Science and Technology

A simpler and more reliable manufacturing method has allowed two materials researchers from the University at Buffalo to produce nanoscale magnetic sensors that could increase the storage capacity of hard disk drives by a factor of 1,000.

The difference in weight between two passenger vehicles, it turns out, is not the only "killer" factor in a head-on collision. Researchers in the University at Buffalo's Center for Transportation Injury Research have found that even when a passenger car weighs more than an SUV, passengers in the car remain at higher risk of dying in a head-on collision than passengers in the SUV.

The University at Buffalo's Poetry/Rare Books Collection has received the first grant to be awarded to the university from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has given $170,000 to support development of an online scholarly edition of James Joyce's novel "Ulysses."

University at Buffalo scientists have discovered a promising new drug lead that works by inhibiting the sophisticated bacterial communication system called quorum sensing.

Research by a University at Buffalo planetary geologist suggests that generally accepted estimates about the geologic age of surfaces on Mars -- which influence theories about its history and whether or not it once sustained life -- could be way off.

As the world moves into the information age, the international telecommunications network has become denser, more centralized and more highly integrated -- signs that point to globalization and an increase in Western cultural and economic influence. A study by an internationally recognized communication expert at the University at Buffalo, however, suggests that the decades-long tendency toward Internet dominance by the United States, Canada and Western Europe may be changing as the regions of the world begin to cluster into mutual-interest groups.

A University at Buffalo chemist has developed a new, high-throughput method for obtaining nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data that not only has the distinction of potentially performing orders of magnitude faster than conventional methods, but does so more cheaply and with greater precision.

To prevent your car from spinning out on an icy roadway, is it better to turn the steering wheel toward or away from the direction of a skid? Mechanical engineers from the University at Buffalo -- using a virtual-reality driving simulator and human subjects -- are addressing this annual winter-weather question and are developing new technologies that one day may help drivers proceed safely in bad weather.

They wouldn't be science librarians if they didn't love science and the sciences team in the University at Buffalo Libraries has some holiday gift suggestions for the science teacher or budding Niels Bohr dear to your heart.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo now are able to "meet" with colleagues across the state or across the globe without ever leaving campus using a new Access Grid node -- the first such facility at an academic institution in New York State -- in UB's Center for Computational Research. The center also is home to a new tiled-display wall, measuring 88 square feet, that displays visual information at 20 times the resolution of conventional large-format display screens and permits scientific visualizations in larger-than-life proportions.