Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Rensselaer researchers have created a synthetic “gecko tape” with four times the sticking power of the real thing. Full Article
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June 29, 2007: A study by researchers at Rensselaer, AT&T Labs, and the University of Nevada suggests that an Internet where all traffic is treated identically would require significantly more capacity than one in which differentiated services are offered.
June 14, 2007: Specialized pulsed lasers have been used to inject individual cells with a variety of materials, but little is known about how this might affect them. For the first time, researchers have analyzed this process on living cells and discovered that minor changes in the intensity of the laser could mark the difference between a healthy cell and a dead one.
