Mechanical Engineering

Credit: © Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS Aluminum is one of the most promising materials for aeronautics and automobile industry. Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" found a simple and efficient way of…
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Left: A single liquid metal nanodroplet grafted with polymer chains. Right: Schematic of polymer brushes grafted from the oxide layer of a liquid metal droplet. view more  A team of polymer chemists and engineers from Carnegie Mellon…
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Credit: Beamie Young/NIST If you want to make your home as energy-efficient and green as possible, should you use gas or electric for your heating and cooling needs? Gas is the more eco-friendly option--for now--for an energy-efficient…
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HOT SHOT sounding rocket program picks up flight paceCredit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories recently launched a bus into space. Not the kind with wheels that go round and round, but the kind…
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Credit: IIT/Illusion Video Production Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia presented at ICRA 2019 - the International Conference on Robotics and Automation held in Montreal (Canada), the most recent results about the new…
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High humidity and plant moisture combine with cold air and smoke from burning vegetation to form particularly dense fog, but researchers can't predict whenCredit: UC Riverside While prescribed fires are common tools in wildland management,…
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Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Glass coated amorphous microwires are the newest perspective magnetic composite alloys that can be used for the creation of modern high-speed mass storage devices with high recording density…
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UT's Professor John Goodenough, inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has been awarded the Royal Society of London's Copley MedalCredit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin John Goodenough, a University of…
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How the performance of cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells is improved by the addition of seleniumCredit: First Solar The rows of blue solar panels that dot landscapes and rooftops are typically made out of crystalline silicon, the…
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Whether it is working on the computer or playing a card game with the kids - automated driving creates plenty of opportunities for activities while traveling by car. However, these cause discomfort and nausea in some people - a typical…
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Innovation developed in partnership with Sembcorp Design and Construction, and Sembcorp Architects & EngineersCredit: NTU Singapore Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the…
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Credit: Professors Xiaohui (Frank) Zhang, Alparslan Oztekin, Xuanhong Cheng and Edmund Webb III of Lehigh University Under normal, healthy circulatory conditions, the von Willebrand Factor (vWF) keeps to itself. The large and mysterious…
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Researchers are building animal-inspired sensors into the shells of aircraft, carsCredit: Illustration by Taylor Callery WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling "spidey senses" of Spider-Man? They…
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Credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service Putting their own twist on robots that amble through complicated landscapes, the Stanford Student Robotics club's Extreme Mobility team at Stanford University has developed a four-legged…
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