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(Rochester Institute of Technology) The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently awarded Rochester Institute of Technology $2.8 million to design, develop and build a zero-noise detector for the future Thirty Meter Telescope.

The detector's new sensing technology promises to penetrate the darkness of space with the greatest sensitivity ever.

It could also have applications on Earth to improve everything from cell phone cameras to secure communications and surveillance systems.

(Rochester Institute of Technology) Hydrogen may well be the new gasoline. But where's the nearest "gas" station where you can pull up and refuel your energy-efficient vehicle?Will hydrogen stations be strategically convenient -- located on street corners and travel-stop locations around the globe?In a new study, RIT professor James Winebrake and Patrick Meyer consider the number of barriers to overcome before the hydrogen-fuel infrastructure becomes efficient, affordable and publicly accepted.

(Rochester Institute of Technology) The US Department of Energy is funding the development of technology that will aid in the remote observation of power plants to gauge the actual amount of energy produced.

The DOE has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology a total of $1.4 million on two related projects to perfect the detection of observable "signatures" at power plants.

(Rochester Institute of Technology) The forecast for clear skies and smooth sailing for oceanic vessels has been impeded by worldwide concerns of their significant contributions to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that impact the Earth's climate.A new study by professors James Winebrake and James Corbett examines "Emission Tradeoffs among Alternative Marine Fuels: Total Fuel Cycle Analysis of Residual Oil, Marine Gas Oil, and Marine Diesel Oil," in a recent issue of Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association.

(Rochester Institute of Technology) Robots may be the solution for people with disabilities who are struggling to regain the use of their limbs, thanks to a research team that includes engineers and students from Rochester Institute of Technology.

(Rochester Institute of Technology) One of the most powerful eruptions in the universe might have spun an infrared ring around a rare and exotic star known as a magnetar, a highly magnetized neutron star and the remnant of a brilliant supernova explosion signaling the death throes of a massive star.

A paper published in the May 29 issue of Nature announces the detection of the ring around the dead star known as SGR 1900+14.

Observations obtained from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

(Rochester Institute of Technology) Technology that could someday "MapQuest" Mars and other bodies in the solar system is under development at Rochester Institute of Technology's Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory.RIT scientist Donald Figer is developing a new generation of optical/ultraviolet imaging LIDAR detectors that will significantly extend NASA science capabilities for planetary applications by providing 3-D location information for planetary surfaces and a wider range of coverage than the curren

(Rochester Institute of Technology) Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help RIT archaeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past.

In a novel archaeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the most accurate and most detailed landscape map that exists of the southern state of Oaxaca, where the Zapotec people formed the first state-level and urban society in Mexico.

National Geographic funding will help look at how climate and vegetation patterns changed over time.

(Rochester Institute of Technology) What do Fibonacci Numbers, the Golden Ratio and poetry have in common? Patterns and analogies that help us to make new discoveries and comprehend the mysterious, say a mathematician and a poet who have searched their disciplines for points of similarity and areas of overlap for more than 25 years.

Marcia Birken and Anne Coon's unlikely partnership has resulted in a book written for a general audience, Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry.

Sign language interpreting is one of the highest-risk professions for ergonomic injury, according to a new study conducted by Rochester Institute of Technology.

The research indicates that interpreting causes more physical stress to the extremities than high-risk tasks conducted in industrial settings, including assembly line work.