Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Tiny box puts itself together and glowsCredit: Zhan et al., CC-BY A cube one-fortieth the size of a human red ...

NASA-NOAA satellite’s night-time look at Tropical Storm Kiko

Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean in the early hours of Sept. 12 and ...

GPM analyzes rainfall in Bahamas from potential Tropical Cyclone 9

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL As the Bahamas continue to recover from Category 5 hurricane Dorian, a new developing tropical cyclone is bringing ...

Team discovers polymorph selection during crystal growth can be thermodynamically driven

Studying colloidal crystallization, Lehigh scientists show that kinetic effects may be unable to fully explain the appearance of structural transformations, ...

Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way

Credit: Jennifer McCann and Amritanand Sebastian, Penn State While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel ...

Five or more hours of smartphone usage per day may increase obesity

Recent study found risk of obesity increased by 43% As smartphones continue to be an inherent part of life and ...

NASA’s terra satellite finds tropical storm 07W’s strength on the side

Credit: NASA/NRL Wind shear can push clouds and thunderstorms away from the center of a tropical cyclone and that's exactly ...

NASA finds one burst of energy in weakening Depression Dalila

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite found just a small area of cold clouds in thunderstorms within ...

Researcher’s innovative flood mapping helps water and emergency management officials

Credit: Civil Air Patrol - Kansas Wing LAWRENCE -- When Jude Kastens was developing a new floodplain mapping model more ...

Supergen ORE Hub awards £1 million to advance research in offshore renewable energy sector

The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy Hub has awarded almost £1million to UK universities to support ambitious research projects investigating all ...

Transforming biology to design next-generation computers, using a surprise ingredient

Purdue University researchers turned to biology to help in the design of next-generation computersCredit: Purdue University/Shelley Claridge WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ...

Making blockchain transactions secure and private

TU Wien has launched a blockchain research lab, which proves to be very successful: With heavy funding from leading blockchain ...

Make more with your 3D printers: from smooth surfaces to complex patterns

Credit: ©Inria The production revolution envisioned by 3D printing visionaries is only a few steps away, when we will be ...

Technologies for the Sixth Generation Cellular Network

Ultra-rapid Electro-optical Modulators Convert Terahertz into Optical Data Signals - Publication in Nature PhotonicsCredit: IPQ/KIT Future wireless data networks will ...

Physicists from IKBFU create metallic alloy for magnetic refrigerator

Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Physicists of the Laboratory of Novel Magnetic Materials of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal ...

Virginia Tech researchers lead breakthrough in quantum computing

Credit: Virginia Tech The large, error-correcting quantum computers envisioned today could be decades away, yet experts are vigorously trying to ...

Expanding the limits of personalized medicine with high-performance computing

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory What should personalized, precision treatment of cancer look like in the future? We know that people ...

Researchers develop new technology for multiple sclerosis diagnosis and treatment

Patent-pending tool creates 3D images of brain lesionsCredit: Center for BrainHealth DALLAS (July 19, 2019) - Researchers at the Center ...

PolyU engineering students win Gold at ASM Technology Award 2019

Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The annual event has been organised since 2015 to recognise excellence in technology, showcasing ...

3D slave ship model brings a harrowing story to life