Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams) ARLINGTON, Va.--The Department of Defense (DoD) recently awarded $50 million in grants ...

UTA faculty member to study underground gas leaks, work with first responders

Detecting and repairing large gas leaksCredit: UT Arlington A civil engineering associate professor at The University of Texas at Arlington ...

Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish

Fish-inspired robots coordinate movements without any outside controlCredit: Image courtesy of Self-organizing Systems Research Group Schools of fish exhibit complex, ...

Research to advance environmental sound classification wins IEEE Best Paper Award

Credit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, January 13, 2021 - The paper "Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for ...

Error protected quantum bits entangled

A milestone in the development of fault-tolerant quantum computerCredit: Uni Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Even computers can miscalculate. Already small disturbances change ...

Columbia engineers first to observe avalanches in nanoparticles

Researchers develop the first nanomaterial that demonstrates "photon avalanching;" finding could lead to new applications in sensing, imaging, and light ...

How to keep drones flying when a motor fails

Credit: UZH As anxious passengers are often reassured, commercial aircrafts can easily continue to fly even if one of the ...

Copper-indium oxide: A faster and cooler way to reduce our carbon footprint

Scientists set a record for the highest conversion rate of carbon dioxide at low temperatures with copper-modified indium oxide, signifying ...

Seawater as an electrical cable !? Wireless power transfers in the ocean

For drones that can be stationed underwater for the adoption of ICT in maricultureCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ...

Two Berkeley Lab scientists honored with the Lawrence Award

The Department of Energy's award goes to a microbiologist and a nuclear physicist.Credit: Berkeley Lab, Noah Berger/UC Berkeley, Princeton University ...

New study suggests that college campuses are COVID-19 superspreaders

Credit: Are college campuses superspreaders? A data-driven modeling study - Lu et al, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering ...

University of Texas researcher recognized for pioneering work utilizing nanotechno

Guihua Yu, Ph.D. Named 2021 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award recipient in EngineeringCredit: TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and ...

Energy harvesting made possible with skin temperature

Development of flexible thermoelectric devices with maximized flexibility and high efficiency; enabling mass production with high yield by automated process, ...

$1.2 million grant funds a new generation of healthcare telemanipulation robots

UC MRPI award will develop advanced telehealth robots to protect healthcare workers and help isolated people connect with their communities.Credit: ...

Hunters and busybodies: Researchers use Wikipedia to measure different types of curiosity

The study from Penn and American University draws on psychology, philosophy and network science to better understand the different ways ...

Oxford Brookes University hosts £5 million project to document endangered wooden buildings

The School of Architecture's grant-giving worldwide programme will make records freely available onlineCredit: Ronald G. Knapp, 2019. The School of ...

Wearable electronics for continuous cardiac, respiratory monitoring

An inexpensive yet highly sensitive wearable sensor holds promise for detecting early COVID-19 symptoms and monitoring heart diseaseCredit: Yong Xu ...

Can sodium-ion batteries replace trusty lithium-ion ones?