Technology and Engineering

Scientists demonstrate that the information about host bacteria-bacteriophage (phage) associations derived from world`s first metagenome analysis is useful for the development of phage therapies against intestinal pathobionts.Credit:…

Zhi Tian, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, will receive funding from the National Science Foundation for a project in which she will develop communication-efficient and robust approaches to distributed stochastic…

Liang Zhao, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, and Yue Cheng, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Volgenau School of Engineering, are set to receive funding from the National Science Foundation for a project…

For the first time ever, researchers have linked 40 years of productivity data from the construction industry with the actual work done. The results explain the decline in productivity in the construction industry and suggests a way forward…

First comparison of natural-origin sorbent materials for land-based oil spills Oil spill disasters on land cause long-term damage for communities and the natural environment, polluting soils and sediments and contaminating groundwater.…

Credit: Gabriel Falzone/UCLA A UCLA research team has received a two-year, $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support development of a process that can convert carbon dioxide emissions into construction…

Credit: Kanazawa University Alkanes are major constituents of natural gas and oil, consisting of carbon and hydrogen atoms only. The C-H bonds of alkanes are chemically stable with low reactivity. Technologies that enable…

Group of biomedical engineers from biotech company Gruppo Fos Lithuania and researchers at Kaunas University of Technology and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences have patented a technology for advanced health monitoring of stroke…

A newly-discovered ability to stabilize and control exponential number of discrete magnetic states in a relatively simple structure may pave the way to multi-level magnetic memory with extremely large number of states per cell Spintronics…

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory ARPA-E's GEMINA funding will allow Argonne's nuclear scientists to partner with industry and develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow. When designing the next generation of nuclear power…

The prototype mask, which includes an N95 filter, can be easily sterilized and worn many timesCredit: MIT/Brigham and Women's Hospital CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have designed a new face mask…

Group argues broad Interpretation could make some forms of computing research federal crimesCredit: Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery's US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) filed an…

Insilico Medicine and Arctoris announced a technology partnership to jointly discover and profile new therapeutics against COVID-19 by combining robotics and AICredit: Insilico Thursday, 9th of July - Insilico Medicine, a…

Through DOE's Technology Commercialization Fund, the national lab-startup team will develop "nanocages" for nuclear applicationsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--A research proposal submitted by the Center…

Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Genetically speaking, the loaf of bread you stress-baked during the COVID-19 shutdown is more complex than you think. Wheat's 16 billion genes, organized in not one but…

Researchers use artificial intelligence to analyse hundreds of thousands of Instagram posts about vapingCredit: Aqdas Malik, Aalto University E-cigarettes are highly addictive nicotine products with unclear health impacts,…

Study with Vanderbilt University shows how the body's attempts to repair damage may instead contribute to severe lung disease PHOENIX, Ariz. -- July 8, 2020 -- A groundbreaking study published today and led by the Translational Genomics…

IMDEA Networks researcher Antonio Fernández Anta launched his innovative method for measuring the incidence of the pandemic in mid-March in Spain The project called CoronaSurveys was created to "Measure the Iceberg" and was based on the…

New insight into the spin behavior in an exotic state of matter puts us closer to next-generation spintronic devicesCredit: Tokyo University of Science Aside from the deep understanding of the natural world that quantum physics…

Kai Ruggeri's research has one overriding objective: to improve the well-being of populations by confronting inequality. He is a behavioral scientist at Columbia who uses data science to design interventions and recommend policies that…