Engineering
Growing up in a household of artists and engineers, Peter Thelin was destined for a career in which artistry mattered. Only for him, art has come in the form of manipulating the shapes, sizes and qualities of optics. And now, as one of the few remaining practitioners of hand-polishing optics, Thelin is passing his artistry along to the next generation of optics specialists.
What if handheld tools know what needs to be done and were even able to guide and help inexperienced users to complete jobs that require skill? Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed and started studying a novel concept in robotics - intelligent handheld robots.
Scientists at the University of Manchester have made an important discovery about how certain cells stick to each other to form tissue.
New composite has potential applications in boat flooring, automobile parts, and buoyancy modules as well as vehicle armor
Micro-engineered battery architectures, combined with high energy material such as tin, offer exciting new battery features
University of Texas at El Paso researchers' work challenges the theory that feeder cells provide nutrients to growing stem cells.
4-D printing is unfolding as technology that takes 3-D printing to an entirely new level
Anti-GMO messages strongly appeal to particular intuitions and emotions
A research team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has invented a prototype video camera that is the first to be fully self-powered—it can produce an image each second, indefinitely, of a well-lit indoor scene. They designed a pixel that can not only measure incident light but also convert the incident light into electric power. The team is presenting its work at the International Conference on Computational Photography at Rice University in Houston, April 24 to 26.
Work could lead to better medical sprays that are more effective and deliver more types of drugs.
