. Scientific Frontline: Engineering
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Atom-thin material could help solve chip manufacturing problem

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Atomically thin material with extraordinary plasma resistance allows for high-aspect ratio nanofabrication Image Credit: Scientific Frontlin...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Nanoparticle-infused saline could help people facing kidney stone surgery

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By adding dark nanoparticles to a common saline solution used in kidney stone laser surgeries, researchers at the University of Chicago Prit...

Tiny thermometers offer on-chip temperature monitoring for processors

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A team including Anirban Chowdhury, left, and Dipanjan Sen, right, developed an incredibly tiny thermometer that can be integrated directly ...
Friday, March 6, 2026

These robots are born to run — and never die

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Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Legged Metamachines Main Discovery : Northwestern University researchers developed ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Hawk Study Shows Potential Lessons of Bird Flight

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Graduate students Huanglun Zhu and Kiran Weston set up a 3D printed model of a hawk wing for testing in the UC Davis wind tunnel. Based on m...

Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria

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Nitrous oxide (orange and green molecules) produced at the plant root may harm certain soil bacteria, according to a new study — revealing a...
Monday, March 2, 2026

SwRI develops magnetostrictive probe for safer, more cost-effective storage tank inspections

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a magnetostrictive (MST) probe that uses guided wave technology to detect corrosion in stora...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Just the Right Amount: Microbial Nutrients Drive Success and Failure of Antibiotics

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Micrographs show an E. coli population (green) encountering an antibiotic, fosfomycin (initial concentration 2.05 mg/mL, equivalent to 250× ...

Twisting optical fiber creates a robust new pathway for light

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Emerging from the 2000 degree C furnace, a fibre 'stack' guides light even while it is being drawn.  Credit: Dr Nathan Roberts Scien...
Monday, February 16, 2026

New tool could reduce collision risk for Earth-observation satellites

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary The Core Concept : A computational modelin...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Particle-in-cell study of electron beam propagation through ionospheric plasma

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ADR system in action Theoretical use of an e-beam in the ionosphere to disperse debris. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Scientific Fro...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Cracking complex networks with partial data

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Given that more than 20 internal signals drive the behavior of a single neuron, measuring all of them is close to impossible. Jr-Shin Li’s l...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Engineers design structures that compute with heat

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This artistic rendering shows a thermal analog computing device, which performs computations using excess heat, embedded in a microelectroni...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based quantum computers

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Caption:Researchers developed a photonic chip that incorporates precisely designed antennas to manipulate beams of tightly focused, intersec...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

A Robot Learns to Lip Sync

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Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Columbia Engineering researchers developed a robot that autonomously ...

Self-Healing Composite Can Make Airplane, Automobile and Spacecraft Components Last for Centuries

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3D printed thermoplastic healing agent (blue overlay) on glass-fiber reinforcement (left); infrared thermograph during in situ self-healing ...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Cleaning Up the Final Frontier: Embry‑Riddle Researchers Develop Net Mechanism to Catch Space Debris

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Embry‑Riddle’s Dr. Morad Nazari, graduate student Sahasra Boyapati and Dr. Daewon Kim (from right to left) display prototype components of t...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Ultra-high-resolution Lidar Reveals Hidden Cloud Structures

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This experimental setup at Michigan Technological University allows researchers to create and study clouds under carefully controlled condit...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Membrane magic: Researchers repurpose fuel cells membranes for new applications

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Daniel Hallinan Jr. works with perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) polymers in his lab in the Aero-Propulsion Mechatronics & Energy building a...
Monday, December 1, 2025

New SwRI laboratory to study the origins of planetary systems

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a new space science laboratory, the Nebular Origins of the Universe Research (NOUR) Laborato...