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Manufacturing – Tailoring performance

“A new manufacturing method created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rice University combines 3D printing with traditional casting to produce damage-tolerant components composed of multiple materials. Composite components made by pouring an aluminum alloy over a printed steel lattice …

‘Near-zero-power’ temperature sensor could make wearables, smart home devices less power-hungry

“Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on only 113 picowatts of power — 628 times lower power than the state of the art and about 10 billion times smaller than a …

Neutrons detect elusive Higgs amplitude mode in quantum material

“A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has used sophisticated neutron scattering techniques to detect an elusive quantum state known as the Higgs amplitude mode in a two-dimensional material. The Higgs amplitude mode is …

Roombot: Room Cleaning Robot

“RoomBot is a room cleaning robot that moves around the room avoiding obstacles, picking up dust and wiping the floor. Have you ever imagined a toy-like machine (trust me it is much more complex than a toy) that can be …

Secrets of superfluid helium explored

“When Cornell physicists Robert Richardson, David Lee and Douglas Osheroff received the 1996 Nobel Prize for their discovery of the superfluid state of liquid helium, it was only the beginning. Now a new team of Cornell researchers, building on that …

Toward the next generation of superconductors and lithium-ion batteries

“Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo have applied advanced scanning methods to visualize the previously unexplored surface of a superconductor: lithium titanate (LiTi2O4). LiTi2O4 is the only known example of a so-called spinel1 …

UW-Madison researchers tackle bias in algorithms

“If you’ve ever applied for a loan or checked your credit score, algorithms have played a role in your life. These mathematical models allow computers to use data to predict many things — who is likely to pay back a …

WIFI Enabled LED Matrix

“This projects has an Arduino UNO connected to a 7219 LED Matrix with 4- 8x8 blocks. The Arduino is also connected to a ESP8266-12 Development board.The ESP8266-12 (NodeMCU)Connects to your Wifi (you supply SSID and password …

A Sudoku Solver’s Robot

“A robot that solves and fills alone a sudoku’ grid ! Sudoku are digital puzzles that computers can solve automatically because they obey some simple mathematical rules. The main objective of this project was to build a rudimentary and autonomous robot …

Amid Unprecedented Controversy, W3C Greenlights DRM for the Web

“Early today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body publicly announced its intention to publish Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)—a DRM standard for web video—with no safeguards whatsoever for accessibility, security research or competition, despite an unprecedented internal …