Tag: Engineers

A discovery by MIT researchers could finally unlock the door to the design of a new kind of rechargeable lithium ...

Springs, squeegees and soda straws function with a common property — they are rigid in one direction and flexible in ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Wearing a mask can help prevent the spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, but a mask’s effectiveness ...

HOUSTON – (Oct. 19, 2022) – It’s a mystery how human thoughts and dreams emerge from electrical pulses in the ...

Just like a pianist who learns to play their instrument without looking at the keys or a basketball player who ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Society of Women Engineers has bestowed awards on three Sandia National Laboratories employees. Senior scientist Tina ...

Malicious modifications to integrated circuits — called hardware trojans — can disrupt wireless communication and leak sensitive information, and the ...

The amount of energy used for computing is climbing at an exponential rate. Business intelligence and consulting firm Enerdata reports ...

Textile engineers have developed a fabric woven out of ultra-fine nano-threads made in part of phase-change materials and other advanced ...

Shape-memory metals, which can revert from one shape to a different one simply by being warmed or otherwise triggered, have ...

West Virginia University researchers are resurrecting discarded electronics, recycling electronic waste and recovering minerals from it to make new products critical ...

Advancements in 3D printing have made it easier for designers and engineers to customize projects, create physical prototypes at different ...

An interdisciplinary team of University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientists and engineers has developed a first-of-its-kind, plant-inspired extrusion process that ...

Scientists estimate that more than 95 percent of Earth’s oceans have never been observed, which means we have seen less ...

Two West Virginia University engineers are developing new technologies for coal waste storage facilities that will detect and prevent potential failures like ...

Engineers at Stanford University have created a small, autonomous device with a stretchable and flexible sensor that can be adhered ...

NuSense Technology — High Spatial Resolution Optical Sensors for Harsh Environments, an innovation developed through a collaboration between the University ...

People have been fascinated by bird flight for centuries, but exactly how birds can be so agile in the air ...

Harvard’s Office of Technology Development has granted an exclusive technology license to Adden Energy, Inc., a startup developing innovative solid-state ...

For as long as robots have existed, the fear of machines ousting humans for their jobs has persisted. Credit: WVU ...