Engineering News
May 3, 2025
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May 1, 2025 — Scientists have expanded on a longstanding model governing the mechanics behind slip banding, a process that produces strain marks in metals under compression, gaining a new understanding of the behavior of advanced materials critical to energy ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Lightweight lithium metal is a heavy-hitting critical mineral, serving as the key ingredient in the rechargeable batteries that power phones, laptops, electric vehicles and more. As ubiquitous as ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — A more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to extracting rare earth elements that power everything from electric vehicle batteries to smartphones could increase domestic supply and decrease reliance on costly ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have created a light-powered soft robot that can carry loads through the air along established tracks, similar to cable cars or aerial trams. The soft robot operates autonomously, can climb slopes at angles of up to 80 degrees, and can ...
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Apr. 28, 2025 — With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build sustainably. By infusing red oak with ferrihydrite using a simple, low-cost ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new catalyst design capable of pushing the projected fuel cell catalyst lifespans to 200,000 hours. The research marks a ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, according to a new study. A combination of electromyography and force ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In this ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure -- without ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — After uncovering a unifying algorithm that links more than 20 common machine-learning approaches, researchers organized them into a 'periodic table of machine learning' that can help scientists ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks ...
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Apr. 18, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity that could enable transformative advancements in ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A researcher has developed an autonomous driving algorithm for agricultural robots used for greenhouse cultivation and other farm ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A research team develops a new alloy that maintains tensile properties from -196 degrees Celsius to 600 degrees ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production of over 10 grams of chicken muscle for cultured meat ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — A team has developed an explainable AI model for automatic collision avoidance between ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Researchers have developed a machine learning workflow to optimize the output force of photo-actuated organic crystals. Using LASSO regression to identify key molecular substructures and Bayesian ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — When materials are created on a nanometer scale -- just a handful of atoms thick -- even the thermal energy present at room temperature can cause structural ripples. How these ripples affect the ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A new approach to streaming technology may significantly improve how users experience virtual reality and augmented reality environments, according to a new study. The research describes a method for ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy required for ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A new way to watch catalytic reactions happen at the molecular level in real time could lead to better fundamental understanding and planning of the important reactions used in countless ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...
Apr. 7, 2025 — The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus -- just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student recently made the surprising discovery of what they call a 'shape-recovering liquid,' which defies some long-held expectations ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices -- ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat -- a team of researchers made a discovery: ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? Researchers address the classic 'nature versus nurture' question. The research ...
Friday, April 18, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- RoboBee Comes in for a Landing
- Farm Robot Autonomously Navigates, Harvests Among Raised Beds
- A New Super Metal Stands Strong, No Matter the Temperature
- Bite-Sized Chunks of Chicken With the Texture of Whole Meat Can Be Grown in the Lab
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Explainable AI for Ship Navigation Raises Trust, Decreases Human Error
- Machine Learning Unlocks Superior Performance in Light-Driven Organic Crystals
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Light That Spirals Like a Nautilus Shell
- Engineered Bacteria Emit Signals That Can Be Spotted from a Distance
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- 3D Streaming Gets Leaner by Seeing Only What Matters
- A New Robotic Gripper Made of Measuring Tape Is Sizing Up Fruit and Veggie Picking
- Hopping Gives This Tiny Robot a Leg Up
- 3D-Printed Open-Source Robot Offers Accessible Solution for Materials Synthesis
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Researchers Watch a Single Catalytic Grain Do Work in Real Time
- Tiny, Soft Robot Flexes Its Potential as a Life Saver
Monday, April 7, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Nurture More Important Than Nature for Robotic Hand
- Carbon Capture Could Become Practical With Scalable, Affordable Materials
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Scientists Unveil Starfish-Inspired Wearable Tech for Heart Monitoring
- Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks
- Metamaterials: Highly Twisted Rods Store Large Amounts of Energy
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Breakthrough Copper Alloy Achieves Unprecedented High-Temperature Performance
- Researchers Find a Way to Shield Quantum Information from 'noise'
- A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin
- Beyond Ambiguous Reflections: Bridging Optical 3D Metrology and Computer Vision
- Feeling the Future: New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies
- Virtual Reality Videos Increase Environmental Awareness
- Philosophy: Cultural Differences in Exploitation of Artificial Agents
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
- Eco-Friendly, Nylon-Like Plastic Using Microorganisms
- These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer
- Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Engineer Develops New Security Protocol to Protect Miniaturized Wireless Medical Implants from Cyberthreats
- Recycled Cements Drive Down Emissions Without Slacking on Strength
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Coffee-Making Robot Breaks New Ground for AI Machines
- Rapid Response to Address Critical Aging Aircraft Issue
- Revolutionary Blueprint to Fuse Wireless Technologies and AI
- Building a Safer Future: Strengthen Haiti's Earthquake Resilience
Monday, March 17, 2025
- From Order to Chaos: Understanding the Principles Behind Collective Motion in Bacteria
- RNA Origami: Artificial Cytoskeletons to Build Synthetic Cells
- Artificial Muscle Flexes in Multiple Directions, Offering a Path to Soft, Wiggly Robots
- Magnetic Microalgae on a Mission to Become Robots
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
- Stretching Spider Silk Makes It Stronger
- Security Veins: Advanced Biometric Authentication Through AI and Infrared
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Smart, Energy-Efficient Robot Grippers Cut Production Costs
- Touchless Tech: Control Fabrics With a Wave of Your Finger
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Scientists Develop Open-Source Software for Modeling Soft Materials
- My Compliments to the Chef: Researcher Studies Robots in the Kitchen
- Feeling Is Believing: Bionic Hand 'knows' What It's Touching, Grasps Like a Human
- Controlling Conformational Changes in Protein Aromatic Side Chains
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Quantum Properties in Atom-Thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells
- Scientists Use AI to Better Understand Nanoparticles
- Breaking the Surface: How Damage Reshapes Ripples in Graphene
- Engineers Create More Effective Burner to Reduce Methane Emissions
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Self-Driving Cars Learn to Share Road Knowledge Through Digital Word-of-Mouth
- Cracking the Code on Solid-State Batteries
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Student Refines 100-Year-Old Math Problem, Expanding Wind Energy Possibilities
- Material's 'incipient' Property Could Jumpstart Fast, Low-Power Electronics
- A Springtail-Like Jumping Robot
- Morphing Robot Turns Challenging Terrain to Its Advantage
- Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- A New Model Accurately Predicts the Movement of Elite Athletes to Catch the Ball in Parabolic Flight
- From Waste to Wonder: Revolutionary Green Grout for Sustainable Construction Practices
- Materials Incorporated Into Quantum Qubit Platform
Friday, February 21, 2025
- How to Get a Robot Collective to Act Like a Smart Material
- Microcomb Chips Help Pave the Way for Thousand Times More Accurate GPS Systems
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- A Miniature Swimming Robot Inspired by Marine Flatworms
- For Success in Bioelectronics, Build With Nature-Inspired Design
- New Environmentally-Friendly Mortar Reduces Heat Loss
- Groundbreaking Study Reveals How Topology Drives Complexity in Brain, Climate, and AI
- A Robust and Adaptive Controller for Ballbots
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Harnessing Failure as an Asset: How Researchers Are Innovating Smarter Wearable Tech
- Selective Combustion Provides Energy-Efficient Alternative to Remove Pollutants from Industrial Processes
Monday, February 17, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Combining Millions of Years of Evolution With Tech Wizardry: The Cyborg Cockroach
- Research Uses AI to Make Infrastructure More Resilient, Sustainable
- Engineers Discover Key Barrier to Longer-Lasting Batteries
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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Monday, February 10, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Novel 'living' Biomaterial Aims to Advance Regenerative Medicine
- New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- 'Living' Electrodes Breathe New Life Into Traditional Silicon Electronics
- Researchers Discover New Way to Customize Living Materials for Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery and 3D Printing