Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL When Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall in southern Louisiana yesterday, May 7, it dropped a lot of ...

Shedding a new light on 2D materials

Pitt Engineers lead a study on how light affects 2D materials that can be used for improved data storageCredit: University ...

New light for plants

Scientists: Use of glass-ceramics in greenhouse lamps will facilitate plants' growthCredit: Anastasiia Babkina Many may have seen bright pink light ...

For university classrooms, are telepresence robots the next best thing to being there?

Credit: Photo provided by Naomi Fitter, OSU College of Engineering. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Telepresence robots help university students learning remotely ...

Bluetooth technology, the best ally to detect COVID-19 cases through smartphone contact tracing

Smartphone contact tracing would be 'extremely' useful in a new outbreak of the pandemicCredit: @UPV "Tracers have been and are ...

Unravelling complex brain networks with automated 3D neural mapping

Automated 3D brain imaging data analysis technology offers more reliable and standardized analysis of the spatial organization of complex neural ...

Novel computer-assisted chemical synthesis method cuts research time and cost

Credit: WPI-ICReDD Hokkaido University scientists have succeeded in synthesizing an α,α-difluoroglycine derivative, a type of α-amino acid, based on a ...

Researchers advance fuel cell technology

Credit: WSU Washington State University researchers have made a key advance in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that could make ...

Researchers develop 3D-printable material that mimics biological tissues

Credit: N/A Biological tissues have evolved over millennia to be perfectly optimized for their specific functions. Take cartilage as an ...

Artificial brains may need sleep too

States that resemble sleep-like cycles quell the instability that comes with uninterrupted self-learning in artificial analogs of brainsCredit: Los Alamos ...

New discovery advances optical microscopy

Enables researchers to directly visualize unlabeled objects that have deep sub-wavelength separationsCredit: Lynford Goddard, Grainger Engineering URBANA, Ill. - New ...

NASA analyzes Cristobal, the big rainmaker

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared imagery and cloud top temperature data on Tropical Depression Cristobal, and it ...

Cracking open the proton

Frontera guides development of new instrumentation for future COMPASS++/AMBER experiment at CERN and prepares COMPASS data for final analysisCredit: Caroline ...

UTA teams with UT Southwestern on CPRIT-funded lung cancer project

Customized treatment for lung cancer patientsCredit: UT Arlington A researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington has teamed up ...

From Africa to the World: Connecting African innovators and ideas to industry

Credit: @AAS 2020 There is a disconnect between industry, angel donors, venture capitalists and research in Africa. This has resulted ...

Researchers study alternative training tools designed to improve Soldier performance

Credit: US Army photo ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 4, 2020) -- As the U.S. Army revamps its small arms ...

NASA infrared imagery indicates cristobal’s heavy rainmaking capabilities

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson One of the ways NASA observes tropical cyclones is by using infrared data that provides ...

Silicon ‘neurons’ may add a new dimension to computer processors

Energy constraints lead to novel ways of efficient, at-a-distance communicationCredit: Courtesy of Chakrabartty lab When it fires, a neuron consumes ...

Discovery unlocks ‘hot’ electrons for more efficient energy use

Credit: Illustration by Enrique Sahagún WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Highly energetic, "hot" electrons have the potential to help solar panels ...

‘Artificial chemist’ combines AI, robotics to conduct autonomous R&D