Engineering and Construction News
March 19, 2025
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Mar. 18, 2025 — A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices using a series of reconfigurable electromechanical ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — Scientists have unveiled an innovative approach for synthesizing azaparacyclophanes (APCs), a class of highly advanced ring-shaped molecular structures with immense potential in material science. ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot designers to discover how squirrels do it, and used ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...
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Mar. 17, 2025 — With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers have published a new study that dives deep into nickel-based cathodes, one of the two electrodes that facilitate energy storage in ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Imagine a microscopic locomotive moving back and forth along a track, propelling itself without any external force. At the molecular level, this ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics. The researchers have created an organic ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — A study highlights a new approach in addressing conductive hearing loss. A team of scientists has designed a new type of hearing aid that not only improves hearing but also offers a safe, ...
Scientists Develop Solar-Powered Method to Convert Sewage Sludge Into Green Hydrogen and Animal Feed
Mar. 12, 2025 — Scientists have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludge -- a by-product of wastewater treatment -- into green ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Physicists have created a new computer code that could speed up the design of the complicated magnets that shape the plasma in stellarators, making ...
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Mar. 13, 2025 — Scientists improved battery durability and energy density with a nano-spring ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers created 'growth printing,' which mimics tree trunks' outward expansion to print polymer parts quickly and efficiently without the molds and expensive equipment typically ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic, yet powerful structures using 3D printing. One ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Physicists developed simplified formulas to quantify quantum entanglement in strongly correlated electron systems. Their approach was applied to nanoscale materials, revealing unexpected quantum ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — Newly achieved precise control over light emitted from incredibly tiny sources, a few nanometers in size, embedded in two-dimensional materials could lead to remarkably high-resolution monitors and ...
Mar. 7, 2025 — When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...
Mar. 7, 2025 — Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts -- whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices -- has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered techniques to bestow superpowers upon sapphire, a material that most of us think of as just a pretty ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — A new technique builds inorganic and polymer battery electrolytes at the same time, in the same vessel. This 'one-pot' in-situ method creates a controlled, homogeneous blend, pairing the ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have created washable and durable magnetic field sensing electronic textiles -- thought to be the first of their kind -- which they say paves the way to transform use in clothing. This ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Scientists have developed a biorobotic arm that can mirror human tremors, such as those experienced by individuals that live with Parkinson's disease. Artificial muscles on either side of the ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — A team of researchers created Morpho, an open-source programmable environment that enables researchers and engineers to conduct shape optimization and design for soft materials. Applications can be ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Cement manufacturing and repair could be significantly improved by using biocement-producing bacteria, but growing the microbes at construction sites remains a challenge. Now, researchers report a ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Engineers devised a new method for designing metals and alloys that can withstand extreme impacts, which could lead to the development of automobiles, aircraft and armor that can better endure ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Engineers have developed a method to utilize aluminum to improve performance of water electrolysis ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Concrete structures in Japan capture and store about 14% of the CO2 emissions released during cement production, according to a new study. Their findings provide crucial insights for offsetting CO2 ...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Nature-Inspired 3D-Printing Method Shoots Up Faster Than Bamboo
- Muscles from the Printer: Silicone That Moves
- Elementary-Particle Detectors, 3D Printed
- Plastic Recycling Gets a Breath of Fresh Air
- Untangling Quantum Entanglement With New Calculation Formulas
Monday, March 10, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
- Stretching Spider Silk Makes It Stronger
- AI Reveals New Way to Strengthen Titanium Alloys and Speed Up Manufacturing
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Super Sapphire Resists Scratches, Glare, Fog and Dust
- New 'one-Pot' Technique a Breakthrough for Material Synthesis
- Smart, Energy-Efficient Robot Grippers Cut Production Costs
- Touchless Tech: Control Fabrics With a Wave of Your Finger
- Artificial Muscles for Tremor Suppression
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Scientists Develop Open-Source Software for Modeling Soft Materials
- Packets of Freeze-Dried Bacteria Grow Biocement on Demand
- Nanoscale Tweaks Help Alloy Withstand High-Speed Impacts
- Feeling Is Believing: Bionic Hand 'knows' What It's Touching, Grasps Like a Human
- Aluminum: A New Hero of Hydrogen Production
- Concrete Evidence: Japanese Buildings Absorb 14% of Cement Production's Carbon Footprint
- Single-Qubit Sensing Puts New Spin on Quantum Materials Discovery
- New Discovery Could 'revolutionize Carbon Fiber Industry'
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Scientists Unravel the Spiraling Secrets of Magnetic Materials for Next-Generation Electronics
- Researchers Unveil Neuromorphic Exposure Control System to Improve Machine Vision in Extreme Lighting Environments
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
- A Lightweight Flexible Alloy for Extreme Temperatures
- Unraveling How a 'magnetic Twist' Induces One-Way Electric Flow
- Turning Waste Organic Compound Into Useful Pharmaceuticals and Energy Using a Technique Inspired by Photosynthesis
- Unraveling the Origin of Extremely Bright Quantum Emitters
- Researchers Demonstrate Laser Writing With Unprecedented Speed and Resolution
- Cracking the Code on Solid-State Batteries
- A Clear Game-Changer: Water-Repellent Glass Breaks New Ground
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
- Morphing Robot Turns Challenging Terrain to Its Advantage
- Time Interfaces: The Gateway to Four-Dimensional Quantum Optics
- Sacrificial Scaffolding Helps New Hydrogels Heal Quickly
- What Can Theoretical Physics Teach Us About Knitting?
- Critical Nanoscale Phenomena for More Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
- Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Modifying Graphene With Plasma to Produce Better Gas Sensors
- Mesoporous Silicon: Semiconductor With New Talents
- From Defect to High-Tech Material
- Breakthrough in High-Sensitivity Quantum Sensors With Diamond Heteroepitaxy
- From Waste to Wonder: Revolutionary Green Grout for Sustainable Construction Practices
- Materials Incorporated Into Quantum Qubit Platform
- From Scraps to Sips: Everyday Biomass Produces Drinking Water from Thin Air
- Scientists Design Battery That Runs on Atomic Waste
Friday, February 21, 2025
- How to Get a Robot Collective to Act Like a Smart Material
- Highly Uniform Nanocrystals Synthesized by Liquid Crystalline Antisolvent
- Flexible Crystals Reveal Secrets of Elasticity
- Perovskite Solar Cells: Thermal Stresses Are the Key to Long-Term Stability
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Topological Quantum Processor Marks Breakthrough in Computing
- Chemists Find Greener Path to Making Key Industrial Chemical
- Giant X-Ray Facility Shows That Magnets Can Reduce Flaws in 3D Printed Components
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- A Miniature Swimming Robot Inspired by Marine Flatworms
- A New Way to Observe Electrons in Motion
- For Success in Bioelectronics, Build With Nature-Inspired Design
- New Environmentally-Friendly Mortar Reduces Heat Loss
- Magnetic Switch Traps Quantum Information Carriers in One Dimension
- A Breakthrough in Hydrogen Catalysis: Electronic Fine-Tuning Unlocks Superior Performance
- Novel Carbon-Based Materials to Remove Hazardous 'forever Chemicals' In Water
Friday, February 28, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Coffee Grounds and Reishi Mushroom Spores Can Be 3D Printed Into a Compostable Alternative to Plastics
- 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
- Novel Catalyst Development for Sustainable Ammonia Synthesis
- Breaking the Pattern: How Disorder Toughens Materials
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Clearing the Way for Faster and More Cost-Effective Separations
- Terabytes of Data in a Millimeter Crystal
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Record-Speed Waves on Extremely Water-Repellent Surfaces
- Unique Five-Atom Bismuth Ring Synthesized
- Scientists Herald Active Matter Breakthrough With Creation of Three-Dimensional 'synthetic Worms'
- Recyclable Plastic for the Printer
- Research Uses AI to Make Infrastructure More Resilient, Sustainable
- Engineers Discover Key Barrier to Longer-Lasting Batteries
- New 3D Printing Method Replicates Nature's Finest Fibers
- Jacket Uses AI to Keep You Comfortable
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Negative Refraction of Light Using Atoms Instead of Metamaterials
- Stronger, Safer, Smarter: Pioneering Zinc-Based Dissolvable Implants for Bone Repair
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Engineering Biological Reaction Crucibles to Rapidly Produce Proteins
- New Smart Sensor Takes the Pain out of Wound Monitoring
Monday, February 10, 2025
- A Symphony in Quantum
- Nanoscale Tin Catalyst Discovery Paves the Way for Sustainable CO2 Conversion
- New Autonomous System to Monitor Arctic's Melting Ice
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Novel 'living' Biomaterial Aims to Advance Regenerative Medicine
- Mantis Shrimp Clubs Filter Sound to Mitigate Damage
- Breakthrough in Opto-Magnetic Technology: 5-Fold Increase in Torque Efficiency
- Recycling the Unrecyclable: Reclaiming Materials from Epoxy Resins and Composites
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- 'Living' Electrodes Breathe New Life Into Traditional Silicon Electronics
- Researchers Discover Simple Solution to Break Down Forever Chemicals
- Physicists Measure a Key Aspect of Superconductivity in 'magic-Angle' Graphene
- Researchers Discover New Way to Customize Living Materials for Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery and 3D Printing