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Released: 27-May-2015 9:05 AM EDT
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26-May-2015 4:35 PM EDT
Unlocking innovation with Blackmon’s Rules
University of Alabama Huntsville

Ask mechanical and aerospace engineering students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and you’ll find plenty who can quote from at least part of something known as Blackmon’s Rules, a list of best practices for encouraging innovation.

Released: 26-May-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 26 May 2015
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Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: genetics and cancer, diabetes and blindness, nanotech, engineering, personalized medicine, energy, and e-cigarettes.

       
22-May-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Engineering Phase Changes in Nanoparticle Arrays
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have just taken a big step toward the goal of engineering dynamic nanomaterials whose structure and associated properties can be switched on demand. In a paper appearing in Nature Materials, they describe a way to selectively rearrange the nanoparticles in three-dimensional arrays to produce different configurations, or phases, from the same nano-components.

Released: 22-May-2015 8:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 22 May 2015
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Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: swelling magnets; using genetics to fight dengue fever; cybersecurity; Hubble finds 'Nasty' star; ventilation and patient survival; food security; gamification in business; and cancer research on implants to improve glioma treatment.

       
Released: 21-May-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Turn That Defect Upside Down
Michigan Technological University

Most people see defects as flaws. A few Michigan Technological University researchers, however, see them as opportunities. Twin boundary defects may present an opportunity to improve lithium-ion batteries.

Released: 20-May-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Bat-Inspired Dynamic Sonar Unveiled at Acoustical Society
Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech researchers have developed a prototype of a dynamic sonar system inspired by horseshoe bats. The prototype was presented Wednesday (May 20) at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh.

Released: 19-May-2015 12:05 PM EDT
A Virtual Twin: Can Virtual Drivers Resembling the User Increase Trust in Smart Cars?
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Can the use of a virtual drivers programmed to resemble humans increase the level of trust and acceptance in smart cars?

14-May-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Tunable Liquid Metal Antennas
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Researchers have held tremendous interest in liquid metal electronics for many years, but a significant and unfortunate drawback slowing the advance of such devices is that they tend to require external pumps that can't be easily integrated into electronic systems. So a team of North Carolina State University researchers set out to create a reconfigurable liquid metal antenna controlled by voltage only, which they describe this week in the Journal of Applied Physics.

15-May-2015 11:00 AM EDT
Computing at the Speed of Light
University of Utah

Utah engineers have developed an ultracompact beamsplitter — the smallest on record — for dividing light waves into two separate channels of information. The device brings researchers closer to producing silicon photonic chips that compute and shuttle data with light instead of electrons.

Released: 15-May-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 15 May 2015
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Released: 12-May-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Tests with Sandia's Davis Gun Aid B61-12 Life Extension Effort
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories has successfully completed a three-test series using its cannon-like Davis gun.

Released: 12-May-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Geological Engineering Expert Available to Discuss Nepal Earthquakes
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Dr. J. David Rogers, the Karl F. Hasselmann Chair of Geological Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, is available to speak to journalists about the Nepal earthquakes.

Released: 12-May-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 12 May 2015
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Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: tick-borne disease, 3D printing, childhood cancer and obesity, nursing, low-back pain, brain cells, and fluid dynamics.

       
Released: 11-May-2015 3:50 PM EDT
Bioprinting in 3D
Michigan Technological University

Researchers at Michigan Technological University are working on 3D bioprinting synthetic tissue that could help regenerate nerve cells in patients with spinal cord injuries.

   
Released: 7-May-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Civil Engineering Professor’s Research Proves Timely for Concerned Community
University of Kentucky

What happens when a community is faced with the disturbing possibility that their children could be exposed to harmful chemicals every day? They call in experts like Kelly Pennell, UK professor of civil engineering, whose research can shed light on a common, but potentially dangerous issue.

Released: 7-May-2015 8:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 7 May 2015
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Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: WWII and PTSD, stem cells, cancer, racial segregation, supplements and glaucoma, medical research, cybersecurity, vision research, and physics.

       
Released: 6-May-2015 9:00 AM EDT
Research on Fusion Engine That CouldBe a Mars Hot Rod Is AIAA Best Paper
University of Alabama Huntsville

You could call a fusion engine a space travel hot rod. A 2014 paper that reports on developments in pulsed fusion propulsion that could rapidly propel U.S. manned flights to Mars has been named an AIAA Best Paper.

30-Apr-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Artificial Muscles Created from Gold-Plated Onion Cells
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

The onion, a humble root vegetable, is proving its strength outside the culinary world -- in an artificial muscle created from onion cells. Unlike previous artificial muscles, this one, created by researchers from National Taiwan University, can either expand or contract to bend in different directions depending on the driving voltage applied. The finding is published this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

Released: 30-Apr-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Engineering a Better Solar Cell: UW Research Pinpoints Defects in Popular Perovskites
University of Washington

A new study published online April 30 in the journal Science by University of Washington and University of Oxford researchers demonstrates that perovskite materials - superefficient crystal structures that have recently taken the scientific community by storm - contain flaws that can be engineered to improve solar cells and other devices even further.

Released: 29-Apr-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 29 April 2015
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29-Apr-2015 10:45 AM EDT
Touch Sensors on Bat Wings Guide Flight
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Bats must rapidly integrate different types of sensory information to catch insects and avoid obstacles while flying. A study shows, for the first time, that a unique array of sensory receptors in the wing provides feedback to a bat during flight. The findings also suggest that neurons in the bat brain respond to incoming airflow and touch signals, triggering rapid adjustments in wing position to optimize flight control.

Released: 28-Apr-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 28 April 2015
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Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: Underage drinking, dieting, electrical engineering, neurology and genetics, Nepal earthquake, breast cancer, and supercomputing.

       
Released: 28-Apr-2015 9:00 AM EDT
Ultrafast Camera Captures Images at the Speed of Light
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

An NIBIB grantee has developed an ultrafast camera that can acquire two-dimensional images at 100 billion frames per second, a speed capable of revealing light pulses and other phenomena previously too fast to be observed.

Released: 27-Apr-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Digital in-Line Holography Helps Researchers 'See' Into Fiery Fuels
Sandia National Laboratories

Transportation accidents, such as trucks crashing on a highway or rockets failing on a launch pad, can create catastrophic fires. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have developed 3-D measurement techniques based on digital in-line holography because it’s important to understand how burning droplets of fuel are generated and behave in such extreme cases.

24-Apr-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Comes Clean
Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Columbia Engineering Professor James Hone led a team in 2013 that dramatically improved the performance of graphene by encapsulating it in boron nitride. They’ve now shown they can similarly improve the performance of another 2D material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2. Their findings provide a demonstration of how to study all 2D materials and hold great promise for a broad range of applications including high-performance electronics, detection and emission of light, and chemical/bio-sensing. Nature Nanotechnology , week of April 27, 2015

Released: 24-Apr-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 24 April 2015
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Released: 23-Apr-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Tiny Lab Devices Could Attack Huge Problem of Drug-Resistant Infections
 Johns Hopkins University

A Johns Hopkins engineer, supported by a major NIH grant, is leading a multi-institution team that wants to keep bacterial infections from dodging the dwindling arsenal of drugs that destroy the deadly microbes.

21-Apr-2015 12:00 PM EDT
X-Ray Study May Aid in Designing Better Blood Pressure Drugs
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

An experiment at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has revealed in atomic detail how a hypertension drug binds to a cellular receptor that plays a key role in regulating blood pressure. The results could help scientists design new drugs that better control blood pressure while limiting side effects.

Released: 22-Apr-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Drexel Materials Scientists Putting a New Spin on Computing Memory
Drexel University

As computers continue to shrink—moving from desks and laps to hands and wrists—memory has to become smaller, stable and more energy conscious. A group of researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering is trying to do just that with help from a new class of materials, whose magnetism can essentially be controlled by the flick of a switch.

Released: 22-Apr-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Backache – a Matter of Mechanics
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Thanks to a collaboration with the Balgrist University Hospital and University of Pittsburgh, Empa is beginning to decode the mechanics of the lower vertebrae. Researchers would like be able to reveal how wear and tear comes about on vertebral bodies and spinal disks. This would also make choosing the appropriate therapy much easier.

Released: 22-Apr-2015 9:00 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 22 April 2015
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Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: diet supplements and cancer, pancreatic cancer, bird flu, parenting, respiratory health, physics from the DOE office of science, breast cancer awareness, and childhood cancer survivors.

       
Released: 21-Apr-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Engineered Softwood Could Transform Pulp, Paper and Biofuel Industries
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Scientists today demonstrated the potential for softwoods to process more easily into pulp and paper if engineered to incorporate a key feature of hardwoods. The finding, published in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could improve the economics of the pulp, paper and biofuels industries and reduce those industries’ environmental impact.

Released: 17-Apr-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Beyond the Lithium Ion – a Significant Step Toward a Better Performing Battery
University of Illinois Chicago

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have taken a significant step toward the development of a battery that could outperform the lithium-ion technology used in electric cars such as the Chevy Volt.

Released: 17-Apr-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 17 April 2015
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Released: 16-Apr-2015 5:05 PM EDT
Engineer Improves Rechargeable Batteries with MoS2 Nano 'Sandwich'
Kansas State University

The key to better cell phones and other rechargeable electronics may be in tiny "sandwiches" made of nanosheets, according to mechanical engineering research from Kansas State University.

Released: 16-Apr-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for the Environment
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

By combining biocompatible light-capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, a potentially game-changing new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win/win situation for the environment: solar-powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.

13-Apr-2015 3:00 PM EDT
A Camera That Powers Itself!
Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

A team led by Shree K. Nayar, Computer Science Professor 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 work will be presented at the International Conference on Computational Photography in Houston, 4/24-26

Released: 9-Apr-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 9 April 2015
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Released: 8-Apr-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 8 April 2015
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3-Apr-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Future Electronics Based on Carbon Nanotubes
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A big barrier to building useful electronics with carbon nanotubes has always been the fact that when they're arrayed into films, a certain portion of them will act more like metals than semiconductors. But now a team of researchers have shown how to strip out the metallic carbon nanotubes from arrays using a relatively simple, scalable procedure that does not require expensive equipment. Their work is described this week in the Journal of Applied Physics.

Released: 7-Apr-2015 9:00 AM EDT
Cerebral Curiosity
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Steven Keating's curiosity led to the detection of a baseball-sized brain tumor and sparked an interest into the potential of open health data to help himself and others.

Released: 6-Apr-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 6 April 2015
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Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: neurology, concussions, STEM jobs, Medical licensing, gun safety and youth, research ethics, and sleep apnea and blood pressure.

       
Released: 2-Apr-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Sounds from Helmets Colliding Explored as Alternative to Understanding Football Collisions
University of Alabama

When football helmets collide, they produce an unmistakable sound. College student Brandon McChristian hopes his research of those sound waves produces a better understanding of the forces involved in those collisions and, perhaps one day, inexpensive sensing methods for a safer game.

Released: 2-Apr-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Connecting Vehicles
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Computational framework for optimizing traffic flow could be the beginning of a road revolution.

Released: 2-Apr-2015 9:00 AM EDT
New Biosensing Platform Could Quickly and Accurately Diagnose Disease and Monitor Treatment Remotely
Florida Atlantic University

In much the same way that glucometers and pregnancy tests have revolutionized in-home diagnostic testing, researchers have identified a new biosensing platform that could be used to remotely detect and determine treatment options for HIV, E-coli, Staphylococcus aureas and other bacteria. Using this technology, they also have developed a phone app that could detect bacteria and disease in the blood using images from a cellphone that could easily be analyzed from anywhere in the world.

Released: 30-Mar-2015 4:05 PM EDT
UW Engineer Models Groundwater to Help Farmers at Home and Abroad
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Argentina might seem a long way to go for an environmental engineer seeking to better understand land use in Wisconsin. But there are some surprising parallels between the two countries' histories of land use and ecohydrology that could help farmers and officials make better groundwater decisions.

Released: 30-Mar-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Stormy Weather Ahead for Wind Farms?
Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech and Austral de Chile researchers will study the vibrations of wind turbines at a large Chilean wind farm along with health impacts on nearby residents. The goal is to make wind turbines more acceptable.



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