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Bulletproof Origami Shield to Protect Police, School Children
The barrier can be folded when not in use. When expanded—which takes five seconds—it can provide cover for officers and stop bullets from several types of handguns.
MEMS-based Microscope Shrinks Inspection Equipment Cost
The MEMS-based device is about the size of a dime, and is mounted on a credit-card-sized printed circuit board that contains circuits, sensors, and other miniature components that control the microscope.
Big Data for the Minor Leagues
The sensors, which are wrapped in a protective case and distributed evenly in equipment, use inferencing algorithms that can track movement to within a few centimeters.
Ford Invests to Advance Driverless Car by 2021
Ford Motor Co. is investing to achieve its goal of delivering a fully driverless car without a steering wheel or a brake by 2021.
Stretchable Electronic Fabric Made by an Inkjet Printer
Engineering researchers have developed a stretchable smart fabric that can be created using an inkjet printer, raising the potential producing the material inexpensively.
Organo-metal Compound Kills Cancer Cells from Inside
The compound is said to be 50 times more active than the conventional cancer drug Cisplatin and more discriminating between healthy cells and cancer cells.
Cheap, Abundant Iron Salts Used as Catalyst
The core reaction portends economic gains for the pharmaceutical and agrichemical industries, its developers say.
Self-Healing Cement for Well Casings
Researchers at the U.S. Energy Department's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed cement that can heal itself when cracks occur.
License to Print Money at Home?
Even consumers who are technologically illiterate can make their money back within six months, and also earn an almost 1,000% return on their investment in a 3-D printer over a five-year period, researchers say.
India's Space Agency Launches 104 Satellites
India’s space agency put 104 satellites into orbit on February 15, reportedly the most in history, as it works to position itself as a destination for low-cost launches.
Lighten the Load and Save Energy
How can commercial office buildings be made more energy-efficient? The answer starts with reducing loads.
Sodium Bicarbonate: The Softer Blasting Abrasive
It is sometimes said that necessity is the mother of invention. And so it was with sodium bicarbonate's discovery as a gentle abrasive suitable for cleaning materials of coatings and contaminants without damaging the underlying substrate.
Ransomware May Pose a Threat to Industrial Process Controllers
Researchers at Georgia Tech developed a form of ransomware that took over a simulated water treatment plant and caused damage.
Graphene Foam Gets Big and Tough
A chunk of conductive graphene foam reinforced by carbon nanotubes can support more than 3,000 times its own weight and bounce back to its original height.
Stretchable Rubber Packs a Thermal Conductive Punch
The combination of high thermal conductivity and elasticity is critical for rapid heat dissipation in applications such as wearable computing and soft robotics
Engineered Material Can Cool with No Energy, Water Use
The metamaterial film cools the object underneath by reflecting incoming solar energy back into space while also allowing the surface to shed its own heat in the form of infrared thermal radiation.
NuScale Reactor Nears One Milestone, With More to Follow
NuScale is the first small modular reactor to have made it this far in the U.S. regulatory approval process. And it’s had some help.
Simulation Improves Oil Shale Formation Characterization
Engineers developed a computer simulation that mimic water, oil, and gas molecules’ relaxation properties and model how the molecules move in the highly restricted, “tight” pore formations.
Improving Wireless Systems for the Factory Floor
An ongoing study by a team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology aims to address the issues around using wireless communications on the factory floor.
Highest Dam in the U.S. Faces Threat
Residents below the Oroville Dam in California were ordered to evacuate after a hole developed in the dam's spillway during a water release. See photos and learn about the dam and its hydroelectric station.