Newswise Feature Channel: Engineering

Video: The UW's assistive-feeding robot gets tested outside the lab

University of Washington — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:25:17 EST

UW researchers deployed a robotic feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with motor impairments used the robot to feed themselves a meal in a UW cafeteria, an office or a conference room. In the second study, a community researcher and co-author on the research used the system at home for five days.

Scientists cook up the perfect recipe to feed an energy future

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:20:28 EST

After five years of trying to find the right ingredients, scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) believe they have created the perfect recipe to fuel the world's first critical fast-spectrum molten salt reactor. The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) at INL will test a new type of nuclear reactor that uses a mixture of [...]

Raikes School Pals Dream Big with College-Matching App

University of Nebraska-Lincoln — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:40:25 EST

Kenny Morales and Wilson Overfield, second-year students in the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, believe they can solve a problem

Study Details Method for Recycling Platinum Catalysts From Industrial Streams

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:05:11 EST

University of Illinois researchers have developed a method to recycle platinum catalysts used in the production of valuable silicone materials. A team led by chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Xiao Su details a method to recover these catalysts using specially designed molecular attachments and advanced electrochemical separation technologies.

E. (Sarah) Du, Ph.D., Named Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors

Florida Atlantic University — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:30:34 EST

Du's research focuses on pioneering engineering solutions, developing single-cell assays and creating advanced in vitro disease models. These efforts span both basic research in cellular biomechanics and biophysics and applied biomedical applications, such as point-of-care diagnostic tools and monitoring systems for diseases such as sickle cell disease.

Making Traffic Safer: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Team Uses Artificial Intelligence to Improve Intersection Safety

Florida State University — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:10:46 EST

A team of researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering is exploring how existing technology and new algorithms can prevent potential crashes at intersections and pave the way for smarter, safer roads.

QSA Quantum Technologies Advance Insights into Materials Physics

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:05:10 EST

QSA plays a critical role in supporting the missions of the DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program.

U-Michigan, UC Riverside Launch Alliance to Promote Hydrogen-Fueled Internal Combustion Engines

University of Michigan — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:50:49 EST

Hydrogen has the potential to power internal combustion engines, including on-road and off-road vehicles and equipment, and large marine engines. Despite its promise to reduce climate change emissions such as carbon dioxide and harmful pollutants, hydrogen has largely remained underutilized in the United States. Officials at the University of Michigan and University of California, Riverside, along with several industry partners, are working to change that with the launch of the Hydrogen Engine Alliance of North America, or H2EA-NA. The alliance will promote hydrogen as a viable alternative fuel that can complement internal combustion engine, or ICE, vehicles while supporting the transition to electric and other zero emission technologies.

Quantum Properties in Atom-thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells

University of California San Diego — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:45:26 EST

For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, UC San Diego engineers have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom thick can do the job with high speed and resolution--using only light.

Expert Available: Success for Firefly- Blue Ghost Lunar Landed on the Moon

George Washington University — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:15:21 EST

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Nebraska Engineering Creates Dual Degree Program with Nebraska Wesleyan

University of Nebraska-Lincoln — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:00:03 EST

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering and Nebraska Wesleyan University are partnering on a program to enable students to earn bachel

Missouri S&T Researcher's Robotic Bridge Inspection System Wins ASCE's 2025 Pankow Award

Missouri University of Science and Technology — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:50:55 EST

A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a robotic system to make bridge inspections faster, more comprehensive and safer. Dr. Genda Chen's invention, called the Bridge Inspection Robot Deployment System, or BIRDS, has been selected for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2025 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation.

S&T Professor Wins Medal From International Steel Manufacturing Association

Missouri University of Science and Technology — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:45:24 EST

Dr. Ronald J. O'Malley, Missouri University of Science and Technology's F. Kenneth Iverson Endowed Chair of Steelmaking Technologies, has been selected to receive the 2025 Tadeusz Sendzimir Memorial Medal for Innovation in Steel Manufacturing Technology from the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST).

A Healing Space - Built for Today - With Tomorrow in Mind

Hackensack Meridian Health — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:00:20 EST

The Helena Theurer Pavilion Earns LEED Silver Certification

New Biosensor Can Detect Airborne Bird Flu in Under Five Minutes

Washington University in St. Louis — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:05:50 EST

As highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in the U.S., posing serious threats to dairy and poultry farms, both farmers and public health experts need better ways to monitor for infections, in real time, to mitigate and respond to outbreaks.

Expert Available: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care

Wake Forest University School of Medicine — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:05:14 EST

White Paper: Treating Pancreatic Tumors Without Invasive Surgery - Experts Weigh In

Focused Ultrasound Foundation — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:35:08 EST

Bio-Inspired Electronics: Soft, Biohybrid, and "Living" Neural Interfaces

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:40:17 EST

New device could allow you to taste a cake in virtual reality

Ohio State University — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:00:00 EST

Novel technology intends to redefine the virtual reality experience by expanding to incorporate a new sensory connection: taste.

Development of 'Transparent Stretchable Substrate' Without Image Distortion Could Revolutionize Next-Generation Displays

National Research Council of Science and Technology — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:55 EST

A research team led by Dr. Jeong Gon Son of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Professor Yongtaek Hong of Seoul National University has developed a nanostructure-aligned stretchable substrate that dramatically lowers the Poisson's ratio.