Tag: Technology/Engineering/Computer Science

December 22, 2020

A portable particle detector can determine aerosol concentrations in public spaces.Credit: Daniel Bonn, University of Amsterdam WASHINGTON, December 22, 2020 ...

The iCub humanoid robot enters healthcare facility to be used by children with autism

December 22, 2020

For the first time in the world, the IIT's humanoid robot iCub is part of an experimental therapy in the ...

Lehigh University’s Dr. Nelson Tansu named IEEE Fellow

Engineering professor and researcher lauded for contributions to semiconductor photonics technologiesCredit: Lehigh University Lehigh University's Nelson Tansu has been named ...

High-five or thumbs-up? New device detects which hand gesture you want to make

The device, which combines wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence, could be used to control prosthetics or interact with electronic devicesCredit: ...

NIST software tool improves your doctor’s vaccination advice

Agency's testing tools have increased the correctness and consistency of computerized vaccination recommendations.Credit: B. Hayes/NIST Behind the scenes at your ...

New phase for synthetic aperture microscopy

A phase microscopy method with unprecedented spatial resolution and speed, enough to observe subcellular dynamics and nanometric structuresCredit: SPIE Microscopy ...

UArizona researcher wins $1 million NSF C-Accel Grant

University of Arizona researcher Zheshen Zhang leads a team to create sensor systems for navigation, health care and communications -- ...

Scientists develop the first virtual model of a new Moscow metro station in Russia

Credit: NUST MISIS Scientists from the NUST MISIS Mining Institute have proposed a new approach to urban space design, presenting ...

University of Göttingen awarded new Collaborative Research Centre

DFG funds 'Mathematics of Experiment' with approximately 9 million eurosCredit: CRC 1456 The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be funding ...

Excellent research on actinide bonds and on energy-efficient communication technology

Tonya Vitova and Laurent Schmalen, KIT, are awarded ERC Consolidator Grants for their projectsCredit: Markus Breig, KIT Private For their ...

Scientists develop an efficient way to produce low-cost heatsinks

Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS NUST MISIS scientists found a way to reduce the cost of industrial and electronics heatsinks production ...

Developing smarter, faster machine intelligence with light

Researchers invent an optical convolutional neural network accelerator for machine learningCredit: Volker Sorger/GWU SUMMARY Researchers at the George Washington University, ...

Recently discovered comet seen during 2020 total solar eclipse

Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Andreas Möller (Arbeitskreis Meteore e.V.)/processed by Jay Pasachoff and Roman Vanur/Joy Ng. Eclipse image used with permission. As Chile ...

NASA finds what a glacier’s slope reveals about Greenland Ice Sheet thinning

Credit: Credits: Denis Felikson As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to ...

NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests

Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA's fully assembled James ...

World’s first transmission of 1 Petabit/s using a single-core multimode optical fiber

Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Points A world record transmission of 1 petabit per second in ...

Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) ‘Practices of Comparing’ extended