A new Australian review of existing research suggests that "speed cameras" and other devices can reduce automobile accident rates by allowing authorities to detect and cite speeders as they zip down the road.
Brenner Children's Hospital is one of few children's hospitals in the United States using the latest computed tomography (CT) technology in an emergency setting "“ providing a more accurate diagnosis in a shorter period of time.
Biology inspires engineers to design low-power circuits.
University of South Florida computer science students have built and tested an intelligent scarecrow that guards fish farm ponds from predator birds through image processing and loud, artificial gun blasts and water cannons.
Saint Louis University is pioneering the use of robotic dogs in nursing homes as geriatrics researchers study whether a mechanical canine can help residents feel less lonely.
Rowan University's softball team catcher knows what it's like to play in pain. An engineering student, she's now looking for a solution.
Engineers at Purdue University have developed a tiny "micro-pump" cooling device small enough to fit on a computer chip that circulates coolant through channels etched into the chip.
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center (LRC) have developed a simple, cost-effective, energy-saving device designed to harvest daylight automatically. The DaySwitchâ„¢ was designed as an alternative to traditional dimming ballast systems that adjust light levels by reducing the lamp current.
Child pornographers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, that can reliably link digital images to the camera with which they were taken, in much the same way that tell-tale scratches are used by forensic examiners to link bullets to the gun that fired them.
A study of how electrons behave in circuitry made from ultrathin layers of graphite "“ known as graphene "“ suggests the material could provide the foundation for a new generation of nanometer scale devices that manipulate electrons as waves "“ much like photonic systems control light waves.
Grand Valley State University is using the latest technology, that is a familiar part of the way students live, to teach them foreign language, culture and history. A pilot program conducted in intermediate French classes provided each student with an iPod to use as a portable language lab, research tool and study buddy.
A globe-spanning constellation of six satellites expected to improve weather forecasts, monitor climate change, and enhance space weather research will head into orbit on Fri. April 14, 2006. Barring delays, a Minotaur rocket is scheduled to launch the array at 5:10 p.m. Pacific time from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central Calif. coast.
In IEEE Spectrum's special January issue, the focus is on "winners and losers" from many technologies and several continents.
A Sandia National Laboratories robot recently withstood enough radiation to kill 40 men in freeing a stuck radiation source -- the size of a restaurant salt shaker -- at a White Sands Missile Range lab so that the cylinder could be safely returned to its insulated base.
A new concept integrates LED technology with building materials and systems. The design includes modular panels with integrated LED lighting fixtures that "snap" in and out of an electrical grid, allowing occupants to change the location of light fixtures and room design on a whim.
Researchers have known for some time that a long, fibrous coil grown by a single-cell protozoan is, gram for gram, more powerful than a car engine. Now, researchers have found that this coil is far stronger than previously thought, discovering clues into the mechanism behind this microscopic powerhouse.
Clarkson University Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and "spoofing" expert Stephanie Schuckers' research demonstrates how using simple casts made from a mold and material such as Play-doh, clay or gelatin can be used to fool most fingerprint recognition devices.
Steven W. Van Sciver, an expert in cryogenics at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, is working with a technology company on the first phase of a grant to help prove the concept behind a patent-pending cryogenic technique for particle separation from a few microns down to submicrons.
A Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has developed a process that increases the hardness and improves the ballistic performance of the material used by the U.S. military for body armor. The researcher's start-up company is commercializing the technology.
As airline travel peaks for the Thanksgiving holiday, a newly completed wind tunnel at the University of Florida may help reduce the noise of commercial airplanes as they fly over homes and neighborhoods.
The friendly facial expressions, the soothing hand gestures, the coolly intelligent voice: Put them all together, and she is both disarmingly lifelike and surprisingly persuasive.
Akira Tokuhiro, a K-State associate professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering, is combining two research areas, biometrics -- including facial expressions -- and robotics, to combat terrorism.
Echoes of a "hydrogen economy" are reverberating across the country, but a number of roadblocks stand in the way. One of the biggest is the high cost of manufacturing fuel cells. A new project aims to tackle the challenge of mass production by using robots to assemble fuel cell stacks.
Clarkson University has announced an experimental fuel-saving device that may help revolutionize the trucking industry. The device reduces the "drag" on tractor trailers, thereby increasing fuel efficiency by some 10% and reducing costs and emissions.
Researchers are developing a mechanical cochlea, a device that functions much like its human counterpart in the ear. Yet, because it is composed of micromachined parts and integrated circuits, the apparatus should be inexpensive to manufacture and could potentially capture a range of frequencies well beyond those of human hearing.
A partnership between Clarkson University researchers and an entrepreneur is transferring chemical process technology from the laboratory to the biofuels marketplace. Their efforts promise to contribute to energy independence and improve the economics of the biodiesel industry.
Sandia, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, and Sierra Monolithics demonstrated the Athena Radar-Responsive Tag during a recent military exercise in the U.K. Aircraft on bombing runs used their radar systems to spot unique signals from Athena tags carried on vehicles belonging to friendly forces.
The most important device of the 20th century was invented not just once, but twice.
How can the common housefly execute exquisitely precise and complex aerobatics with less computational might than an electric toaster?
Imagine an entire biotechnology laboratory reduced to the size of a pea and placed on a computer chip. Research to develop applications for this technology is also leading to establishment of a unique international engineering Ph.D. program.
For years scientists have had a problem with providing continuous power to sensors and electronic equipment in remote places. Now, scientists have devised a power cell that will provide continuous power for years.
An effort to transmit 150 times more electric power through long-length high-temperature superconductors as compared to conventional copper wire is the goal of a cooperative research and development agreement between the Department of Energy's ORNL and Metal Oxide Technologies.
Virginia Tech's "Cliff" and "Rocky" are among an elite group of 23 autonomous vehicles that will rev their engines on Saturday, Oct. 8 at the starting line of the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge race through the Mojave Desert.
A pilot treatment system developed by the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories that tests technologies to remove arsenic from water, supplied by a number of vendors, will be demonstrated at a Rio Rancho well site on Oct. 10 at 1:30 p.m.
A team of Cornell University engineers has built a self-driving vehicle to enter the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, in which a vehicle must cross 175 miles of battlefield-like terrain entirely under computer control.
Flying cars are everywhere"¦ large regions of the earth are under transparent domes with controlled weather...elsewhere, single buildings rise miles into the sky...huge areas of the ocean are covered with solar cells...tiny cameras watch everyone everywhere all the time, making sure crime does not pay...
A satellite equipped with novel solar antennas will be part of the payload on the Russian rocket Cosmos, scheduled for launch September 30 from Plesetsk, Russia. This satellite incorporates advanced technology that combines antenna functions and solar cells on a single surface. (French and German versions available)
In a demonstration that could foretell the future of videoconferencing, scientific visualization and digital cinema deployment, scientists at iGrid 2005 were treated to the world's first real-time, international transmission of super high-definition digital video.
The shutoff date for analog television will open the door to a host of new services.
Around the world, people in less-developed countries reap the benefits of the Internet without owning computers or, in some cases, even knowing how to read.
Cognitive radios can seemingly adapt to their environment and learn. Now Virginia Tech's Center for Wireless Telecommunications, with NSF funding, will develop a cognitive engine to allow the radios to share a distributed knowledge base to use for individual and collective reasoning and learning.
U.S. National Science Foundation Director Arden L. Bement, Jr. and Japanese deputy education, science and technology minister Tetsuhisa Shirakawa signed an agreement sign on Sept. 11 to enhance both countries' efforts to work together to combat the devastation of natural disasters.
Chris Wyatt is a Virginia Tech electrical engineer who is attempting to provide the medical community with better, quicker, and more relevant images of the human body. The side effects are not bad either "“"“ lower medical costs, new treatments, and earlier disease detection.
A concept vehicle designed to illustrate potential technology options for improving survivability and mobility in future military combat vehicles will be shown publicly for the first time Sept. 13-15 at a military technology meeting in Virginia.
A new solar-powered underwater robot technology developed for undersea observation and water monitoring will be showcased at a Sept. 16 workshop on leading-edge robotics to be held at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Va.
On Sept. 16, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will host more than a dozen robots and their creators to showcase advanced robotics technology from across the nation.
Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountaintop near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronomers today released the first images captured by the Southern African Large Telescope, now the equal of the world's largest optical telescope and a prized window to the night skies of the southern hemisphere.
A grad student at UC San Diego has released the beta version of open-source software that allows users to make a change to a computer file on one machine, and have that change happen to files located on other devices.
A versatile technology that can spot cracks in space shuttle foam, while also offering the potential to see biological agents through a sealed envelope and detect tumors without harmful radiation, will be the focus of a full-day symposium at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
The military's next generation of airborne drones won't be just small and silent "“ they'll also dive between buildings, zoom under overpasses and land on apartment balconies.
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