. Scientific Frontline: Engineering
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Creating a wireless tissue-aware medical device network in the human body

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Swallowable medical devices work together to send signals during endoscopy The swallowed transmitter and relay stations cooperate to improve...

Researchers develop method to make renewable natural gas directly from waste

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As part of the project, the team used a novel bacterial strain to upgrade the biogas in a reactor, converting carbon dioxide with hydrogen i...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Mining waste product could help store carbon emissions

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Pouring smelter slag onto the dump Photo Credit:  Javier Rubilar ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Sum...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

UC Irvine-led study achieves brain-controlled walking with artificial sensory feedback

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UC Irvine researchers (from left) Dr. An Do, associate professor of neurology; Payam Heydari, professor of electrical engineering and comput...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Multitasking quantum sensors can measure several properties at once

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MIT researchers have created a quantum sensor that can measure multiple physical quantities at high-resolution. The sensor is made from so-c...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Researchers use efficient method to split hydrogen from water for energy

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A team of researchers led by Gang Wu created a new energy-efficient catalyst using two phosphides to split hydrogen from water. The image on...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Soaking Up the Sun to Provide Clean Water

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Photo Credit:  Liana S Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Solar-Powered Water Disinfection System Main Discovery : Rese...
Monday, April 6, 2026

Modeling mangroves' capacity to protect coastal communities

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Example of a mangrove forest Photo Credit: KyotoU / Nobuhito Mori Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Modeling ...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Electrons in moiré crystals explore higher-dimensional quantum worlds

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Visualization of 4D Electrons in a Moiré Crystal  When metals are placed in magnetic fields, their electrons orbit at speeds and in shapes r...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Watering smarter, not more

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Robot assisting with precision irrigation in an orchard. Photo Credit: Elia Scudiero / University of California, Riverside Scientific Frontl...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Bio-based polymer offers a sustainable solution to ‘forever chemical’ cleanup

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The bio-based membrane is made up of a network of billions of nanofibers, each one hundreds of times thinner than a human hair Image Credit:...
Monday, March 23, 2026

International Team of Scientists Developed an Ecological Dryer for "Northern" Summer

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Experiments have shown that the dehumidifier accumulates heat in just 140 minutes of a sunny day, and then gives it away for almost 24 hours...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Researchers Demonstrate How Magnets Influence Behavior of Metamaterials

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Photo Credit: Haoze Sun Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Magnetized Metamaterial Behavior The Core Concept :...

DARPA-developed autonomous helicopter technology transitions to U.S. Army

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U.S. Army’s experimental H‑60Mx Black Hawk helicopter uses Sikorsky’s MATRIX autonomy suite, which forms the core of the DARPA ALIAS program...

Lead-free thin films turn everyday vibrations into electricity

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Fabricating lead-free piezoelectric films on silicon   Using a sputtering technique widely employed in semiconductor manufacturing, research...

New X-ray vision for electronics lets scientists monitor working chips remotely

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Image Credit: Adelaide University / AI generated (Gemini) Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Non-contact Probing of Act...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

White-Rot Fungi Show Promise for Reducing Pharmaceutical Residues in Biosolids

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Turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor) Photo Credit:  Johan Doe Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Mycoaug...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Quantum-inspired laser system delivers distance measurements with sub-millimeter accuracy

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An aerial photograph taken from Brandon Hill with coloured arrows highlighting range finding demonstrations from Queens Building to Wills Me...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Extracting More Information from Exhaled Breath

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The EBClite smart mask can analyze the chemicals in one's breath in real time. Photo Credit: Caltech/Wei Gao and Wenzheng Heng Scientifi...

New sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath

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MIT MechE Postdoctoral Associate Aditya Garg (left) and MechE Doctoral student Seleem Badawy stand behind the Raman microscope used to evalu...