The self-driving Roboat, with refined perception, navigation, and control systems, prepares to set sail in Amsterdam. Credit: Photo courtesy of MIT CSAIL If you don’t…
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Through the Eyes of Underwater Creatures: Wearable, Whole-Body Sensing Networks
Horseshoe Crab Michael Bartlett will engineer wearable, whole-body sensing networks with a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. The horseshoe crab is…
View More Through the Eyes of Underwater Creatures: Wearable, Whole-Body Sensing NetworksMIT Engineers’ Major Advance in Creating a New Family of Semiconductor Materials
Artist’s conception of the epitaxial growth of a chalcogenide perovskite thin film. The material represents a new family of semiconductors. Credit: Felice Frankel Ultrastable and…
View More MIT Engineers’ Major Advance in Creating a New Family of Semiconductor MaterialsThis Curious Device Could Usher In GPS-Free Navigation
Sandia scientist Peter Schwindt, left, and postdoctoral scientist Bethany Little examine the vacuum package held in a yellow, 3D-printed mount. Credit: Sandia National Laboratory Sandia…
View More This Curious Device Could Usher In GPS-Free NavigationCompact Fusion Power Plant Concept Uses State-of-the-Art Physics To Improve Energy Production
The Compact Advanced Tokamak (CAT) is a potentially economical solution for fusion energy production that takes advantage of advances in simulation and technology. Credit: Image…
View More Compact Fusion Power Plant Concept Uses State-of-the-Art Physics To Improve Energy ProductionNew Machine-Learning System Gives Robots Social Skills
A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions. Robots can deliver food on a college campus and hit a hole-in-one on…
View More New Machine-Learning System Gives Robots Social SkillsStanford Phase-Change Memory Could Pave the Way to Ultrafast, Energy-Efficient Computing
Scientists have spent decades searching for faster, more energy-efficient memory technologies for everything from large data centers to mobile sensors and other flexible electronics.…
View More Stanford Phase-Change Memory Could Pave the Way to Ultrafast, Energy-Efficient ComputingTidal Stream Power Can Generate 11% of UK’s Electricity Demand and Aid Drive for Net-Zero
SIMEC Atlantis Energy’s AR1500 turbine being installed at MeyGen, North Scotland. Credit: SIMEC Atlantis Energy Tidal stream power has the potential to deliver 11% of…
View More Tidal Stream Power Can Generate 11% of UK’s Electricity Demand and Aid Drive for Net-ZeroSecuring Data Transfers With Relativity: Information Cannot Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light
A team from UNIGE has implemented a new way to secure data transfers based on the physical principle of relativity. The volume of data transferred…
View More Securing Data Transfers With Relativity: Information Cannot Travel Faster Than the Speed of LightAutonomous Robotic Rover Provides New Insight Into Life on the Deep Abyssal Seafloor
MBARI’s Benthic Rover II travels across the muddy seafloor, taking photographs and measuring how much oxygen bottom-dwelling animals and microbes are using over time. The…
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