Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Credit: Virginia Tech The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for Ling ...

Communications device offers huge bandwidth potential

Researchers have painstakingly combined plasma, metal and dielectric materials into multifunctional, artificial crystals, which could pave the way to higher ...

She uses mushroom enzyme and light to create green chemicals

By combining nature's own reactions, Associate Professor Selin Kara from the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University aims to develop ...

Insects’ drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots

An experiment involving gluing a tiny thrip's wing to a self-sensing microcantilever was confirmed using 3D computational fluid dynamics simulationsCredit: ...

No ‘clouded’ judgments: Geostationary satellite an alternative to monitor land surfaces

Researchers explain how a new meteorological satellite can be an option to monitor land surfaces and climate changeCredit: Tomoaki Miura ...

NII start operation 400 Gbps link to speed up SINET supporting Japan’s academic research

Putting world-leading long-distance 400 Gbps link into practical operationCredit: © National Institute of Informatics SINET is a network utilized by ...

All Bitcoin mining should be environmentally friendly

Credit: Naoki Shibata The rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin has the potential to change how we view ...

New laser technique images quantum world in a trillionth of a second

Technique captures a process that commonly causes electrical resistance in materials while, in others, can cause the absence of resistance, ...

Making robots more perceptive

Lehigh University's Nader Motee is investigating ways to improve robots' awareness and decision-making capabilities, with over $1M in grants from ...

Research shows ramping up carbon capture could be key to mitigating climate change

Credit: UK Department of Energy & Climate Change As the world gathers in Madrid to discuss how to reduce greenhouse ...

Rice, Amazon report breakthrough in ‘distributed deep learning’

MACH slashes time and resources needed to train computers for product searchesCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Dec. ...

Reorganizing a computer chip: Transistors can now both process and store information

Researchers solve decades-old challenge of building a functional transistor integrated with ferroelectric RAMCredit: Purdue University photo/Vincent Walter WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ...

Storing data in everyday objects

Credit: ETH Zurich / Julian Koch Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. ...

City research draws on Formula 1 technology for the construction of skyscrapers

Civil engineering academic is developing new vibration-control devices based on Formula 1 technology for skyscrapersCredit: City, University of London City, ...

NASA examines Tropical Cyclone Belna’s water vapor concentration

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean, water vapor data provided information about the ...

SwRI wins two R&D 100 Awards

Superhydrophobic coating, direction-finding antenna honored for innovationCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Dec. 9, 2019 -- Two Southwest Research ...

Metal-organic sponge can convert CO2 into fuel

Associate Prof. Nina Lock from the Department of Engineering has received a grant of DKK 4.3 million (EUR 0.6 mill.) ...

Cross of the Order of Merit for Britta Nestler

KIT scientist receives Cross of the Order of Merit in a ceremony on the occasion of the Day of German ...

Demonstration of high-speed SOT-MRAM memory cell compatible with 300mm Si CMOS technology

Credit: CIES, Tohoku University Researchers at Tohoku University have announced the demonstration of high-speed spin-orbit-torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random access memory ...

Rhythmic perception in humans has strong evolutionary roots