Curiosity knows no bounds. We hunger to understand the world around us through patterns, data, explanations, interpretations, relationships, and more. Our most creative thinkers mine knowledge across disciplines for metaphors, connections, contexts, models, and ideas that can be applied fruitfully in new venues.
By sharing the perspectives of colleagues with different points of view, researchers hone their questions and improve experiments. In fact, the practice of science is predicated on exposing hypotheses and discoveries to open inquiry, analysis, and criticism. Reaching out broadly and working with people with varied backgrounds is the backbone of effective research. It takes advantage of the differences in ways that reveal the consistency and unity in nature.
Rensselaer and IBM Research have launched a multi-year collaboration to pioneer new frontiers in the scientific field of cognitive and immersive systems. The research collaboration will be housed in the newly established Cognitive and Immersive Systems Lab (CISL) in the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.
To learn what different cells do, scientists switch them on and off and observe the effects. There are many methods that do this, but they all have problems: too invasive, too slow, or not precise enough.
According to June Deery, professor in the Department of Communication and Media, reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even for those who are not among the millions who watch.
Two-dimensional phosphane, a material known as phosphorene, has potential application as a material for semiconducting transistors in ever faster and more powerful computers. But there’s a hitch.
Today, the development of clean energy is critical to the economy and the environment of the state and the nation. Recently, the Rensselaer Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) was selected to receive a state grant re-designating the center as part of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) Program.
