Smart sensing metamaterials integrate engineered micro- and nano-structured media with sensing, communication, and actuation functions across acoustic, optical, electromagnetic, and mechanical domains. Work in this area spans metamaterial-enabled wave control, metasurfaces, and auxetic or lattice architectures combined with MEMS, e-skins, and e-textiles to monitor physiological signals, structural integrity, and environmental conditions. These systems often employ flexible, printable, or biodegradable platforms, multiplexed readout, and self-powered operation to enable distributed, real-time, and unobtrusive measurement in wearable, industrial, underwater, and aerospace applications.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Meta has developed a new flat ultra-thin panel laser display that could lead to lighter, more immersive augmented reality (AR) glasses and improve the picture quality of smartphones, tablets and televisions. The new display ...
Robotics
Nature, the master engineer, is coming to our rescue again. Inspired by scorpions, scientists have created new pressure sensors that are both highly sensitive and able to work across a wide variety of pressures.
Telecom
MIT researchers have developed a reconfigurable antenna that dynamically adjusts its frequency range by changing its physical shape, making it more versatile for communications and sensing than static antennas.
Aug 18, 2025
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Engineering
High frequency radio waves can wirelessly carry the vast amount of data demanded by emerging technology like virtual reality, but as engineers push into the upper reaches of the radio spectrum, they are hitting walls. Literally.
Aug 18, 2025
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Engineering
A new breakthrough from the Zhang Lab at Boston University is making waves in the world of sound control.
Aug 6, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research team led by Professor Jinho Chang from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at DGIST has developed an "ultrasound-based wireless charging technology" capable of rapidly and efficiently ...
Aug 4, 2025
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Engineering
Maintaining wind turbines and identifying potential vulnerabilities is expensive and time-consuming, especially when they are located offshore. As a result, rotor blades are often simply replaced, a costly process when damage ...
Aug 1, 2025
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Engineering
Researchers have successfully demonstrated a spectrometer that is orders of magnitude smaller than current technologies and can accurately measure wavelengths of light from ultraviolet to the near-infrared. The technology ...
Jul 28, 2025
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Engineering
Most people envision vibration on a large scale, like the buzz of a cell phone notification or the oscillation of an electric toothbrush. But scientists think about vibration on a smaller scale—atomic, even.
Jul 26, 2025
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Engineering
Complex tubes with flanges, joints and other components, characterized by a large number of diverse shapes and complex structures, are key parts of aircraft engines, rockets and other equipment. In order to ensure the smooth ...
Jul 21, 2025
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