Going gentle on mechanical quantum systems
When thinking about quantum mechanical systems, single photons and well-isolated ions and atoms may spring to mind, or electrons spreading ...
Tag: Mechanical
Lehigh University mechanical engineering professor John P. Coulter named ASME Fellow
John P. Coulter, a professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics and senior associate dean for research in Lehigh University’s P.C. ...
Image-based mechanical simulations improve accuracy in gauging healing progress of bone fractures
When you first break a bone, the body sends out an inflammatory response, and cells begin to form a hematoma ...
New hardware integrates mechanical devices into quantum tech
Stanford University researchers have developed a key experimental device for future quantum physics-based technologies that borrows a page from current, ...
Mechanical blood clot removal led to good recovery in half of stroke patients
Embargoed until 11:25 a.m. CT/ 12:25 p.m. ET, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022 NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 11, 2022 — Mechanical removal ...
Children with severe stroke may fare better if treatment includes mechanical clot removal
Embargoed until 11:25 a.m. CT/ 12:25 p.m. ET Friday, Feb. 11, 2022 NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 11, 2022 — Serious disability ...
Mechanical clot removal may restore more function than medication alone after severe stroke
Embargoed until 11:45 a.m. CT/12:45 p.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9, 2022 — Stroke patients previously ...
UTSW study finds mechanical hearts can regenerate some heart tissue
Mechanical hearts spur some regeneration in dormant parts of failing hearts, according to a UT Southwestern pilot study that shows ...
Strobe light for 5G: NIST imaging system spotlights the tiny mechanical hearts at the core of every cellphone
Inside every cellphone lies a tiny mechanical heart, beating several billion times a second. These micromechanical resonators play an essential ...
Mechanical control of a reconfigurable intelligent surface
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are a type of programmable structure that can be used to control the propagation of electromagnetic ...
Research team at NYU Tandon discovers mechanical basis for abdominal aortic aneurysm
BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, January 26, 2022 – Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a complex and life-threatening vascular disease with ...
Mechanical engineer awarded $2.1 million NIH grant to launch clinical trial for exoskeleton technology
Mechanical engineer and inventor Zach Lerner, assistant professor in Northern Arizona University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded $2.1 ...
$4.6 million NIH grant to study mechanical ventilator protocols for COVID and other critically-ill ICU patients
Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City have received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health ...
Origami, kirigami inspire mechanical metamaterials designs
WASHINGTON, November 23, 2021 -- The ancient arts of origami, the art of paper-folding, and kirigami, the art of paper-cutting, ...
New study shows how to power electronics using mechanical motion
The push towards low powered, energy-saving devices has been a direction the electronics industry has always pursued. The switch to ...
Researchers shed new light on mechanical regulation of epithelial tissue homeostasis
An international team of scientists, led by Professor Ana-Sunčane Smith from the Croatian Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) and the Friedrich-Alexander University ...
Creating order by mechanical deformation in dense active matter
Living or biological systems cannot be easily understood using the standard laws of physics, such as thermodynamics, as scientists would ...
Mechanical buckling of petals produces iridescent patterns visible to bees
Flowers are employing a materials science phenomenon typically associated with failures in structural engineering to produce exquisite three-dimensional petal patterns ...