Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Credit: U.S. Army graphic ADELPHI, Md. (March 30, 2020) - A team of Army and industry researchers have developed a ...

How at risk are you of getting a virus on an airplane?

New 'CALM' model on passenger movement developed using Frontera supercomputerCredit: TACC Fair or not, airplanes have a reputation for germs. ...

New tool exploring different paths the corona pandemic may take

Credit: Virginia Dignum Umeå University in Sweden is leading a team of researchers across Europe in the development of a ...

Using fiber optics to advance safe and renewable energy

Berkeley Lab to develop innovative technologies to make offshore wind and natural gas storage more reliableCredit: Berkeley Lab Fiber optic ...

The Grainger College of Engineering and Carle Health demonstrate working prototype of emergency vent

The Illinois RapidVent emergency ventilator was developed in less than a week, and preliminary tests show performance equivalent to commercial ...

Engineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants

Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devicesCredit: Courtesy of the researchers The brain is one of ...

Machine learning puts a new spin on spin models

March 28, 2020

New insights into phase transitions using artificial intelligenceCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have ...

Multi-stage deformation process in high-entropy alloys at ultra-low temperatures revealed

March 27, 2020

Pave the way to design new structural materials with superior mechanical propertiesCredit: © Professor Wang Xunli / City University of ...

Bubbles go with the flow

March 27, 2020

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The ...

How to identify factors affecting COVID-19 transmission

Engineers at Stanford describe potential transmission pathways of COVID-19 and their implications.Credit: NIAID-RML Much remains unknown about how SARS-CoV-2, the ...

In politics and pandemics, trolls use fear, anger to drive clicks

Fake Facebook ads placed by Russians in 2016 earned 9 times more clicks than typical adsCredit: Courtesy: Chris Vargo/CU Boulder ...

New technique looks for dark matter traces in dark places

Study knocks down some theories for the origin of a mysterious light signature that has puzzled physicists for yearsCredit: Zosia ...

ACM launches industry-focused journal on digital threats

First issue looks at incident response and security teamsCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today ...

Samara Polytech scientist designs wind-powered generator

The unique device has no analogues in the worldCredit: @SamaraPolytech Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Basic Electrical Engineering ...

OSU research paves way to improved cleanup of contaminated groundwater

Credit: OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Beads that contain bacteria and a slow-release food supply to sustain them ...

Solving a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing, part two:

Engineers explore algorithm's capabilities in special cases 'on the unit circle'Credit: Figure courtesy of Alexander Stoytchev. AMES, Iowa - Iowa ...

Stanford engineers find ankle exoskeleton aids running

Credit: Farrin Abbott/Stanford News Service Running is great exercise but not everyone feels great doing it. In hopes of boosting ...

New technologies aim to make 3D cameras easier to use

Credit: Song Zhang/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A 3D camera should be as easy to use as one found ...

A nanoscale device to generate high-power Terahertz waves

Researchers at EPFL have developed a nanodevice that operates more than 10 times faster than today's fastest transistorsCredit: EPFL / ...

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