Engineering News
January 19, 2025
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Jan. 17, 2025 — In life sciences, confocal fluorescence microscopy (CFM) is widely regarded for producing high-resolution cellular images. However, it requires fluorescent staining, which poses risks of photobleaching and phototoxicity, potentially damaging the ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — The robotics industry should be creating robots that could be reprogrammed and repurposed for other tasks once its life span is completed, researchers have ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — Scientists have used deep learning to design new proteins that bind to complexes involving other small molecules like hormones or drugs, opening up a world of possibilities in the computational design of molecular interactions for ...
Jan. 16, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel 6D pose dataset designed to improve robotic grasping accuracy and adaptability in industrial settings. The dataset, which integrates RGB and depth images, ...
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Jan. 13, 2025 — In a significant step toward creating a sustainable and circular economy, researchers have demonstrated that carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers can be ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power computers and smartphones. But Moore's Law is ending as physical ...
Jan. 13, 2025 — A new study overcomes a key obstacle to switching commercial aircraft from their near-total reliance on fossil fuels to more sustainable aviation fuels. The study details a cost-effective method for ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — An international team of engineers has developed an innovative, scalable method for creating topography-patterned aluminum surfaces, enhancing liquid ...
Jan. 14, 2025 — Scientists describe their construction of complementary, internal, ion-gated, organic electrochemical transistors that are more amenable chemically, biologically and electronically to living tissues ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers find cell migration doesn't only rely on generating force. A professor of mechanical engineering and materials science found that groups ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — Scientists have developed inhalable lung cancer therapeutics utilizing mucoadhesive proteinic ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — Construction materials such as concrete and plastic have the potential to lock away billions of tons of carbon dioxide, according to a new study by civil engineers and earth systems scientists. The ...
Jan. 8, 2025 — Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few ...
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Jan. 8, 2025 — A breakthrough in decoding the growth process of Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN), a 2D material, and its nanostructures on metal substrates could pave the way for more efficient electronics, cleaner ...
Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have found a low-power, inexpensive way for large numbers of devices, such as machines in factories and equipment in labs, to share information by efficiently using signals at untapped ...
Jan. 7, 2025 — Food drying is a common process for preserving many types of food, including fruits and meat; however, drying can alter the food's quality and nutritional value. In recent years, researchers ...
Jan. 7, 2025 — Engineers created a smaller, faster and more efficient photonic switch, which leverages principles from quantum mechanics and could accelerate everything from streaming to training AI by ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — Scientists have developed an advanced swarm navigation algorithm for cyborg insects that prevents them from becoming stuck while navigating challenging terrain. The new algorithm represents a ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — Engineers have utilized quantum sensors to realize a groundbreaking variation of nuclear quadrupolar resonance (NQR) spectroscopy, a technique traditionally used to detect drugs and explosives or ...
Jan. 3, 2025 — Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space ...
Jan. 3, 2025 — Bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The research could revolutionize therapies for complex conditions like autoimmune ...
Jan. 2, 2025 — Researchers developed a type of infrared photodiode that is 35% more responsive at 1.55 m, the key wavelength for telecommunications, compared to other germanium-based ...
Jan. 1, 2025 — Researchers report that they have invented new nanoscale sensors of force. They are luminescent nanocrystals that can change intensity and/or color when you push or pull on them. These ...
Dec. 30, 2024 — In a breakthrough set to revolutionize the semiconductor industry, engineers have developed the world's first-of-its-kind deep-ultraviolet (UVC) microLED display array for lithography machines. ...
Dec. 27, 2024 — Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic ...
Dec. 25, 2024 — A research team accelerates stretchable technology commercialization with world's first visualization of serpentine ...
Dec. 24, 2024 — Researchers have conducted a comprehensive study to evaluate artificial intelligence based aging clocks, which predict health and lifespan using data from ...
Dec. 20, 2024 — A research team has developed a highly efficient wearable energy harvester that can power electronic devices using only body ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — A research team has developed a groundbreaking method for massively producing ultrathin and ultra-flexible diamond ...
Dec. 19, 2024 — SMART, a new software package, can make studying signaling processes significantly easier. Results could accelerate research in fields across the life sciences, such as systems biology, pharmacology ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size. The findings ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Atomic clocks that excite the nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a transparent crystal when hit by a laser beam could yield the most accurate measurements ever of time and gravity, and even rewrite ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — A new study offers hope for people who are blind or have low vision (pBLV) through an innovative navigation system that was tested using virtual reality. The system, which combines vibrational and ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
- Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology
- Low-Cost System Will Improve Communications Among Industrial Machines
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
- Smart Food Drying Techniques With AI Enhance Product Quality and Efficiency
- Revolutionizing Data Centers: Breakthrough in Photonic Switching
Monday, January 6, 2025
- Scientists Develop Technology to Control Cyborg Insect Swarms
- New Quantum Sensing Technology Reveals Sub-Atomic Signals
Friday, January 3, 2025
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
- Engineering Researchers Develop Revolutionary Diamond Fabrication Technology
- New Software Unlocks Secrets of Cell Signaling
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- Swarms of 'ant-Like' Robots Lift Heavy Objects and Hurl Themselves Over Obstacles
- Thorium Film Could Replace Crystals in Atomic Clocks of the Near Future
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- New Virtual Reality-Tested System Shows Promise in Aiding Navigation of People With Blindness or Low Vision
- Nano Drug Delivery System Heralds Safer Era for Drug Development
- Significant Advancement Made in Engineering Biology and Clean Energy
- The Physics of Random Stacking: Perspectives on Stability and Chaos
- Tiny Robots, Big Impact: Revolutionizing Infertility Treatment With Magnetic Microrobots
Monday, December 16, 2024
Thursday, December 12, 2024
- Bringing the Power of Tabletop Precision Lasers for Quantum Science to the Chip Scale
- Diversity and Inclusion Accelerate the Pace of Innovation in Robotics
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- Minuscule Robots for Targeted Drug Delivery
- Breakthrough in Zinc-Based Rechargeable Batteries: A Safer, Sustainable Alternative
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Discovery of New Growth-Directed Graphene Stacking Domains May Precede New Era for Quantum Applications
- Scientists Develop Coating for Enhanced Thermal Imaging Through Hot Windows
- Breakthrough in the Precision Engineering of Four-Stranded Beta-Sheets
- Advancing the Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Gold Monolayers
- Shape-Changing Device Helps Visually Impaired People Perform Location Task as Well as Sighted People
- 10,000 Times Faster Than Traditional Methods: New Computational Framework Automatically Discovers Experimental Designs in Microscopy
- Empowering Older Adults With Home-Care Robots
Monday, December 9, 2024
- New AI Cracks Complex Engineering Problems Faster Than Supercomputers
- Faster Organic Phosphorescence for Better Display Tech
Friday, December 6, 2024
- New Shape-Changing Polymer Developed
- Magnetically Controlled Kirigami Surfaces Move Objects: No Grasping Needed
- Bird-Inspired Drone Can Jump for Take-Off
- Researchers Innovate Scalable Robotic Fibers With Light-Emitting, Self-Healing and Magnetic Properties
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Monday, December 2, 2024
- DNA Engineered to Mimic Biological Catch Bonds
- Smallest Walking Robot Makes Microscale Measurements
- New 3D Printing Approach Means Better Biomedical, Energy, Robotics Devices
- Innovative Robot Navigation Inspired by Brain Function Boosts Efficiency and Accuracy
Thursday, November 28, 2024
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
- Tapping Excess Heat from a Camp Stove for Charging Power
- Synchronized Movement Between Robots and Humans Builds Trust, Study Finds
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- Building Roots in Glass, a Bio-Inspired Approach to Creating 3D Microvascular Networks Using Plants and Fungi
- Sliding Seeds Can Provide Insight Into Devastating Landslides and Rock Avalanches
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Leaner Large Language Models Could Enable Efficient Local Use on Phones and Laptops
- Effortless Robot Movements
Friday, November 15, 2024
- Scientists Transform Blood Into Regenerative Materials, Paving the Way for Personalized, Blood-Based, 3D-Printed Implants
- Material Developed With Novel Stretching Properties
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
- Research Team Successfully Produces Microbial Plastic to Replace PET Bottles
- Robot That Watched Surgery Videos Performs With Skill of Human Doctor, Researchers Report
- Carpet Fibers Stop Concrete Cracking
- A New Paradigm in High-Speed Photoacoustic Small Animal Whole-Body Imaging
Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Researchers Develop Robotic Sensory Cilia That Monitor Internal Biomarkers to Detect and Assess Airway Diseases
- Robot Learns How to Clean a Washbasin
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- A Smart 'insect Screen' For Sun Protection and Cool Comfort
- AI-Driven Mobile Robots Team Up to Tackle Chemical Synthesis
- New Haptic Patch Transmits Complexity of Touch to the Skin
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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Friday, November 1, 2024
- Fueling Greener Aviation With Hydrogen
- Microplastics Increasing in Freshwater, Directly Related to Plastic Production
Thursday, October 31, 2024
- New Methods for Whale Tracking and Rendezvous Using Autonomous Robots
- Wearable Ultrasound Tech for Muscle Monitoring Opens New Possibilities in Healthcare and Human-Machine Interfaces
- The Silk Thread That Can Turn Clothes Into Charging Stations
- A New Paradigm for Control of Quantum Emitters
- How Virtual Cows Could Help Us Improve Human-Robot Interactions
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- New Illinois Study Explores Adoption of Robotic Weeding to Fight Superweeds
- Quantum Simulator Could Help Uncover Materials for High-Performance Electronics
Monday, October 28, 2024
- A Faster, Better Way to Train General-Purpose Robots
- Bird Wings Inspire New Approach to Flight Safety
- Building Safer Cities With AI: Machine Learning Model Enhances Urban Resilience Against Liquefaction
Friday, October 25, 2024
- Advancement in 3D-Printed Concrete Promises Strength, Durability and Lower Carbon Emissions
- Ultra-Sensitive Electronic Skin Modeled After the Human Brain
- The Evolution of Green Energy Technology: Developing Three-Dimensional Smart Energy Devices With Radiant Cooling and Solar Absorption
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- New AI Model Could Make Power Grids More Reliable Amid Rising Renewable Energy Use
- Scientists Develop Grain-Sized Soft Robots Controlled by Magnetic Fields for Targeted Drug Delivery
- Non-Electric Touchpad Takes Sensor Technology to Extreme Conditions
- Key to Low-Cost, Long-Lasting Renewable Batteries for Electric Vehicles
- Room Temperature Electrical Control Could Heat Up Future Technology Development
- From Accessibility Upgrades to a Custom Cat-Food Bowl, This Mobile 3D Printer Can Autonomously Add Features to a Room