Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

City, University of London's Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team have transferred the idea of fish scales to arrays of ...

Joel L. Lebowitz honored with 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Mathematical physicist honored "for seminal contributions to nonequilibrium and equilibrium statistical mechanics"Credit: Lebowitz WASHINGTON, October 7, 2020 -- The American ...

WVU engineers receive funding to improve methane sensor technology in longwall mines

Credit: West Virginia University Despite longwall mining being an efficient way of extracting coal, it produces dangerous methane gas that ...

NASA analyzes rainfall around Typhoon Chan-hom’s ragged eye

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL A NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations found heavy rainfall occurring throughout ...

NASA finds dry air sapping Tropical Storm Norbert’s strength

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that dry air is eroding Tropical Storm Norbert, located off ...

Beat the heat: Novel passive cooling device for surfaces and enclosed spaces

Scientists engineer the first passive radiative device that absorbs heat from the inside of an enclosure and emits it on ...

NASA analyzes Hurricane Delta’s water vapor concentration

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 7, it gathered water vapor data ...

New tech sees teens with diabetes improve glucose monitoring, but not control

Credit: University of Otago A world-first Otago study has revealed flash glucose monitors help youth with type 1 diabetes better ...

Plant-based spray could be used in n95 masks and energy devices

Engineers invent way to spray extremely thin wires on 3D objectsCredit: Images: (left) Jonathan P. Singer; (right) Lin Lei Engineers ...

Infrared NASA imagery finds Chan-hom organizing, consolidating

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed the large Tropical Storm Chan-hom as it tracked through the Northwestern ...

NASA catches development of Tropical Storm Norbert as Marie declines

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Eastern ...

NASA-NOAA satellite finds Hurricane Delta rapidly intensifying

Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite revealed that Hurricane Delta has been rapidly growing stronger and more ...

Experiments with twisted 2D materials catch electrons behaving collectively

Credit: Matthew Yankowitz/University of Washington Scientists can have ambitious goals: curing disease, exploring distant worlds, clean-energy revolutions. In physics and ...

New climate model helps researchers better predict water needs

Credit: Mark Wallheiser/FAMU-FSU College of Engineering New research from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering combines climate and land use projections ...

Multi-institutional team extracts more energy from sunlight with advanced solar panels

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers working to maximize solar panel efficiency said layering advanced materials ...

Hydrogen embrittlement creates complications for clean energy storage, transportation

Methods reveal understanding of the location of hydrogen in ferritic steelsCredit: O. Sobol, G. Holzlechner, G. Nolze, T. Wirth, D. ...

Tohoku University teaches old spectroscope new tricks