita Mukherjee — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:12:00 +0000

For long, animal rights activists had been demanding a ban on animal tests by pharmaceutical companies that they consider unethical. More often, the animal specimens are not exact replicas of the human biological features and drugs tested in labs...

Nanoglue: The next generation computer microchips

Er. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:13:27 +0000

We would never believe the notion that glues could ever be fabricated in order to develop computer microchips some years back, but now it is not that hard to imagine with US scientists manufacturing a “Nanoglue” that is 100,000...

Humans Can “See Into the Future”

Rajni — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:23:18 +0000

A new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests that the human visual system is equipped with the ability to foresee the future. Assistant Professor Mark Changizi says that it takes nearly one-tenth of a second for the brain to...

Paper a battery stand-in, for next gen rechargeable energy storage

Bharat — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:29:26 +0000

Lithium-ion batteries are the researchable power storage devices that meet the energy requirements of today’s gizmos, but with all going small to make the gadgets more functional, lithium-ion batteries too fall for nano technology. Putting...

Greensulate: 'Organic-n-sustainable' insulation made from mushrooms

Irani — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:01:56 +0000

The soaring demand for solutions to rising temperatures felt across the world, as well as energy-efficiency in all the consumption spheres, in an effort to turn the world “green” and cap global warming, are in turn increasing the need...

Efficient solar cells possible with nanotechnology

Gautam — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:59:13 +0000

Now get more efficient and brighter solar cells and LEDs with this new class of nanotechnology material. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have developed world’s first material which reflects no light. In this case an optical...