Category: Engineering

Turns out, coffee stains and cutting-edge medical tests have quite a lot in common.

A new at-home diagnostic technology developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley uses the same physics behind coffee rings to…

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a groundbreaking method for rapidly detecting and measuring radioactivity in minuscule samples.

The technique, called cryogenic decay energy spectrometry…

Amid mounting plastic waste, a US engineer has developed a single-step method to grow strong, biodegradable sheets using bacteria.

Maksud Rahman, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Houston, led…

 Some love stories are written in the stars, quite literally.

A new Caltech-led study has found that some explosive star duos may have formed thanks to a third, more distant star.

These dramatic systems often involve a white dwarf, the…

NVIDIA has unveiled a powerful new parallelism technique that could radically improve how AI models operate on massive contexts. Dubbed Helix Parallelism, this innovation allows AI agents to process millions of words simultaneously, like…

Forget mines, the next lithium rush might come from the ocean.

In a major breakthrough, researchers at U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have developed an advanced membrane…

Dutch solar innovator Wattlab and German inland shipping giant HGK Shipping have teamed up to launch the world’s first hybrid solar-powered inland vessel as part of an ambitious initiative to decarbonize inland waterway transport.

Named the…

A new study explores the potential of caterpillars to degrade polyethylene plastic, the most common type of plastic globally. 

A team at Brandon University in Canada, headed by Dr. Bryan Cassone, researched waxworms, the caterpillars of the…