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Electric vehicles batteries that need to be retired because they can no longer provide reliable acceleration and range could still have a useful and profitable second life as backup storage for grid-scale solar photovoltaic installations. A…

Unconventional superconductors were first reported in 1979. Since then, physicists have been working to develop a theory for these classes of materials that don’t seem to follow conventional electron-ion interactions at the heart of…

While three-dimensional chess was first developed in the late 19th Century, it was popularized on the original Star Trek TV show in the 1960s. The game has been used as a metaphor for sophisticated thinking. Now, researchers at Osaka…

While humans have been wondering whether we are alone in the universe since antiquity, our fascination with extraterrestrial life forms has accelerated dramatically as we explore space. Whether it’s My Favorite Martian, Star Trek and its…

The emerging field of soft robotics is focused on creating robots capable of close machine-human interactions, which means allowing robots to adapt to their surroundings and to mimic the motion, function, and adaptability of biological…

With increased demands on our internet infrastructure with schools closed and the majority of the world working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, our need for continued energy efficiency and bandwidth continues to grow. Light,…

Whether we ever get to the point that we’re using 100% renewable energy or not depends on a variety of factors, one of which is affordable energy storage to counteract fluctuations in wind and solar. Recently though, researchers at the…

In addition to the language, field of vision, and other deficits caused by stroke, 8 out of 10 stroke survivors suffer from "hemiparesis,” a paralysis that typically impacts the limbs and facial muscles on one side of their bodies. It often…

By far the largest graduate engineering discipline is computer, electrical and electronic engineering, and in 2014, 71% of those enrolled were temporary residents. By 2018 though, full-time foreign nationals doing graduate degrees had…

Commercial microscopes intended for lab use can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. Recently though, University of Bath researchers have created a 3D printable precision microscope to analyze samples and detect diseases. The design is…

As robotics engineering research speeds up to meet demand for robotic solutions, researchers look more and to the natural world for inspiration when designing robots with the qualities required to perform specific tasks more quickly,…

With existing and potential applications in various forms of sustainable energy from wind turbines to electric motors to smart grids as well, of course, as quantum computing,  high-temperature superconductors have the potential to…

As we plan to use robots to replace humans working in dangerous operating conditions like mining, with slippery surfaces, uneven terrain, and vertical surfaces that need to be traversed, researchers have concluded climbing robots could…

GaN is changing the way we power things, and that’s becoming increasingly evident whether you look at consumer, automotive, 5G, or industrial power applications. Take 5G — It’s high bandwidth and low latency. From the consumer…

Dark matter, first proposed by Lord Kelvin in 1884 and named by Henri Poincaré in 1906, is undetectable by current astronomical instruments. Because of its huge gravitational footprint in space, we know dark matter must make up about 85% of…