A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has shown for the first time that CO2 hydrates can remain stable in oceanic sediments for up to 30 days. The technology opens up the possibility of sequestering large volumes of carbon emissions in deep-ocean geological formations to meet carbon-neutrality targets.
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering is addressing growing climate and environmental challenges with a newly launched sustainable engineering initiative devoted to developing comprehensive engineering solutions, and encouraging their deployment and adoption.
Brooks Rehabilitation recently announced that the MagTrack study, a collaborative research endeavor with the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been successfully completed.
In this Q&A, ALS senior staff scientist David Shapiro and Stanford materials science professor William Chueh share how their pioneering X-ray techniques can help researchers understand how battery materials work in real time at the atomic scale.
ROCKVILLE, MD – The 31 winners of the annual Student Research Achievement Awards were recognized at the 66th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 21, 2022. These students were selected by judges from the Society’s Subgroups for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition.
A uniform charging field makes this new transmitter ideal for consumer devices.
ASU researchers have succeeded in identifying a technique that makes cadmium, selenium and telluride (CdSeTe) solar cells more efficient than silicon cells.
Riccardo Scarcelli named a fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
By using a synthetic scaffold, Georgia Tech researchers created a novel way generate breast tumor models faster, more reliably, and with dramatically less immune variability than existing models - making them highly suitable for immunotherapy research.
The National Academy of Engineering has elected UF professor Michele Manuel, Ph.D., to join the organization’s ranks, among the highest professional honors in engineering for those who have distinguished themselves in academia, private industry or government agencies.
March is Women’s History Month, and the fact that you’re reading these words on a phone, tablet or computer screen is partly due to the work of information technology professionals. However, as recently as October, a study by the nonprofit AnitaB.org found that half of the women in the computing field were still feeling the effects of being a minority.
Two new research projects from the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been selected by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute to receive funding to develop tools that will address critical aspects of robotic manufacturing technologies.
Babu Chalamala, an engineer and manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ energy storage group, was recently elected fellow of two prestigious national societies. On Jan. 26, he became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. On Dec. 7, he became a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, or ASHRAE, selected Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Brian Fricke as one of 25 members elevated to fellow grade during its 2022 winter conference.
ORNL story tips: Beneath the skin, crustacean-inspired cotton, automating clean water, samples in space and capturing furnace emissions
A prestigious list published by Elsevier, an international information and analytics company, has recognized 19 engineering faculty at the University of Oklahoma who are using their research expertise to create solutions for the world’s toughest challenges.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have provided input on Microsoft’s pathway to become carbon negative by 2030. LLNL researchers built on their pivotal report “Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California," which has become a trusted adviser in the discussion of how to remove carbon dioxide from the air, to make recommendations to Microsoft.
Clemson University and the United States Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) announced an additional $22 million for a research partnership aimed at developing innovative virtual prototyping tools for designing the next generation of on- and off-road vehicles, with the U.
Wei Chen, Ph.D., and Javier Jo, Ph.D., faculty in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, have been elected to the College of Fellows by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. The institute’s College of Fellows is composed of the top 2% of medical and biological engineers in the United States. Chen and Jo were elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for advancing the clinical translation of optical imaging and pioneering its integration with machine learning methods to enable personalized medicine.
A new study tracked lithium metal deposition and removal from a battery anode while it was cycling to find clues as to how failure occurs. The research could help improve the use of pure lithium metal in anodes for electric vehicle batteries, which would reduce battery weights and dramatically extend driving range.
Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards this year, including Most Promising Scientist in Government, Research Leadership, Science Spectrum Trailblazers and Modern-Day Technology Leaders.
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Researchers in the lab of Peng Bai at the McKelvey School of Engineering have discovered the key to making a stable, safe battery.
A number of different kinds of engineering are required to bring the APS Upgrade online.
Prof. Debra Laefer is the first woman to receive the G-I’s prestigious Harry Schnabel Jr. Award since the award’s debut in 2007.
An object hidden below ground has been located using quantum technology - a long-awaited milestone with profound implications for industry, human knowledge and national security.
Self-organizing microparticle groups reverse their motion when an electric field is stopped and then reapplied, a result that could help generate new tiny pumps.
New study, published Feb. 23, 2022, in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), analyzed the reasons for 1.6 million downloads of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) consensus reports, considered among the highest credibility science-based literature.
Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Mailman School of Public Health have invented a system that can automatically take temperature readings of people walking by, going about their own business, up to three meters away--no one has to stand in front of a camera for a few seconds to take a measurement. And no one needs to be there to read the measurement and approve the person’s entry.
The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Engineering will establish a concentration in Systems Modeling and Simulation under the Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering (IMSE) Department, thanks to a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The new degree path will allow graduate engineering students to enhance their knowledge in data analytics, computer simulation, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and machine learning for dynamic production and operations systems.
HPCWire magazine recently announced Argonne award winners for research in high performance computing.
Researchers have used sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells, in a tissue engineering advance that could one day help patients regrow bone lost to cancer or degenerative disease.
In Physics of Fluids, researchers show that fish, through precise control of body fluctuations, generate movable vortex pairs of high- and low-pressure regions that enable them to swim. They used particle image velocimetry and high-speed cameras to analyze the spontaneous swimming of zebrafish in a tank, and the findings provide the groundwork in the design of flexible structures for a high-performance underwater bionic propeller.
Noise barriers or improved wheel systems and brakes that are less noisy are not the only ways to reduce railway noise for close-by residents. An inconspicuous component under the tracks is a source of hope for a research team including Empa scientists.
Top officials from the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy visited the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory recently to discuss how to accelerate the development of fusion energy as a clean, abundant, and safe way to generate electricity.
Three of Argonne’s rising stars take an introspective look at their careers and research in advance of Argonne’s OutLoud virtual public event.
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have developed an inexpensive way to transform an ordinary shirt into an electronic smart shirt—one able to monitor and adjust body temperature or even allow the wearer to apply heat to a sore shoulder or back. All from a design printed on the fabric of the shirt or any other piece of clothing.
The ratings, which are built on years of Virginia Tech’s research and expertise in injury biomechanics, provide a unique, evidence-based way for consumers to know which helmets offer the best protection.
Yushan Yan, a University of Delaware engineering professor and expert in electrochemical engineering for sustainability, has been granted one of the highest professional distinctions in his field through election to the National Academy of Engineering.
A new imaging technology from the lab of Matthew Lew at the McKelvey School of Engineering uses polarized “optical vortices” to provide a detailed, dynamic view of molecules in motion.
Omar Abdul-Aziz, an engineer at West Virginia University, has developed a model that can be utilized on any body of water to predict levels of dissolved oxygen, a contributor to water quality.
An international team from Aalto University, Delft University of Technology, and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is working to find out just what happens when 200-metre tall wind turbines meet seriously frosty conditions, like those seen in Northern Europe’s Baltic Sea, North America’s Great Lakes or China’s Bohai Bay.
Researchers from the RIKEN Guardian Robot Project in Japan have made an android child named Nikola that successfully conveys six basic emotions.
The Argonne-led XCEL initiative is steadily improving lithium-ion batteries to accommodate fast charging for electric cars and trucks.
The two designed a system to help researchers gather and narrow down the scientific papers that are most relevant to their work.
To give students from underrepresented communities the opportunity to learn and discover alongside professional scientists, Argonne offers First Look at Argonne, which connects students to undergrad programs at the Lab.
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DOE funding across 22 states will drive the development and commercial deployment of advanced technologies for fusion energy, electric vehicles, offshore wind and more.
We find the claim about the overall environmental impact of electric vehicles misleading.
Self-assembling protein molecules are versatile materials for medical applications because their ability to form gels. Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, led by Jin Kim Montclare, used passive microrheology to explore the phase behavior of gelating protein-based macromolecules.
Researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering are building a reputation for precision targeting in drug delivery. Their tools: tiny lipid-based nanoparticles (LNPs) that can be fine tuned to latch on to specific tissues, organs, even cell types within the body. Their latest creation: LNPs that carry genetic instructions directly into the lungs.
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