Engineering
Nuclear power shutdowns won’t spike power prices
Owners of both Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, and Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station, west of Pittsburgh, have cited financial ...
Robots learn by checking in on team members
The software and hardware needed to co-ordinate a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can communicate and work toward ...
An elastic fiber filled with electrodes set to revolutionize smart ...
It’s a whole new way of thinking about sensors. The tiny fibers developed at EPFL are made of elastomer and ...
The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off
Insect-sized flying robots could help with time-consuming tasks like surveying crop growth on large farms or sniffing out gas leaks. ...
500-year-old Leaning Tower of Pisa mystery unveiled by engineers
Why has the Leaning Tower of Pisa survived the strong earthquakes that have hit the region since the middle ages? ...
Can this invasive exotic pest make better materials for industry ...
IMAGE: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined derivatives of two surplus materials–wood pulp and ...
World’s first solar fuels reactor for night passes test at ...
International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any ...
What is a marine GPS and what can you do ...
Marine GPS units have been around for quite a while, and they seem to be making a difference when it ...
Alaskan microgrids offer energy resilience and independence
The electrical grid in the contiguous United States is a behemoth of interconnected systems. If one section fails or ...
World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot hands’
MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 – Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to surgically treat ...
