Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite passed over eastern North Atlantic Ocean and captured an infrared view of what is ...

pinMOS: Novel memory device can be written on and read out optically or electrically

Credit: (c) Yichu Zheng This device allows reading the stored information optically as well as electrically. Moreover, the information can ...

NASA’s Webb to unveil the secrets of nearby dwarf galaxies

Credit: Credits: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2 In two separate studies using NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, a team ...

Novel tactile display using computer-controlled surface adhesion

Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers at Osaka University developed a novel two-dimensional (2D) graphical tactile display to which ...

Light-trapping nanocubes drive inexpensive multispectral camera

Plasmonic light detector could revolutionize multispectral imaging for cancer, food safety and agricultureCredit: Maiken Mikkelsen & Jon Stewart, Duke University ...

NUS researchers create new metallic material for flexible soft robots

Credit: National University of Singapore 'Origami robots' are state-of-the-art soft and flexible robots that are being tested for use in ...

Drag can lift birds to new heights, Stanford researchers find

Credit: Diana Chin Future aerial design may owe a nod of thanks to five parrotlets flapping around in an instrumented ...

NASA examines tropical storm Fung-Wong’s rainfall

Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL NASA analyzed Tropical Storm Fung-Wong's rainfall and found two small areas of moderate to heavy rainfall, despite ...

NASA’s infrared analysis of Tropical Storm Sebastien sees wind shear

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Sebastian continued to move in a northeasterly direction through the North Atlantic Ocean as NASA's Aqua ...

Research shows old newspapers can be used to grow carbon nanotubes

Newspapers provide a green, economical way to produce carbon nanotubesCredit: Rice University A research collaboration between Rice University and the ...

Efficient bottom-up synthesis of new perovskite material for the production of ammonia

Credit: Tokyo Tech Perovskites are a class of synthetic materials that have a crystalline structure similar to that of the ...

Scientists help soldiers figure out what robots know

Credit: (ARL Photo) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Nov. 21, 2019) -An Army-led research team developed new algorithms and filled in ...

2019 ACM Gordon Bell Prize awarded to ETH Zurich team for simulation that maps heat in transistors

DaCe OMEN framework could help industry design better and more efficient computer chipsCredit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, ...

Dartmouth & IMT named 2019 winners of annual edX prize

Professional certificate offered by Thayer School of Engineering and Institut Mines-TélécomCredit: Kathryn Lapierre/Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth Dartmouth professor ...

NASA tracks a weaker tropical storm Fung-Wong

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Tropical Storm Fung-Wong as it continued weakening in the ...

Army project may improve military communications by boosting 5G technology

Credit: Carbonics, Inc. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Nov. 21, 2019) -- An Army-funded project may boost 5G and mm-Wave technologies, ...

How to design and control robots with stretchy, flexible bodies

Optimizing soft robots to perform specific tasks is a huge computational problem, but a new model can helpCredit: Image courtesy ...

Breaking (and restoring) graphene’s symmetry in a twistable electronics device

Columbia researchers invent a new way to tune the properties of 2D materials by adjusting the twist angle between them; ...

NASA found Atlantic’s Sebastien was fighting wind shear

Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Sebastien that showed wind shear had pushed ...

Exposing office distractions and effects on worker productivity