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UrduORNL story tips: Nanoscale commuting, easy driver and defect detection
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Story tips: Nanoscale commuting, easy driver and defect detection
Microscopy — Nanoscale commuting Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS, contributed to a groundbreaking experiment published in Science that tracks the real-time transport of individual molecules. A team led by the University of Graz, Austria,…
Super surfaces
Terahertz waves to help bounce wireless communication into the next generation
Scientists suggested a method to improve performance of methanol fuel cells
Fuel cells based on methanol oxidation have a huge potential in the motor and technical industries. To increase their energy performance, scientists suggest using electrodes made of thin palladium-based metallic glass films. A group of researchers from Far Eastern Federal…
New engine capability accelerates advanced vehicle research
EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2020, 3 PM US EASTERN. In the quest for advanced vehicles with higher energy efficiency and ultra-low emissions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are accelerating a research engine that gives scientists and engineers an unprecedented…
UArizona researcher wins $1 million NSF C-Accel Grant
University of Arizona researcher Zheshen Zhang leads a team to create sensor systems for navigation, health care and communications — on Earth and beyond
NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests
Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA’s fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed a final series of large-scale deployment and tensioning tests. This milestone puts the observatory one step closer to its…
Army strengthens future tech with muscle-bound robots
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Robotic systems packed with muscle tissue can produce never-seen-before agility and versatility, Army researchers said. Researchers with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory are teaming with collaborators…
Invention may get Army quadcopters to move faster
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Researchers believe a new hinge is the key to get load-bearing, large, Army quadrotors to climb a few dozen feet in seconds. Dr. Jean-Paul Reddinger, a research aerospace engineer with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities…
Clemson, US Army to develop next generation of autonomous vehicle tools, prototyping
$18M in government funding supports new Virtual Prototyping of Ground Systems Center at CU-ICAR
SwRI receives $4 million contract to maintain supersonic training aircraft
Institute engineers continue to maintain integrity of T-38 Talon
Increasing safety for electric cars and pedestrians
An interdisciplinary research group at Virginia Tech is using an award of $550,000 to create a virtual environment to test safety measures for the interaction between electric vehicles (EVs) and pedestrians. The award is an 18-month project funded by the…
Algorithms and automation: Making new technology faster and cheaper
Additive manufacturing (AM) machinery has advanced over time, however, the necessary software for new machines often lags behind. To help mitigate this issue, Penn State researchers designed an automated process planning software to save money, time and design resources. Newer,…
Army looks to improve quadrotor drone performance
Researchers develop algorithms to enable drones to quickly switch between hover and forward flight
Etihad becomes first airline to join UKs leading digital aviation research project
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has joined the £65 million Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC), due to open next year at Cranfield University. Etihad is the first airline to join the DARTeC consortium…
Wind tunnel tests will help design future Army tiltrotor aircraft
Army researchers will study whirl flutter behavior to determine the viability of new tiltrotor analysis tool
Tire-related chemical is largely responsible for adult coho salmon deaths in urban streams
A team led by researchers at the University of Washington Tacoma, UW and Washington State University Puyallup have discovered a chemical that kills coho salmon in urban streams before the fish can spawn.
Army computer models unveil secret to quieter small drones
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — It’s no secret the U.S. Army wants its small unmanned aerial systems to operate quietly in densely-populated regions, but tests to achieve this can be expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive according to researchers. Miranda Costenoble, a…
RABus rolls out self-driving busses
New collaboration project to test electrified and autonomous vehicles in regular traffic — KIT studies acceptance and impacts
Army researchers look to reduce rotorcraft noise
Experimental, simulation results reveal how coaxial, co-rotating rotors may lead to a quieter hover
How automated vehicles can impede driver performance, and what to do about it
University of Toronto Engineering study reveals some in-vehicle displays, such as takeover displays, leads to driver overreliance.
Flight tests to show B61-12 will work on Air Force’s newest fighter jet
Versatile Sandia design tested with most advanced multirole fighter jet
Artificial intelligence to increase air safety in the face of storms
Sometimes, during flights, aircrafts have to change their route (their flight plan) because of unforeseen events, such as storms. These meteorological phenomena, which may be accompanied by hail and lightning, are difficult to predict; they are known to appear in…
Showing robots how to drive a car…in just a few easy lessons
USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations.
Small finlets on owl feathers point the way to less aircraft noise
Collaboration between between City, University of London and RWTH Aachen University researchers reveals how these micro-structures enable silent flight.
Machine learning guarantees robots’ performance in unknown territory
A small drone takes a test flight through a space filled with randomly placed cardboard cylinders acting as stand-ins for trees, people or structures. The algorithm controlling the drone has been trained on a thousand simulated obstacle-laden courses, but it’s…
SwRI receives $7.2 million contract to test AI in air taxi design project
SwRI to create components that will evaluate design capabilities of artificial intelligence-based system
Driver behavior influences traffic patterns as much as roadway design, study reports
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Urban planners may soon have a new way to measure traffic congestion. By capturing the different routes by which vehicles can travel between locations, researchers have developed a new computer algorithm that helps quantify regions of congestion…
Urban gulls adapt foraging schedule to human activity patterns
Tiny GPS backpacks reveal long suspected truth: gulls know when & where to find human food
SwRI hacks electric vehicle charging to demonstrate cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Project disrupted EV charging process by simulating man-in-the-middle attack
Cockroaches and lizards inspire new robot developed by Ben-Gurion University researcher
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…November 2, 2020 – A new high-speed amphibious robot inspired by the movements of cockroaches and lizards, developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, swims and runs on top of water at high speeds and crawls on…
Intelligent maintenance: Improved maintenance management for track
Train journeys should be safe and comfortable, and track systems are crucial to this. So-called “tamping” (positioning, compacting and stabilizing) of the ballast in the track bed is one of the most important maintenance tasks in the railway industry. Special…
The chemistry behind self-driving cars
Self-driving, electric cars have been touted as the next big thing in transportation. While this technology has progressed in recent years, experts caution that automakers will need the chemical industry to help make it a reality. A new article in…
Cloud-based framework leads to improved efficiency in disaster-area management
For the first time, researchers have implemented a cloud-based, highly efficient control system to aid first responders in disaster-area management. When disaster strikes, nothing is certain. From hazardous chemical leaks to destroyed communications infrastructure, the terrain encountered by first responders…
Rice rolls out next-gen nanocars
Chemists prepare single-molecule racecars in anticipation of 2022 competition
Zhang and Dong receive funding for remotely operated vehicle with underwater GPS
Feitian Zhang, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Pei Dong, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, received $15,000 from U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate and the Virginia Microelectronics Consortium (VMEC) to purchase a remotely operated vehicle with underwater…
Charging electric cars up to 90% in 6 minutes
With Telsa in the lead, the electric vehicle market is growing around the world. Unlike conventional cars that use internal combustion engines, electric cars are solely powered by lithium ion batteries, so the battery performance defines the car’s overall performance.…
New research projects to explore use of drones for medical delivery purposes
Cranfield University is participating in two new research projects that focus on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for medical delivery purposes. There are over 2.5 million movements of medical supplies, samples and other items between hospitals and medical…
Pufferfish-inspired robot could improve drone safety
If you get too close to a pufferfish, this undersea creature will blow up like a balloon to scare you away. Now, a team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a robot that can do much…
Plugging in: Survey examines American perceptions of — and resistance to — electric vehicles
The latest installment of the Climate Insights 2020 report series finds that resistance to purchasing electric vehicles derives from a variety of sources — and those reasons differ among some demographics
New ‘green’ engine for lorries ahead of the demanding anti-contamination regulation
It would decrease the levels of NOx and soot by 92% and 88% respectively, and the CO2 emissions from the exhaust pipe by 15%
Army readies charging port for autonomous drone swarms
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — A swarm of hundreds of unmanned air vehicles will soon descend on unmanned ground vehicles to autonomously recharge, thanks to U.S. Army-funded research now underway at the University of Illinois Chicago. The U.S. Army Combat…
Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
Study shows that robot swarms can follow instructions to create paintings, suggesting that artists could incorporate such technology into their work
UCF researchers are working on tech so machines can thermally ‘breathe’
The UCF researchers are developing a way for large machines to “breathe” in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.
New UCF project examines how stress and corrosion cracks start in aircraft components
Funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will allow aerospace engineering Professor Ranajay Ghosh to develop computer models to pinpoint the origins of stress-corrosion cracking
Successful crash test meets major milestone for nuclear deterrence program
Sandia team worked through COVID-19 challenges, delivered results on time
Rutgers Expert Can Discuss How to Avoid Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions
New Brunswick, N.J. (Oct. 7, 2020) – With deer breeding season underway, Kathleen Kerwin, a wildlife expert at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, is available for interviews on defensive driving to avoid wildlife-vehicle collisions, what to do if you see wildlife crossing…
Beat the heat: Novel passive cooling device for surfaces and enclosed spaces
Scientists engineer the first passive radiative device that absorbs heat from the inside of an enclosure and emits it on the outside
Aerodynamicists reveal link between fish scales and aircraft drag
City, University of London’s Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team have transferred the idea of fish scales to arrays of bio-inspired scales which are capable of producing a streaky flow that could reduce skin friction drag by more than 25 percent.
Droplet breakup could hold the key to more efficient engines
Texas A&M researchers analyze droplet reactions in detonation waves for use in liquid-fueled engines