As 3-D printing increasingly makes its way into homes, libraries, and schools, risk researchers are questioning the health and safety implications they may pose, especially to children. The concern is that the particles released during the…

Fuel storage and transport is a major limiting factor in space travel, relegating travel to short trips when large amounts of cargo are to be moved. Early fuel bladder designs included round balloons for liquid hydrogen, which gave way to…

Professor Federico Rosei of the Institut National de la Recherché Scientifique (INRS) collaborated with international researchers to modify graphene properties for use in electronics applications. The study results were recently published…

A Cornell University-led team of international scientists detected radio bursts from the constellation Boötes, possibly the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D.…

What exactly goes on in the minds of machines that learn to see? Duke University’s computer science professor, Cynthia Rudin, set out to define exactly what happens in between input and output in deep learning models. The complexity…

Steve Wozniak is out of retirement and launching his second company, Efforce. The mission is to transform and disrupt energy efficiency. Efforce enables companies to undertake energy efficiency measures at no cost, freeing up liquidity for…

COVID-19 is prompting creativity in combatting the disease and also in protecting the masses, especially in areas that see substantial traffic. EMist, a provider of electrostatic sprayer solutions, already had a sprayer on the market before…

Wireless charging is common in consumer and medical electronics applications. Now, scientists have created a control strategy that dynamically changes transmitter currents for wireless charging in robots and electric cars. In a recently…

Researchers at MIT led by Michael Foshey have solved the challenges of dealing with varying varnish viscosities in 3D printing. To date, 3D hardware has mastered shape and color, but has been slow to deal with the visual feature of "gloss."…

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are coaxing oxygen and hydrogen directly out of briny water. The team invented an electrolyzer that can be useful on Earth to tap into oceans as viable…

MIT just developed a system that optimizes a robot’s shape based on an application’s intended terrain. The system simulates different shapes to establish which design is best for what the robot must do and where they will do it. Dubbed…

Opteran just raised seed funding in the amount of £2.1 million to launch a radical lightweight, low-cost silicon-based approach to autonomy called Natural Intelligence. The company had its roots in eight years of insect-brain research…

While work is still getting done during the pandemic, remote access to our offices is greatly increasing the chances of data breaches, which are expensive to fix and hard to find. According to Robert Selvaraj, Co-founder and CEO of…

Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have checked the results of their research and conclude it is correct. The team’s finding challenges how some of the Earth’s heavy elements are made—specifically ruthenium and molybdenum.…

"The IEEE 2020 Global Survey of CIOs and CTOs" surveyed 350 CIOs or CTOs on business opportunities, challenges, and key trends. The survey spanned the U.S., China, U.K., India, and Brazil, and was conducted from September 21 to October 9,…