Science
Producing electricity at estuaries using light and osmosis
Credit: istock Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar...
Sandia launches a bus into space
HOT SHOT sounding rocket program picks up flight paceCredit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories recently launched...
Good fellows: 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows announced
How can the neuroscience behind emotion lead to new concepts of artificial intelligence? How does the human brain make fast...
Artificial atomic scale materials: Discovering how electrons fatten!
A single and isolated electron has a clear electrical charge, magnetic moment and mass, and its free movement can be...
New flatland material: Physicists obtain quasi-2D gold
Credit: Ella Maru Studio Researchers from the MIPT Center for Photonics and 2D Materials have synthesized a quasi-2D gold film,...
The new quadruped robot HyQReal tested by pulling 3 tons airplane
Credit: IIT/Illusion Video Production Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia presented at ICRA 2019 - the International Conference on Robotics...
Interactive quantum chemistry in virtual reality
Credit: Intangible Realities Laboratory (University of Bristol) Scientists from the University of Bristol's Intangible Realities Laboratory (IRL) and ETH Zurich...
Producing tissue and organs through lithography
EU Project BRIGHTER sets its sights on 3D bioprinting systems with light sheet lithographyCredit: F. Pampaloni, BRIGHTER, 2019 FRANKFURT. The...
Lithium-ion battery inventor wins world’s oldest scientific prize
UT's Professor John Goodenough, inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has been awarded the Royal Society of London's Copley MedalCredit: Cockrell...
Researchers gain key insight into solar material’s soaring efficiency
How the performance of cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells is improved by the addition of seleniumCredit: First Solar The rows...
Robots activated by water may be the next frontier
Columbia University scientists develop material that can drive mechanical systemsCredit: Ozgur Sahin Laboratory New research from the laboratory of Ozgur...
DOD awards Pitt, CMU contracts to create an autonomous robotic trauma care system
Credit: National Robotics Engineering Center and Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, May 22, 2019 - The University of Pittsburgh School of...
Soft, social robot brings coziness to homes — and classrooms
ITHACA, N.Y. - A new social robot that can be customized with handcrafted material, such as wood and wool, brings...
TACC Ranch technology upgrade improves valuable data storage
Quantum, Data Direct Networks add capabilities for over 52,000 Ranch usersCredit: TACC There's a joke by comedian Steven Wright that...
IEEE Communications Society honors research by NYU communication theory researchers
Papers by the originator of Massive MIMO Thomas L. Marzetta and cooperative networking pioneer Elza Erkip win best paper awards...
Subtropical Storm Andrea gone girl
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Subtropical Storm Andrea was gone before the storm could...
New data on ultrafast electron photoemission from metallic nanostructures obtained
The results of the Russian-Japanese experiment explain the mechanism of electron photoemission by metallic nanostructures under ultrafast laser excitation The...
Examining ethical issues surrounding wearable brain devices marketed to consumers
Wearable brain devices are now being marketed directly to consumers and often claim to confer benefits like boosting memory and...
Charging into the future — novel rock salt for use in rechargeable magnesium batteries
A unique method to use novel rock salt in rechargeable magnesium batteriesCredit: Tokyo University of Science Life today depends heavily...
New study shows crowdsourced traffic data could save lives
App-users post crash alerts minutes before they are reported to CHP A new University of California, Irvine-led pilot study finds,...