Technology and Engineering

UTA engineer works with TxDOT to evaluate strength, remaining life of Texas bridgesCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineering professor is developing non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques,…

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Lowell using infrared light to determine the strength of the storm. Infrared imagery revealed that the strongest storms were around Lowell's center…

Series of studies reveal conditions under which humans more likely to have virtual intermediaries act deceptively Recently computer scientists at USC Institute of Technologies (ICT) set out to assess under what conditions humans would…

Team of interdisciplinary Pitt professors receive $1 million NSF award to create at-home glaucoma monitoring device Diabetic patients monitor their blood glucose throughout the day, watching for peaks and valleys. Just taking a sample once…

New maths on US infection rates helps identify COVID turning pointsCredit: Max Menzies and Nick James Mathematicians have developed a framework to determine when regions enter and exit COVID-19 infection surge periods,…

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Tropical Storm Paulette just reformed in the central North Atlantic Ocean today, Sept. 22. Using a NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations, NASA…

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite used infrared light to identify strongest storms and coldest cloud top temperatures in Hurricane Teddy as it nears eastern Canada. Teddy has triggered multiple warnings and watches.…

Thirty-one US states plus DC were experiencing a second wave of COVID-19 cases while 13 others were still in the first wave at the end of JulyCredit: Nick James and Max Menzies WASHINGTON, September 22, 2020 -- As the COVID-19…

Identified materials could improve safety and performanceCredit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford University Stanford University scientists have identified a new class of solid materials that could replace flammable liquid electrolytes in…

Credit: University of Warwick - Lithium (Li)-ion batteries (LIBs) are the electrochemical energy storage systems of choice for a wide variety of applications, however other types of emerging battery technologies are currently on…

Credit: © 2020 KAUST Harsh environments that are inhospitable to existing technologies could now be monitored using sensors based on graphene. An intriguing form of carbon, graphene comprises layers of interconnected hexagonal…

SwabBot™ reduces healthcare worker's risk of exposure to COVID-19 infection Singapore - A group of clinicians from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Duke-NUS Medical School has…

New study finds that large, multi-national organizations are not always crucial to local supply chains From toilet paper to industrial chemicals, there's no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has been disruptive to global supply chains. But…

Study suggests population density affects type of inventions COLUMBUS, Ohio - The disruptive inventions that make people go "Wow!" tend to come from research in the heart of cities and not in the suburbs, a new study suggests.…

Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University scientists have engineered a key plant enzyme and introduced it in Escherichia coli bacteria in order to create an optimal experimental environment for studying how to…

3D nonlinear ferro-fluid-based hyperbolic metamaterials may contribute to ultra-fast all-optical hyper-computingCredit: V. Smolyaninova et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056001 Metamaterials--nanoengineered structures designed for…

A team of scientists from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., has developed a new tool that mimics how SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 --…

Credit: Kundu et al. (2020) PNAS PITTSBURGH, Sept. 21. 2020 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering have created a machine-learning algorithm…

Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of recently formed Tropical Depression 14W as it strengthened into a tropical storm.…

Rice University engineers use machine learning to speed bioscaffold developmentCredit: Mikos Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 21, 2020) - A dose of artificial intelligence can speed the development of…