Ruth Seeley

The technology required to make autonomous cars a commonplace reality is here. But they aren’t economically viable yet. The biggest obstacle to making them cheap enough for everyday adoption is the cost of LiDAR, the technology that enables…

Over the next decade, streaming data, the Internet of Things, video, artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) are driving our need for data storage into the exabyte range. As demand for data storage and processing have grown…

While research continues into the singular properties of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, it’s uncertain how long the virus can live on various surfaces (cardboard, plastic, metal). While this may not be its primary form of…

Today's computers rely on ferromagnets (the same kind that stick to your refrigerator) to align the binary 1s and 0s that process and store information. Anti-ferromagnets are much more powerful, but their natural state, displaying no net…

Even pre-engineered robotic cells are expensive. The ArcWorld 1200 welding cell costs approximately $150,000 USD, about the same as a custom cell, but with the advantage of being plug and play. Recently though, engineers at the University…

One of the most exciting premises of nanotechnology has always been the potential for its use as a drug-delivery system. We have known for years that massive doses of radiation and chemotherapy kill not just tumor cells, but devastate…

It’s possible that when an internal biological clock is aligned with the external environment, it can actually protect organisms from viruses and ensure processes like DNA uptake occur when they should. Research on circadian rhythms, our…

By observing electrons that have been accelerated to extremely high energies, scientists are able to unlock clues about the particles that make up our universe. Accelerating electrons to extremely high energies is problematic though, since…

By 2016, 50% of our seafood was the product of aquaculture. With a sea cage holding up to 200,000 farmed salmon, aquaculture is big business. If the cage sustains damage, such as a hole in the nets, the fish could swim out through the…

The decline of standard battery performance at low temperatures and the environmental impact of mining the metals to create them is driving the search for sustainable energy storage. Recently, researchers at Uppsala University have…

Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given researchers clues about how they might find life on Mars. These bacteria were discovered living in tiny cracks inside volcanic rocks after researchers…

Small magnetic fields from the electricity that lights our homes and powers our appliances are present all around us. Now, Penn State scientists have developed a new mechanism capable of harvesting this wasted magnetic field energy and…

Using video recorded on an ordinary smartphone, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created an accurate, realistic, and uncreepy 3D reconstruction of someone's face. Using a smartphone to shoot a continuous video of the front and…

Rice University engineers have been studying how electrons act when confronted with the Russian doll-like structure of multiwalled tubes. The Rice lab of materials theorist Boris Yakobson has now calculated the impact of curvature of…

Until now, it has been only technically possible to implement encryption mechanisms with entangled photons in the near-infrared range of 700 to 1550 nanometers. However, these shorter wavelengths have disadvantages, especially in…