Energy & Green Tech
Scientists are closer to giving the next generation of solar cells a powerful boost by integrating a process that could make the technology more efficient by breaking particles of light—photons—into small chunks.
Jul 26, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A research team at Rice University led by James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and nanoengineering, is tackling the environmental issue of efficiently recycling lithium ...
Jul 24, 2024
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Robotics
Using a newly-devised complex algorithm, the researchers have created a perfectly choreographed "dance" using two robotic arms, continuously retaining a clear space between them—where a patient's body would fit—as well ...
Jul 24, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
When everything shakes, precision is usually impossible—everybody who has ever tried to take a photo with shaky hands or make handwritten notes on a bumpy bus journey knows that. With technical precision measurements, even ...
Jul 17, 2024
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Engineering
Computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices require active cooling to prevent overheating. Typically, devices in the entertainment industry and power electronics are cooled by directing an airflow to specific areas. ...
Jun 25, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Imagine finding your location without GPS. Now apply this to tracking an item in the body. This has been the challenge with tracking "smart" pills—pills equipped with smart sensors–once swallowed. At the USC Viterbi School ...
Jun 14, 2024
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Engineering
In the early 2010s, LightSquared, a multibillion-dollar startup promising to revolutionize cellular communications, declared bankruptcy. The company couldn't figure out how to prevent its signals from interfering with those ...
May 24, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
The electric guitar has been a core element of popular music for much of the past century. Pickups are the components that turn vibrations from the strings into electricity for sound and can be seen as the "heart" of the ...
May 15, 2024
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Robotics
When old food packaging, discarded children's toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits of plastic also attract bacteria, ...
May 8, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Professor Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich and Austria's Complexity Science Hub expects future digital technologies to penetrate the human body even more in the future. However, he believes that society is not prepared for the ...
May 7, 2024
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