UCI-led team creates new ultralightweight, crush-resistant tensegrity metamaterials
Study shows how century-old design principle can be a pathway to overcoming failureCredit: Jens Bauer and Cameron Crook / UCI ...
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Contactless high performance power transmission
Superconducting coils for contactless power transmission in the kilowatt rangeCredit: Christoph Utschick / Wuerth Elektronik eiSos A team led by ...
Black engineer awards expand Sandia Labs spotlight
Ten pre-eminent problem solvers honored for scientific, community featsCredit: Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received ...
UTA researchers investigating ‘smart’ helmets that could detect brain injuries
Protective gear for the battlefield and beyondCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is investigating the capabilities ...
Class assignment leads to published research
Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Armando Collazo Garcia III got more than he expected from a graduate course he took ...
Engineers propose solar-powered lunar ark as ‘modern global insurance policy’
The ambitious project proposed by a University of Arizona team aims to preserve humankind - and animal-kind, plant-kind and fungi-kind ...
Insatiable demand for cannabis has created a giant carbon footprint
Colorado State University researchers provide the most detailed accounting to date of the industry's greenhouse gas emissionsCredit: Hailey Summers/Colorado State ...
Twistoptics–A new way to control optical nonlinearity
Researchers engineer 1st technique to exploit the tunable symmetry of 2D materials for nonlinear optical applications: laser, optical spectroscopy, imaging, ...
Cooperative eco-driving automation improves energy efficiency and safety
Credit: Sarah Atkinson/Michigan Tech Imagine you're driving up a hill toward a traffic light. The light is still green so ...
Indoors, outdoors, 6 feet apart? Transmission risk of airborne viruses can be quantified
The dynamics of how aerosols travel from one person to another, under different circumstancesCredit: Mj Riches In the 1995 movie ...
Choosing Canada’s automotive future
A new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian AcademiesCredit: Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) The future of autonomous ...
SwRI researchers test natural gas foam’s ability to reduce water use in fracking
Engineers created test facility to show natural gas foam can be created on-site to reduce waste of natural resourcesCredit: SwRI ...
Scientists develop elements for the future electronics
Researchers are developing thin films, the elements for biomolecular electronics.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Modern electronics is approaching ...
UTA researcher explores effects of trauma at the cellular, tissue levels of the brain
Blast trauma and the human brainCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington researcher has received an Office of ...
Chip simplifies COVID-19 testing, delivers results on a phone
Programmed magnetic nanobeads enable diagnostic device designed at Rice UniversityCredit: Lillehoj Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2021) - ...
Heavy rain affects object detection by autonomous vehicle LiDAR sensors
Credit: WMG, University of Warwick Future fully autonomous vehicles will rely on sensors to operate, one type of these sensors ...
A new prototype of an intelligent underground robotic system for urban environments
Credit: UC3M This robotic system is composed of two main elements: a surface vehicle with a geo-radar that is used ...
Strengthened by chaos, new super-hard materials will stir steel together
Department of Defense project will create AI-materials tools to design recipes for a new class of materials tailored to super-hard, ...
Jumping frost crystals: Boreyko lab works toward electrostatic de-icing
Credit: Virginia Tech If you have ever gotten up on a winter morning and thrown yourself into the arduous task ...
Tracking melting points above 4000 degrees Celsius
With a new grant, a UC San Diego engineer is developing a better platform to study new materials that melt ...
