Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Using turbulence to generate frequency combs from small ring lasersCredit: Harvard SEAS We've all experienced turbulent air and water, but ...

Non-invasive fetal oxygen monitor could make for safer deliveries

Credit: Daniel Fong, UC Davis A device to directly measure blood oxygen saturation in a fetus during labor has been ...

Coronavirus defense: Navy develops 3d-printed tactical masks for US Forces Korea

Credit: (U.S Army photo by KCpl. Hanmin Yun. 2ID/RUCD Public Affairs) ARLINGTON, Va.--The coronavirus pandemic has caused a global shortage ...

Uncovering hidden flow patterns in coastal waters likely leads to faster disaster response

Credit: Virginia Tech Each year, the U.S. Coast Guard performs thousands of search and rescue missions at sea. In situations ...

UConn, Army Research lab collaborate on new portable, renewable energy technology

Credit: Army Research Lab UConn's Associate Dean for Research and Industrial Partnerships, S. Pamir Alpay, and Yomery Espinal '18 PhD ...

Microlandscaped abrasive tools deliver perfect grinding results

Credit: Oliver Dietze Tiny pyramids and cubes precisely aligned in rows and columns or radial lines of minute raised dots ...

How the giant sequoia protects itself

Credit: Photo: Plant Biomechanics Group Freiburg The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) has developed effective strategies to protect itself against external ...

Researchers develop a compact 28 GHz transceiver supporting dual-polarized MIMO

Study contributes to driving advances in 5GCredit: 2020 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...

CMU method makes more data available for training self-driving cars

Additional data boosts accuracy of tracking other cars, pedestriansCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--For safety's sake, a self-driving car must accurately ...

$345K NSF grant to fund research to modify paper electronics to make them stretchable

Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York A three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund research ...

Scientists grow optical chips in a petri dish

A team of scientists led by ITMO researchers proposed a quick and affordable method to create optical chips right in ...

Simulated sea slug gets addicted to drug

Credit: Photo by Tracy Clark. Graphic by Diana Yates CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists built a computer model of a simple ...

Innovative gear principle

"Smart Gear" makes industrial robots more powerful and intelligentCredit: © Frankl - TU Graz Additional portrait for download can be ...

New Editor-in-Chief appointed for Journal of Photonics for Energy

Sean Shaheen will lead the journal beginning in July 2020Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington - On 1 July, Sean Shaheen, associate ...

Determining effective magnetic moment of multicore nanoparticles

Magnetic nanoparticles can be used for drug targeting, storage media, moreCredit: Frank Ludwig WASHINGTON, June 16, 2020 -- Magnetic nanoparticles, ...

Wearable patch may provide new treatment option for skin cancer

Credit: Purdue University/Chi Hwan Lee WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Conventional melanoma therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, suffer from the toxicity ...

NASA follows Tropical Storm Nuri’s path

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview An animation of four days of imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed the progression and landfall ...

MIT, NIST create first room-temp ‘magnon switch’ with industrially useful properties

Build approach could lead to entirely new and more efficient logic switches for computer chips.Credit: N. Hanacek / NIST Scientists ...

Building a circular chemical economy

Pitt's James McKone selected as a 2020 Beckman Young Investigator for a project that recycles carbon dioxide back into useful ...

Electronic health information exchange improves public health disease reporting