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Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Friday, November 21, 2025

Rice engineers show lab grown diamond films can stop costly mineral buildup in pipes

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Pulickel Ajayan and Xiang Zhang Photo Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University In industrial pipes, mineral deposits build up the way limescale c...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Innovation turns building vents into carbon-capture devices

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A carbon nanofiber-based direct air capture filter developed by the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering could tur...
Monday, November 17, 2025

SwRI turbocharges its hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine

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SwRI has a multidisciplinary team dedicated to Hydrogen Energy Research initiatives to deploy decarbonization technologies across a broad sp...

Engineering: In-Depth Description

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Photo Credit:  ThisisEngineering Engineering is the application of scientific principles, mathematical knowledge, economic considerations, a...

TU Dresden Develops Laser Drill to Explore Icy Moons

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Researchers from TU Dresden during field tests of the laser ice drill on a glacier in Austria Photo Credit: Technische Universitat Dresden R...
Monday, November 10, 2025

The Two Sides of Flood Protection

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Flood waters in Rosenheim, Deutschland Photo Credit:  Julian Schneiderath Climate change is leading to stronger flood disasters. TU Wien and...

How plastics grip metals at the atomic scale

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Hierarchical view of polymer–alumina direct bonding across multiple length scales. Image Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University What makes so...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Prime time for fiber optics to take a deep dive into brain circuits

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Fiber-optic technology is being refined for brain research. WashU engineers have developed a way to vastly expand the utility of a single fi...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

New observation method improves outlook for lithium metal battery

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Stacey Bent (left), professor of chemical engineering and of energy science and engineering, Sanzeeda Baig Shuchi (right), chemical engineer...
Friday, October 17, 2025

How origami robots with magnetic muscles could make medicine delivery less invasive and more effective

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A crawling robot created with the Miura-Ori origami pattern. The dark areas are covered in a thin magnetic rubber film which allows the robo...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Metamaterials can stifle vibrations with intentional complexity

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This 3-D printed “kagome tube” can passively isolate vibrations using its complex, but deliberate, structure. Image Credit: James McInerney,...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Microwaves for energy-efficient chemical reactions

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Microwave reactions. Ideally the microwave reactions can be driven by green energy, in which case the system could help reduce carbon dioxid...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Space-based nuclear detonation detection mission endures

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Visual safety observers Debra Yzquierdo, left, and Naomi Baros watch the skies for aircraft atop an observation platform. Photo Credit: Crai...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Sandia team creates X-ray images of the future

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Courtney Sovinec examines the multi-patterned target used to create a new type of X-ray image at Sandia National Laboratories. Photo Credit:...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Research yields eco-friendly way to separate, recycle refrigerants tied to climate crisis

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Lead author Abby Harders, who earned her doctorate in chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas, now serves as head of ...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Collection of tiny antennas can amplify and control light polarized in any direction

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New polarization-independent, highly resonant metasurfaces can precisely amplify and control light without requiring incoming light (top lef...

Engineers Design New Autonomous System to Monitor Arctic Ice Melt

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Photo Credit:  Bernd Hildebrandt The rapid melting and thinning of the Arctic ice have sparked serious concerns in the scientific community....
Monday, January 27, 2025

FAU Engineering Develops New Weapon against Harmful Algal Blooms

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Photo Credit:  Tom Fisk As harmful algal blooms (HABs) continue to spread across the globe, urgent research is needed to address this growin...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

One Step Coating Could Save Lives and Property

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Image Credit: Rachel Barton/Texas A&M Engineering Communications Although extremely flammable, cotton is one of the most commonly used t...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Researchers find dialysis ‘astonishingly effective’ for treating wastewater

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Menachem Elimelech and Yuanmiaoliang “Selina” Chen. Photo Credit: Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University Researchers at Rice University, in collab...