Technology and Engineering

Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Nowadays, agriculture is going to become AI-native: Skoltech researchers have used the Zhores supercomputer to perform a very precise sensitivity analysis to reveal crucial parameters for different…

WiFi-based software stresses individual privacy in digital contact tracingCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Researchers at the Center for Smart and Connected Society at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently released…

Thomas LaToza, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Volgenau School of Engineering, is set to begin a project aimed at creating a community research infrastructure for conducting software engineering user studies. As part of this…

The Institute of Rail Research launches £1.8m project to improve maintenance of the UK's railway rolling stock A new £1.8m project led by the University of Huddersfield is investigating how cutting edge-technology and data analysis could…

Texas A&M researchers use intelligent software to classify and portray hidden cracks in solid materialsCredit: Dr. Siddarth Misra/Texas A&M University College of Engineering Pressures, liquids and temperature changes create…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- When it comes to training neural circuits for tissue engineering or biomedical applications, a new study suggests a key parameter: Train them young. Techniques for training engineered neural circuits usually involve…

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Researchers demonstrated the success of a fully implantable wireless medical device called a stentrode brain-computer interface designed to improve functional independence in patients with severe paralysis. The abstract…

Evidence of racial disparities also found in stroke thrombectomy management and outcomes FAIRFAX, Va. -- Two new studies indicate that racial disparities related to outcomes exist among stroke patients, including one study that…

Innovative method offers a new way of studying developmental cardiac biomechanics, live in 4DCredit: Wang and Larina. How a valveless embryonic heart tube pumps blood is a long-standing scientific mystery. Thanks to innovations in…

Credit: Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Tropical Storm Isaias has transitioned into a post-tropical storm as it moved out of the U.S. and into eastern Canada on Aug. 5 and…

Credit: U.S. Army photo ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Human facial expressions could be one of the keys in building trust between Soldiers and autonomous agents. "We wanted to characterize and quantify factors that…

Credit: Horizon31, LLC Horizon31, LLC, of Knoxville, Tenn., has exclusively licensed a novel communication system that allows users to reliably operate unmanned vehicles such as drones from anywhere in the world using only an…

How growth rates influence the fitness of bacteriaCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Bacteria are survival artists: When they get nutrition, they multiply rapidly, albeit they can also survive periods of hunger. But, when…

Study provides better understanding of plants' carbon uptakeCredit: Mindy Takamiya (https://www.mindytakamiya.com/) Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report that anthropogenic sources of carbonyl sulfide (OCS),…

Researchers from NJIT and CHOP identified sites of methylation that could not be found with existing sequencing methods Philadelphia and Newark, N.J. August 6, 2020 - A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and…

Credit: UBC The past few months have been a highly unusual time as people sheltered in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Schools, streets and stadiums fell silent, tourist hot spots became ghost towns, and sidewalk…

University of Arizona scientists and engineers are developing a solar-powered desalination system to recover water from concentrated waste streams with maximum efficiency.Credit: University of Arizona Reverse osmosis is one of the…

As the global count of COVID-19 infections heads towards the 20M mark, the pandemic has created what the World Health Organisation calls an 'infodemic', giving conspiracy groups a bigger platform than ever before.Credit: QUT Marketing and…

Lithium lanthanum titanate particles enable high power densities even in micrometer sizes - publication in Nature CommunicationsCredit: Julia Maibach, KIT Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin…

As part of Cambridge University Press's continuing focus on open access, five of its journals will publish with Hindawi Limited under a new collaborative publishing agreement. Beginning in January 2021 (with submissions open from this…