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Released: 13-May-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Socializing Robots
Oregon State University, College of Engineering

Oregon State University roboticist Heather Knight programs her robots with artificial social intelligence to help them interpret and mimic human cues — like body language, gaze direction, movement patterns, and facial expressions — to make them more effective at collaborating with humans.

9-May-2019 9:25 AM EDT
Locating a Shooter from the First Shot via Cellphone
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Militaries have worked hard to develop technologies that simultaneously protect soldiers' hearing and aid in battlefield communication. However, these don’t help if a soldier takes it off to assess the location of incoming gunfire. A French researcher has developed a proof of concept that uses the microphones in a TCAPS system to capture a shooter’s acoustic information and transmit this to a soldier’s smartphone to display shooter location in real time. He will present his shooter location research at the 177th ASA Meeting, May 13-17.

Released: 13-May-2019 6:05 AM EDT
THz on Sale! Unprecedented price of $29,950!
Bakman Technologies

Bakman Technologies becomes the first in the world to sell a portable, turn-key Terahertz spectrometer for under $30,000!

Released: 10-May-2019 10:20 AM EDT
Hummingbird robot uses AI to soon go where drones can't
Purdue University

Your friendly neighborhood hummingbirds. If drones had this combo, they would be able to maneuver better through collapsed buildings and other cluttered spaces to find trapped victims.

Released: 9-May-2019 4:15 PM EDT
Q&A: SLAC/Stanford researchers prepare for a new quantum revolution
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The tech world is abuzz about quantum information science (QIS). This emerging technology explores bizarre quantum effects that occur on the smallest scales of matter and could potentially revolutionize the way we live.

Released: 9-May-2019 4:00 PM EDT
Superfacility Framework Advances Photosynthesis Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

For more than a decade, a team of international researchers led by Berkeley Lab bioscientists has been studying Photosystem II, a protein complex in green plants, algae, and cyanobacteria that plays a crucial role in photosynthesis. They’re now moving more quickly toward an understanding of this three-billion-year-old biological system, thanks to an integrated superfacility framework established between LCLS, ESnet, and NERSC.

Released: 9-May-2019 3:00 PM EDT
Assessing battery performance: Compared to what?
Argonne National Laboratory

A team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, University of Warwick, OVO Energy, Hawaii National Energy Institute, and Jaguar Land Rover reviewed the literature on the various methods used around the world to characterize the performance of lithium-ion batteries to provide insight on best practices. Their results may one day lead to more reliably comparable methods for testing lithium-ion batteries tailored to different applications.

Released: 9-May-2019 2:25 PM EDT
Automation in Government Jobs Will Affect Women, Minorities Disproportionately
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study finds that "occupational segregation" could result in women and minorities bearing the brunt of layoffs in state and local government as a result of automation.

   
Released: 9-May-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Study questions current regulations on light pollution and calls for paradigm shift
University of Granada

An international study involving researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), Spain, and the University of Krakow (Poland) has found that Spain's current regulations on light pollution are inadequate

Released: 9-May-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Veterinary students’ AR app sparks new level of learning
Cornell University

Cornell University veterinary students can now get a leg up in learning equine anatomy, thanks to a custom-designed app created at the college.

   
Released: 8-May-2019 4:50 PM EDT
Snapshot: New Video Highlights One of S&T’s Most Successful Technologies for Law Enforcement
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

The Electronic Recovery and Access to Data (ERAD) Prepaid Card Reader is currently being used by state and local law enforcement in 48 states, by federal law enforcement agencies, and by international law enforcement agencies.

Released: 8-May-2019 4:05 PM EDT
Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations appoints first advisory council
Argonne National Laboratory

World-class energy leaders will offer their expertise to Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, as part of a new Advisory Council announced today. CRI has named 14 Advisory Council members, including investors, industry experts and business executives, to help guide its growth and strategy.

Released: 8-May-2019 4:00 PM EDT
ORNL, Lincoln Electric to Advance Large-Scale Metal Additive Manufacturing Technology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The new agreement builds upon ORNL and Lincoln Electric’s previous developments by extending additive technology to new materials, leveraging data analytics and enabling rapid manufacture of metal components in excess of 100 pounds per hour.

   
Released: 8-May-2019 3:30 PM EDT
New Collaboration to Accelerate Clean Energy Research at Stony Brook
Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University and the Center for Sustainable Energy® (CSE) have signed a memorandum of understanding to support and accelerate the development of clean and sustainable energy research being conducted in the Research & Development Park at Stony Brook University.

Released: 8-May-2019 2:05 PM EDT
VisiBlends, a New Approach to Disrupt Visual Messaging
Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

To help non-professionals create visual blends for their news and PSAs, Columbia Engineering researchers have developed VisiBlends, a flexible, user-friendly platform that transforms the creative brainstorming activity into a search function, and enables a statistically higher output of visually blended images. The VisiBlends platform combines a series of human steps or “microtasks” with AI and computational techniques. Crowd-sourcing is a key component of the system enabling groups of people to collaborate, either together or off-site.

Released: 7-May-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Technology Better Than Tape Measure for Identifying Lymphedema Risk
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) is better than a tape measure for assessing a woman’s risk for developing lymphedema, painful swelling in the arm after breast cancer surgery.

30-Apr-2019 4:35 PM EDT
Can a Mobile Phone-Based Behavioral Intervention Affect Weight Regain?
PLOS

A scalable, mobile phone-based intervention designed to slow weight regain after an initial weight loss had no significant effect on participants’ weight, according to a study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Falko Sniehotta from Newcastle University, UK and colleagues.

Released: 6-May-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Program's student diversity strengthens its impact and reach
Penn State College of Engineering

Members of the Green Briq venture, a Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program venture, work with locals in Kisumu, Kenya, to create fuel briquettes from dried hyacinth, an invasive plant species found in the waters of East Africa.05/02/19By Courtney AllenUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Through its unique opportunities focused on social entrepreneurship and humanitarian technology development, the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program attracts a diverse group of Penn State students wanting to inspire change.

   
Released: 6-May-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Dataset bridges human vision and machine learning
Carnegie Institution for Science

Neuroscientists and computer vision scientists say a new dataset of unprecedented size comprising brain scans of four volunteers who each viewed 5,000 images

Released: 3-May-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Hoda Mehrpouyan Earns NSF CAREER Award
Boise State University

Hoda Mehrpouyan, an assistant professor in the computer science department and associate director of the Cyber Lab for Industrial Control Systems, was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to further her cybersecurity and network research.

2-May-2019 10:45 AM EDT
Making the Invisible Visible: New Method Opens Unexplored Realms for Liquid Biopsies
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

A new approach to RNA sequencing reveals thousands of previously inaccessible RNA fragments in blood plasma that might serve as disease- and organ-specific biomarkers

Released: 2-May-2019 4:05 PM EDT
Nine Small Businesses Awarded $10M to Advance Homeland Security Research Projects
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T has awarded $10 million across nine small businesses for ten Phase II contracts through the DHS Small Business Innovation Research program.

Released: 2-May-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Earth system scientists produce online forest remote sensing handbook
University of Alabama Huntsville

Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) have produced a new volume entitled “Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation.”

Released: 2-May-2019 10:05 AM EDT
High-speed experiments improve hypersonic flight predictions
Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When traveling at five times the speed of sound or faster, the tiniest bit of turbulence is more than a bump in the road, said the Sandia National Laboratories aerospace engineer who for the first time characterized the vibrational effect of the pressure field beneath one of these tiny hypersonic turbulent spots.

Released: 2-May-2019 8:00 AM EDT
Obstacles to Overcome Before Operating Fleets of Drones Becomes Reality
Iowa State University

The technology exists to replace a single remote controlled drone with an automated fleet, but an Iowa State researcher says there are several obstacles to tackle first. He is part of a team developing models to efficiently operate a fleet, while maintaining security.

Released: 1-May-2019 4:05 PM EDT
Machine ready to see if magic metal – lithium – can help bring the fusion that lights the stars to Earth
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Feature describes three-year upgrade of the unique Lithium Tokamak Experiment that brings conditions in the device closer to those in a fusion reactor.

Released: 1-May-2019 4:05 PM EDT
New technology helps patients who require frequent X-rays
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The EOS X-ray imaging system uses ultra-low radiation doses (up to 50 times lower depending on the scan type) to capture 2-D and 3-D images. The scan, complete in about eight to 15 seconds, obtains an image of the body in an upright, load-bearing position, which is more representative of the body’s natural function.

Released: 1-May-2019 4:05 PM EDT
AI Could Help Citrus Growers Find, Detect Dangerous Psyllids
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

Precision agriculture engineer Yiannis Ampatzidis sees a day when citrus farmers use artificial intelligence to detect the pin-sized insects that can infect the fruit’s trees with the deadly greening disease. That day could come in the near future, because Ampatzidis and his research team are starting to perfect a system to detect the potentially deadly Asian citrus psyllid.

Released: 1-May-2019 3:05 PM EDT
SDSC’s Sherlock Cloud Expands Hybrid Cloud Offerings
University of California San Diego

The Health Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Division of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, has partnered with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (Azure) to expand its portfolio of cloud services.

Released: 1-May-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Innovations for Fairer Markets in the Era of High Frequency and Algorithmic Trading
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Upwards of 70 percent of all trades executed on a daily basis on Wall Street are not executed by humans. In fact, they are not even executed based on a human decision. They are executed by computer algorithms, and occur at almost incomprehensible speed, frequency and scale.

Released: 1-May-2019 11:00 AM EDT
The ‘Little’ Computer Cluster That Could
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A computer cluster, which switched off April 1, had a storied history in serving high-energy physics and nuclear physics experiments.

Released: 1-May-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2019
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL story tips: Using ORNL’s Summit supercomputer, scientists created some of the largest virtual universes; plant-based, super-sticky material proves stickier than mussels; method to 3D print big components with metal could promise low-cost, high-quality builds with less waste; simulated small modular reactors on Summit ran more efficiently than expected.

Released: 30-Apr-2019 2:25 PM EDT
Snapshot: S&T’s Immersive Imaging System's High-Resolution Images & 360-degree Coverage, Provides Full Scene Situational Awareness
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

S&T’s Immersive Imaging System was recognized at the recent annual R&D 100 Conference among the 100 most exceptional innovations in science and technology from 2018.

29-Apr-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Study analyzes benefits of tracking devices for auto insurance
Washington University in St. Louis

Research published online late last month in Production and Operations Management provides an analytical framework to assess the impact of tracking/monitoring technology on both drivers and insurance companies — and shows how it can benefit both

Released: 30-Apr-2019 8:05 AM EDT
Bots exploiting blockchains for profit
Cornell University

Like high-frequency traders on Wall Street, a growing army of bots exploit inefficiencies in decentralized exchanges, which are places where users buy, sell or trade cryptocurrency independent of a central authority, a new study finds.

Released: 30-Apr-2019 7:05 AM EDT
Ablacon, Inc. Raises $21.5M Series A to Advance AI-Enabled Atrial Fibrillation Mapping System
Ablacon, Inc.

Ablacon, Inc. (www.ablacon.com), a Wheat Ridge, CO-based company developing an advanced mapping system to guide the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AFib)

29-Apr-2019 5:50 PM EDT
LLNL scientists combine X-rays and simulations to mitigate defects in metal 3D builds
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Combining high performance computer simulations with X-ray imaging of the laser powder bed fusion (LBPF) metal additive manufacturing process obtained with SLAC’s synchrotron, researchers have found a way to negate the formation of pores — tiny holes under the surface of a build that can initiate cracking in the finished part under stress.

Released: 29-Apr-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Patterns of compulsive smartphone use suggest how to kick the habit
University of Washington

UW researchers conducted in-depth interviews to learn why we compulsively check our phones.

   
Released: 29-Apr-2019 12:05 PM EDT
The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years
University of Oxford

New analysis by academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), part of the University of Oxford

Released: 26-Apr-2019 11:05 AM EDT
The cutting edge
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Geneticists have adapted CRISPR technology to correct Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutations (DMD).

Released: 26-Apr-2019 11:00 AM EDT
University of Maryland’s Schools of Medicine and Engineering First to Use Unmanned Aircraft to Deliver Kidney for Transplant
University of Maryland Medical Center

In a first-ever advancement in human medicine and aviation technology, a University of Maryland unmanned aircraft has delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore for successful transplantation into a patient with kidney failure. This successful demonstration illustrates the potential of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for providing organ deliveries that, in many cases, could be faster, safer, and more widely available than traditional transport methods. The momentous flight was a collaboration between transplant physicians and researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore; aviation and engineering experts at the University of Maryland; the University of Maryland Medical Center; and collaborators at the Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland.

Released: 26-Apr-2019 10:05 AM EDT
News Release: DHS S&T Awards $1.6M to Improve X-ray Scanning Capabilities
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T has awarded $1,656,206.00 to Halo X-ray Technologies Ltd (HXT) in Nottingham, UK, to develop and implement an automatic threat resolution system for use with X-ray imaging of carry-on and checked baggage.

   
Released: 25-Apr-2019 3:30 PM EDT
Filling in the Gaps of Connected Car Data Helps Transportation Planners
Michigan Technological University

A Michigan Tech engineer has created a method to fill in the gaps of available connected vehicle data, which will give transportation planners a more accurate picture of traffic in their cities. It is also a more cost-effective data gathering system than what is currently available.

Released: 25-Apr-2019 3:10 PM EDT
Bridge Over Coupled Waters: Scientists 3D-Print All-Liquid ‘Lab on a Chip’
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have 3D-printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications – from making battery materials to screening drug candidates.

Released: 25-Apr-2019 3:10 PM EDT
New Method Proposed for Studying Hydrodynamic Behavior of Electrons in Graphene
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

By studying how electrons in two-dimensional graphene can literally act like a liquid, researchers have paved the way for further research into a material that has the potential to enable future electronic computing devices that outpace silicon transistors.

25-Apr-2019 11:00 AM EDT
VirBELA Brings the Virtual Reality Workplace to the Real World
University of California San Diego

VirBELAis a virtual reality company that connects remote workers from around the world in an online environment. Recently acquired by eXp World Holdings, the company was formed at the University of California San Diego as a partnership between Rady School of Management and the Experimental Game Lab.



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