Technology and Engineering

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers led by The University of Tokyo employed a new computer model to simulate the networks of force-carrying particles that give amorphous solids…

A multisite clinical trial, led by USF Health and Tampa General Hospital, provides the first evidence that both devices are comparable for accurate detection of COVID-19 infectionCredit: © USF Health|University of South Florida TAMPA,…

Berkeley Lab scientists develop a tool that could drastically speed up the ability to design new biological systemsCredit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab If you've eaten vegan burgers that taste like meat or used synthetic collagen in your…

Understanding how viruses invade host cell protein-making machineryCredit: Stasevich Lab/Colorado State University Infectious viruses come in many shapes and sizes and use slightly different attack mechanisms to make humans and animals…

Available via royalty-free license agreementCredit: Courtesy NSWC-Crane A federal research facility in Crane, Indiana, has developed a temperature scanning sensor system and software to help contain the coronavirus. The U.S. Naval…

I-Connect web-based system adaptable for home education, shares data with mentors LAWRENCE -- Many students face challenges staying focused and on task in the classroom. Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed many homes into…

Dr Alex Taylor invites an examination of life as normal In his paper, Life Less Normal, published in the July-August 2020 special edition of the Association of Computing Machinery's journal, Interactions, City, University of London's…

Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Aqua satellite caught a visible image of Dolphin after it passed east central Japan on Sept. 24, where it became an…

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Using a NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations, NASA estimated Post-tropical Cyclone Beta's rainfall rates as it moved over Mississippi, Alabama and…

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Future technology may be able to monitor and modify the brain to produce enhanced team performance, while increasing the efficiency and accuracy of decisions. The U.S. Army may be able to use this…

Self-erasing chips developed at the University of Michigan could help stop counterfeit electronics or provide alerts if sensitive shipments are tampered with. They rely on a new material that temporarily stores energy, changing the…

Credit: Hiroki Ota, Yokohama National University Elastic can stretch too far and that could be problematic in wearable sensors. A team of researchers at Yokohama National University has proposed a fix to prevent too much stretching…

Credit: UT Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have examined how manufacturers are -- or aren't -- pivoting successfully in response to major manufacturing disruptions as a consequence of the COVID-19…

Apps such as Uber are an important mobility feature in many big cities. Driving others from A to B in their own car has become a job for many people. However, many drivers complain that their income is too low. In May 2019, the US…

Credit: University of East Anglia Researchers at the University of East Anglia have been putting virtual reality rehabilitation for stroke survivors to the test. They have created a new gaming platform which uses low cost…

Credit: Garuda Fujii, Institute of Engineering, Shinshu University, Japan Topology-optimized thermal cloak-concentrator realizes excellent cloaking and concentrating simultaneously although it is built of a simple composition. The…

The explosive growth of internet use leads to an explosion of the energy consumption of data centers. Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers VCSELs are key enabling devices meeting the requirements of optical interconnects in such data…

Gruthan Bioscience was recently awarded funding to develop a novel class of cholesterol-lowering drugs to treat a rare form of familial hypercholesterolemia; It could one day be used to treat high cholesterol more widelyCredit: Image…

Variation in just three brain genes predicts how well a medication will work in treating a patient with alcohol use disorder, report Medical University of South Carolina researchersCredit: Medical University of South Carolina …

The long-awaited photonic technique could change the way optical technologies are developed and used over the next decade BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - The colloidal diamond has been a dream of researchers since the…