Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Metalens sensor could be used for microrobotics, augmented reality, wearable devicesCredit: (Video courtesy of Qi Guo and Zhujun Shi/Harvard University) ...

NASA finds Arabian sea tropical cyclone Kyarr’s heavy rainfall

Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Kyarr is moving through the central Arabian Sea and NASA provided forecasters with an analysis ...

DESI points 5,000 robotic ‘eyes’ at the sky to explore dark energy

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins final testing, setting the stage for a 5-year survey that will analyze the light ...

NASA tracking Eastern Atlantic’s late season Tropical Storm Pablo

Credit: NASA Worldview Pablo is a tropical cyclone that formed late on Oct. 25 and strengthened into a hurricane for ...

NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Olga merge with a cold front

Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Depression 17 strengthened briefly into a tropical storm on the same day it formed, Oct. 25. ...

Topological nanoelectronics

Credit: Picture: Christoph Fleckenstein / University of Wuerzburg Topological insulators are materials with astonishing properties: Electric current flows only along ...

Teaching cars to drive with foresight

Researchers at the University of Bonn present self-learning processCredit: © AG Computer Vision der Universität Bonn Good drivers anticipate dangerous ...

How to move against the current? One answer is ’tilt’-illating

Credit: Dr. Yan-Peng Liu Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a ...

An amazingly simple recipe for nanometer-sized corundum

Credit: IFJ PAN, MPI Kofo Almost everyone uses nanometer-sized alumina these days - this mineral, among others, constitutes the skeleton ...

New research finding gives valleytronics a boost

UC Riverside-led team overcomes a stumbling block in this relatively new technologyCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An ...

Newly created magnets are cheaper, more effective and ‘smarter’

Ferromagnets, or more precisely, magnets -- are extremely demanded materials in modern electronics. The magnets present in almost every device ...

Development of mass production equipment for thin magnetic ribbon, minimizing energy-loss

Energy-saving benefits expected in a wide variety of devices through substituting magnetic steel sheetsCredit: Tohoku Magnet Institute JST announces that ...

Cutting-edge robot makes short work of gardening chores

Credit: Radim Tylecek / University of Edinburgh A gardening robot has been developed that can self-navigate and automatically prune roses ...

Satellite analysis reveals and asymmetric Typhoon Bualoi

Credit: NASA/NOAA/UWM-CIMSS, William Straka III NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite both passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean ...

What use do teenagers make of YouTube?

An article published in the journal Information, Communication & Society by Fernanda Pires, Carlos A. Scolari and Maria-José Masanet,examines teenagers' ...

NASA-NOAA satellite catches development of gulf Tropical Depression 17

Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Gulf of Mexico and revealed that a low pressure area was ...

NASA observes Tropical Storm Kyarr form near southwest India coast

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Kyarr formed near the southwestern coast of India, and NASA's Aqua satellite provided forecasters with a ...

NASA-NOAA satellite shows wind shear affecting a changing Typhoon Bualoi

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific ...

Researchers develop platform for scalable testing of autonomous vehicle safety

Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Coordinated Science Laboratory In the race to manufacture autonomous vehicles (AVs), safety is crucial ...

Small magnets reveal big secrets