An international research collaboration has made an important discovery in the quest to help lower global agricultural methane emissions. The team has identified new processes that control m... Read more
Wearing a fitness tracker on your wrist or clipped to your belt is so 2013. Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have demonstrated thin, so... Read more
Competitions spur creativity and promise tangible results to address some of the world’s biggest problems Just over three years ago, engineer and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis took the winner... Read more
Researchers report that wood-biochar supercapacitors can produce as much power as today’s activated-carbon supercapacitors at a fraction of the cost – and with environmentally friendly bypro... Read more
“That raises the theoretical efficiency of the cell to 80 percent, which is quite remarkable.” Scientists have created a heat-resistant thermal emitter that could significantly i... Read more
Enables new classes of electronics, diagnostic devices and chemical sensors A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the... Read more
By using microfabrication techniques and incorporating the unique design of transistor-based heating with individual reaction volumes, ‘laboratory-on-a-chip’ technologies can be scaled down... Read more
Like turning coal to diamond, adding pressure to an electrical material enhances its properties. Now, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have devised a method of making f... Read more
Wondering if that electrical wall outlet is properly insulated? Want to see if there’s a person standing in that dark alley? Well, perhaps what you need is a thermal imaging system for your... Read more
They are also working on creating robots of different shapes, different numbers of legs, and robots that could climb slopes or steps. They’re soft, biocompatible, about 7 millimeters long –... Read more
Boy am I really starting to hate that Chicken Little It looks like Chicken Little may have gotten it right after all. This time, the proverbial sky may actually be falling. According... Read more