Simple shell of plant virus sparks immune response against cancer
The shells of a common plant virus, inhaled into a lung tumor or injected into ovarian, colon or breast tumors, not only triggered the immune system in mice to wipe out the tumors, but provided...
View ArticleShiny fish skin inspires nanoscale light reflectors
A nature-inspired method to model the reflection of light from the skin of silvery fish and other organisms may be possible, according to Penn State researchers.
View ArticleAutomatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order to produce new repairs for a...
View ArticleLow-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to...
MIT researchers have developed a low-power chip for processing 3-D camera data that could help visually impaired people navigate their environments. The chip consumes only one-thousandth as much power...
View ArticleThe secret to 3-D graphene? Just freeze it
Graphene is a wonder material saddled with great expectations. Discovered in 2004, it is 1 million times thinner than a human hair, 300 times stronger than steel and it's the best known conductor of...
View ArticleUsing chemical oscillation to better understand patterns in brain and heart...
An electrical and systems engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has designed a method that, figuratively, forces a leopard to change its spots.
View ArticleFinding Zika one paper disc at a time
An international, multi-institutional team of researchers led by synthetic biologist James Collins, Ph.D. at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, has...
View ArticleJohnson Controls to spend $245M on N. America battery plants
Auto parts supplier Johnson Controls says it will sink $245 million into building automotive batteries to handle increasing demand for electrical devices in cars and trucks.
View ArticleNASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit around mighty Jupiter
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system's largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter's orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had...
View ArticleUTA aerospace engineering graduate first to flight test UAV with...
A recently graduated University of Texas at Arlington student is the first person to successfully flight test an unmanned aerial vehicle that uses moving weights in its wings instead of traditional...
View ArticleSteering clear of distracted driving
Researchers in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University are making cars smarter and driving safer through cutting-edge technology and research.
View ArticleScientist blazes the way for 3-D printing in Middle East
Metal additive manufacturing service bureaus are located in many regions over the world, but the Middle East is not one of them. Dr. Alaa Elwany, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and...
View ArticleDetecting and correcting factory faults, cyberattacks in real time
Spotting a glitch on the factory floor in real time—and reconfiguring around it—are the goals of a new $4 million project led by University of Michigan engineering researchers.
View ArticleResearcher strives for on-demand evolution enabling cells to conduct specific...
In the right hands, the 88 keys on a piano offer unlimited creative possibilities. To a talented bioengineer, the molecules of the human genome likewise enable compositions of enormous complexity and...
View ArticleSoaring to faster production
Preparing for the take off of faster production, Lockheed Martin and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University are investigating the use of advanced industrial...
View ArticleNew food-ordering formula could lead to less food waste in buffet-style...
In a 2013 study conducted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), researchers estimated one third of all food produced for human consumption in the world is lost or wasted....
View ArticleSatellite scheduling—solving equations to capture the world
Roughly 1,400 satellites surround the word today, with 500 of those launched by the United States. While they all have various duties and capabilities, it is of utmost importance to correctly and...
View ArticleArtificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions—about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain...
View ArticleBig data technique shrinks data sets while preserving their fundamental...
One way to handle big data is to shrink it. If you can identify a small subset of your data set that preserves its salient mathematical relationships, you may be able to perform useful analyses on it...
View ArticleTechnique to prevent the falsification of Galileo navigational signals
The European Union activated its Galileo satellite navigation system in December 2016. The EU is dedicated to setting this system apart from other navigation systems such as GPS—the U.S. counterpart of...
View ArticleEngineers shrink microscope to dime-sized device
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created an atomic force microscope on a chip, dramatically shrinking the size—and, hopefully, the price tag—of a high-tech device commonly used to...
View ArticleProtecting web users' privacy
Most website visits these days entail a database query—to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses.
View ArticleCities are complex systems – let's start looking at them that way
The way we design our cities needs a serious rethink. After thousands of years of progress in urban development, we plateaued some 60 years ago. Cities are not safer, healthier, more efficient, or more...
View ArticleInspired by geckos, researchers engineer soft gripping system that...
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a soft gripping system that uses differential air pressure and a gecko-inspired adhesive for...
View ArticleOptimizing power networks for tomorrow's smart cities
The modern city, says Jie Liu, can be considered a web of networks that should run like a healthy, well-tuned circulatory system.
View ArticleResearchers find computer code that Volkswagen used to cheat emissions tests
An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanism that allowed Volkswagen to circumvent U.S. and European emission tests over at least six years before the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleHarvey began with raging winds, but its legacy will be water
Hurricane Harvey began with raging winds, but its legacy will be water. Seemingly endless, relentlessly insidious water—a staggering 40 inches or more that swamped parts of Houston in just five days.
View ArticleEngineers develop tools to share power from renewable energy sources during...
If you think you can use the solar panels on your roof to power your home during an outage, think again. During an outage, while your home remains connected to the grid, the devices that manage your...
View ArticleStudy takes a unique approach to new generation of smart drug delivery carriers
Imagine a tiny capsule, smaller than the tip of a needle, that could be programmed to release medicine at a specific location in your body and is inexpensive, easy to make, and more effective than the...
View ArticleBeing Bing: Microsoft's overlooked AI tool
Microsoft's Bing search engine has long been a punch line in the tech industry, an also-ran that never came close to challenging Google's dominant position.
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