Category: Engineering

Led by Professor Duan Feng of Nankai University, Chinese researchers have carried out what they call the world’s first human trial of a brain-computer interface implanted through blood vessels, enabling a paralyzed patient to move his…

The city of Dublin in Ohio has a new autonomous safety robot on the streets for protecting citizens and property.

The city invited residents to choose the name of the safety robot made by Knightscope. The three options given to the residents…

Virtual assistants are known to boost performance, reduce mental workload, and improve situational awareness during complex tasks, but few studies have explored how they can help astronauts quickly and safely resolve problems during…

A New Haven ceramic artist and Yale University material scientist have teamed up to turn eggshells into a sustainable ingredient for ceramic glaze. The waste egg glaze, they found, is just as good as traditional glaze made from mined calcium…

U.S. and Iranian officials have now confirmed that Iran’s nuclear infrastructure has been severely damaged following recent Israeli and U.S. airstrikes. The damage is so extensive that US intelligence agencies assert that Iran’s nuclear…

Scientists are using GenAI models to improve robotic designs and their motions. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) applied generative AI to create working robots. Recent diffusion-based approaches have…

Squids are magnificent creatures which rule the oceans and are known for their camouflage, and also recently it has been found that their remarkable color shifting ability could play a role in generating electricity.

While today squids and…

What if a material just a single atom thick could unlock the secrets of superconductivity, and open the door to powerful quantum devices? That’s the promise of a curious phenomenon discovered in specially arranged layers of graphene.

When…

Picture a sedan that glows like a spaceship. A pickup that morphs into an SUV. A pint-sized city car, decked out in cartoon graphics, with Lego studs on the dash.

Once outlandish, these designs are now rolling off production lines —…

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new AI tool that detects nine types of dementia using one common brain scan. The system, called StateViewer, includes Alzheimer’s disease in its scope and promises faster, more accurate…