Defying the Laws of Physics? Columbia Engineers Demonstrate Bubbles of Sand
A recent discovery by Columbia Engineering researchers explains a new family of gravitational instabilities in granular particles of different densities that are driven by a gas-channeling mechanism not seen in fluids. The team observed an...
26-Apr-2019 1:00 AM EDT
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New Technique Produces Longer-lasting Lithium Batteries
Columbia Engineering researchers have developed a new method for safely prolonging battery life by inserting a nano-coating of boron nitride (BN) to stabilize solid electrolytes in lithium metal batteries. The team focused on solid, ceramic...
19-Apr-2019 9:05 AM EDT
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Bacterial Therapy in a Dish
Biomedical engineers have developed a system that can study 10s to 100s of programmed bacteria within mini-tissues in a dish, condensing study time from months to days. The speed and high throughput of their technology allows for stable growth of...
19-Apr-2019 4:05 PM EDT
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New App Can Secure All Your Saved Emails
Columbia Engineering researchers develop Easy Email Encryption, an app that encrypts all saved emails to prevent hacks and leaks, is easy to install and use, and works with popular email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
26-Mar-2019 9:40 AM EDT
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Robotic “Gray Goo”
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), demonstrate for the first time a way to make a robot composed of many loosely coupled components, or “particles.” Unlike swarm or modular robots,...
18-Mar-2019 5:05 PM EDT
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Neurofeedback Gets You Back in the Zone
Columbia Engineering researchers have shown—for the first time—that they can use online neurofeedback to modify an individual's arousal state to improve performance in a demanding sensory motor task, such as flying a plane or driving in...
12-Mar-2019 2:05 PM EDT
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Fast, Flexible Ionic Transistors for Bioelectronic Devices
Columbia researchers have developed the first biocompatible internal-ion-gated organic electrochemical transistor (IGT) that is fast enough to enable real-time signal sensing and stimulation of brain signals. The IGT provides a miniaturized, soft,...
27-Feb-2019 2:05 PM EST
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A Step Closer to Self-Aware Machines
Columbia Engineers have created a robot that learns what it is, with zero prior knowledge of physics, geometry, or motor dynamics. Initially the robot has no clue what its shape is. After a brief period of “babbling,” and within about a day of...
28-Jan-2019 4:05 PM EST
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