Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Negative capacitance field-effect transistors are being explored as a way to make traditional transistors more efficient -- by simply adding ...

Prestigious title awarded for marine robotics

Professor Stefan Williams has been recognized by the IEEECredit: Lachlan Toohey/University of Sydney With a career focused on robotics and ...

NASA infrared imagery reveals powerful Tropical Cyclone Idai at Mozambique’s coast

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Terra satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Cyclone Idai approaching the coast of Mozambique. The infrared ...

Researchers create nano-bot to probe inside human cells

Magnetic 'tweezers' developed by U of T Engineering researchers could help diagnose and fight cancerCredit: Courtesy of Xian Wang / ...

Astronomers discover 83 supermassive black holes in the early universe

Subaru Telescope spots 13-billion-year-old quasars powered by black holesCredit: Image courtesy of Yoshiki Matsuoka Astronomers from Japan, Taiwan and Princeton ...

Columbia Team develops treatments for depression

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of resistance to antidepressants Major depressive disorder is a debilitating illness that affects more than 350 ...

Fuel cell vehicles: New sensor system safeguards fuel quality at hydrogen filling stations

Hannover MesseCredit: Oliver Dietze Fuel cell vehicles need hydrogen to operate, but that hydrogen has to be free of any ...

On-the-spot genome analysis

Credit: Hasindu Gamaarachchi The ability to read the genome - all the DNA of an organism - has vast potential ...

Machine learning tracks moving cells

Scientists can now study the migration of label-free cells at unprecedented resolution, a feat with applications across biology, disease research, ...

New method to assess platelet health could help ER doctors

Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington Emergency room doctors often have only a few minutes to determine which patients are in ...

Virtual time-lapse photos can capture ultrafast phenomena

Stanford researchers outline the role of a deep brain structure in concussion

Concussion researchers have long suggested that damage to the corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerves that connects the brain's ...

Kessler Foundation awarded federal grant to study wearable robotic in spinal cord injury

Ghaith J. Androwis, PhD, of Kessler Foundation will lead study of the MyoPro device to improve upper extremity motor function ...

Speedy ‘slingshot’ cell movement observed for the first time

ANN ARBOR--By slingshotting themselves forward, human cells can travel more than five times faster than previously documented. University of Michigan ...

Cancer imaging technology can help reveal life-threatening pregnancy disorder

Photoacoustic imaging can help detect preeclampsia, which accounts for 14 percent of global maternal deaths annually An imaging technique used ...

Neurofeedback gets you back in the zone

New study from Columbia biomedical engineers demonstrates that a brain-computer interface can improve your performanceCredit: Josef Faller/Columbia Engineering New York, ...

Machine-learning model provides detailed insight on proteins

The ability of an artificial neural network to analyse protein sequence data could be exploited to help inform the development ...

Tropical Cyclone Idai seen in Mozambique channel by NASA’s Terra Satellite

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean ...

Can artificial intelligence solve the mysteries of quantum physics?

Mobileye founder's team at Hebrew University found the wayCredit: Hebrew University Under the direction of Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua, a ...

Light provides control for 3D printing with multiple materials