Engineering and Construction News
May 20, 2024
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May 20, 2024 — Using more robots to close labor gaps in the hospitality industry may backfire and cause more human workers to quit, according to a new study. The study, involving more than 620 lodging and food service employees, found that 'robot-phobia' -- ...
May 20, 2024 — Scientists have taken a step closer to replicating nature's processes of self-assembly. The study describes the synthetic construction of a tiny, self-assembled crystal known as a 'pyrochlore,' which bears unique optical properties. The advance ...
May 16, 2024 — Researchers have investigated how spiders listen to their environments through webs and found that the webs match the acoustic particle velocity for a wide range of sound frequencies. Playing sound ranging from 1 Hz to 50 kHz for the spiders and ...
May 17, 2024 — Two-dimensional materials such as graphene promise to form the basis of incredibly small and fast technologies, but this requires a detailed understanding of their electronic properties. New research demonstrates that fast electronic processes can ...
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May 16, 2024 — Perovskite hydrides are promising materials for various emerging energy technologies, but measuring their intrinsic hydride-ion conductivity is difficult. In a recent study, researchers address this ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis on the carbon footprint of constructing a wooden house in Japan. The team found that the estimated carbon footprint of a house in Japan is 38 tons of ...
May 15, 2024 — SuperLimbs, a system of wearable robotic limbs, can physically support an astronaut and lift them back on their feet after a fall, helping them conserve energy for other essential ...
May 15, 2024 — Fire ants form rafts to survive flooding, but how do those bonds work? And what can we learn from them? A professor is researching those questions to expand our knowledge of materials ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method that can lead to significant energy savings in buildings. The team identified 28 major heat loss regions in a multi-unit residential building with the most ...
May 15, 2024 — Thirteen years after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), a breakthrough in analysis has permitted a world first: direct imaging of radioactive cesium (Cs) atoms ...
May 15, 2024 — New modelling reveals that low-carbon concrete can recycle double the amount of coal ash compared to current standards, halve the amount of cement required and perform exceptionally well over ...
May 15, 2024 — Research could pave the way for a prosthetic hand and robot to be able to feel touch like a human hand. The technology could also be used to help restore lost functionality to patients after a ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers who contributed to the development of record-breaking solar cells a few years ago, expanded their invention. The self-assembled monolayers can now be applied not only in inverted but also ...
May 15, 2024 — Instead of burning fossil fuels to smelt steel and cook cement, researchers in Switzerland want to use heat from the sun. The proof-of-concept study ...
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May 14, 2024 — A new study shows that chlorine mixed with petroleum in water can potentially produce inadvertent byproducts harmful to human ...
May 14, 2024 — A prototype of a more durable material increases the biodegradability of food packaging, partially replacing its bioplastic with cellulose fibers extracted from the branches and leaves of the avocado ...
May 14, 2024 — Japanese washi paper is renowned for its aesthetic beauty and its wide-array of usages. Now, a group of researchers have made a green composite material from washi which boasts a 60% increase in ...
May 14, 2024 — A new device that can process information using a small amount of light could enable energy-efficient and secure ...
May 14, 2024 — Engineers achieve a wide field-of-hearing acoustic metalens free from ...
May 14, 2024 — A team of scientists has developed a novel technique to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) from treated flue gas directly into high-value chemicals and fuels. This innovation sidesteps the conventional ...
May 13, 2024 — Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well ...
May 13, 2024 — Collaborative efforts decode the mechanism behind stabilizing cathode doping in electric vehicle ...
May 9, 2024 — A research team has demonstrated that an iron-based amorphous alloy, widely used as a soft magnetic material in transformers and motors, can be transformed into a 'transverse' ...
May 9, 2024 — A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as PFAS or poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances. It involves treating heavily ...
May 9, 2024 — Researchers report a new method that reduces the amount of iridium needed to produce hydrogen from water by 95%, without altering the rate of hydrogen production. This breakthrough could ...
May 9, 2024 — Scientists delve into the composition of nanocomposites for ultraviolet metasurface ...
May 9, 2024 — The global chemical industry is a major fossil fuel consumer and climate change contributor; however, new research has identified how the sector could clean up its green credentials by getting ...
May 7, 2024 — Tracking individual enzymes during the breakdown of cellulose for biofuel production has revealed how several roadblocks slow this process when using plant material that might otherwise go to waste. ...
May 7, 2024 — Researchers developed a silk fabric, which is barely thicker than a human hair, that can suppress unwanted noise and reduce noise transmission in a large ...
May 7, 2024 — Move over, graphene. There's a new, improved two-dimensional material in the lab. Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, is more conductive, thinner, lighter, ...
May 7, 2024 — The natural vein structure found within leaves -- which has inspired the structural design of porous materials that can maximize mass transfer -- could unlock improvements in energy storage, ...
May 7, 2024 — Researchers reveal a new pathway for designing optical materials using the degree of atomic disorder. The researchers anticipate developing crystals that enable advanced infrared imaging in low light ...
May 6, 2024 — Engineers created a catapillar-shaped robot that splits into segments and reassembles, hauls cargo, and crawls through twisting ...
May 6, 2024 — By using experimental electrochemical analyses, mass spectrometry, and computational quantum chemistry modeling, the researchers created an 'atomic-scale storyline' to explain how ozone is ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Petroleum, Chlorine Mix Could Yield Harmful Byproducts
- Avocado Pruning Residues Used to Produce More Sustainable Food Packaging
- Creating a Green Composite Material from Japanese Washi Paper
- Speedy, Secure, Sustainable -- That's the Future of Telecom
- Metalens Expands Its Reach from Light to Sound
- Transforming Waste Carbon Dioxide Into High-Value Chemicals With a Cost Reduction of About 30%
Monday, May 13, 2024
- Cats Purrfectly Demonstrate What It Takes to Trust Robots
- Hide and Seek Between Atoms: Find the Dopant
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- Transforming Common Soft Magnets Into a Next-Generation Thermoelectric Conversion Materials by 3 Minutes Heat Treatment
- New 'forever Chemical' Cleanup Strategy Discovered
- Manganese Sprinkled With Iridium: A Quantum Leap in Green Hydrogen Production
- Discover Optimal Conditions for Mass Production of Ultraviolet Holograms
- Getting Dirty to Clean Up the Chemical Industry's Environmental Impact
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Why Is Breaking Down Plant Material for Biofuels So Slow?
- This Sound-Suppressing Silk Can Create Quiet Spaces
- 'Better Than Graphene' Material Development May Improve Implantable Technology
- Bio-Inspired Materials' Potential for Efficient Mass Transfer Boosted by a New Twist on a Century-Old Theory
- Tiny Displacements, Giant Changes in Optical Properties
Monday, May 6, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
- When Injecting Pure Spin Into Chiral Materials, Direction Matters
- Tweaking Isotopes Sheds Light on Promising Approach to Engineer Semiconductors
- Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch Sensitivity
- Towards Transparent and Antimicrobial Surfaces for Touch Displays
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Eco-Friendly Lubricant Additives Protect Turbine Equipment, Waterways
- Sugar-Based Catalyst Upcycles Carbon Dioxide
- Random Robots Are More Reliable
- New Approach in the Synthesis of Complex Natural Substances
- Cost-Effective, High-Capacity, and Cyclable Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes
- New Mirror That Can Be Flexibly Shaped Improves X-Ray Microscopes
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Researchers Unlock Potential of 2D Magnetic Devices for Future Computing
- Marriage of Synthetic Biology and 3D Printing Produces Programmable Living Materials
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Scientists Solve Chemical Mystery at the Interface of Biology and Technology
- Under Examination: Buckling -- When Structures Suddenly Collapse
- Biodegradable 'living Plastic' Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down
- Innovation Promises to Prevent Power Pole-Top Fires
- Discovery of Mechanism Plants Use to Change Seed Oil Could Impact Industrial, Food Oils
- New Technology Makes 3D Microscopes Easier to Use, Less Expensive to Manufacture
- Lead-Vacancy Centers in Diamond as Building Blocks for Large-Scale Quantum Networks
Monday, April 29, 2024
- Details of Hurricane Ian's Aftermath Captured With New Remote Sensing Method
- When Does a Conductor Not Conduct?
- Scientists Develop Strong Yet Reusable Adhesive from Smart Materials
- Physicists Show That Light Can Generate Electricity Even in Translucent Materials
Friday, April 26, 2024
- Tomography-Based Digital Twins of Nd-Fe-B Magnets
- Imaging Technique Shows New Details of Peptide Structures
- New Circuit Boards Can Be Repeatedly Recycled
- Why Can't Robots Outrun Animals?
- Professor Resolves Two Decades of Oxide Semiconductor Challenges
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Key to Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
- Freeze Casting: A Guide to Creating Hierarchically Structured Materials
- Discovering Exceptional Oxide Ion Conductivity at Lower Temperatures
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Scientists Tune the Entanglement Structure in an Array of Qubits
- Rubber-Like Stretchable Energy Storage Device Fabricated With Laser Precision
- Pattern Formation in the Nano-Cosmos
- A Simple 'twist' Improves the Engine of Clean Fuel Generation
- Condensed Matter Physics: Novel One-Dimensional Superconductor
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
- Energy Scientists Unravel the Mystery of Gold's Glow
- Development of Organic Semiconductors Featuring Ultrafast Electrons
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Silent Flight Edges Closer to Take Off
- Octopus Inspires New Suction Mechanism for Robots
- Novel Material Supercharges Innovation in Electrostatic Energy Storage
- An Ink for 3D-Printing Flexible Devices Without Mechanical Joints
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Clearing the Air: Wind Farms More Land Efficient Than Previously Thought
- Atom-by-Atom: Imaging Structural Transformations in 2D Materials
- How 3D Printers Can Give Robots a Soft Touch
- From Defects to Order: Spontaneously Emerging Crystal Arrangements in Perovskite Halides
- Novel Robotic Training Program Reduces Physician Errors Placing Central Lines
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- 'Nanostitches' Enable Lighter and Tougher Composite Materials
- Trash to Treasure -- Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst for Hydrogen
- Cooler Transformers Could Help Electric Grid
- Researchers Advance Pigment Chemistry With Moon-Inspired Reddish Magentas
- A Single Atom Layer of Gold: Researchers Create Goldene
Monday, April 15, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- 'Surprising' Hidden Activity of Semiconductor Material Spotted by Researchers
- Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future
- Discovery Brings All-Solid-State Sodium Batteries Closer to Practical Use
- Nothing Is Everything: How Hidden Emptiness Can Define the Usefulness of Filtration Materials
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- New 3D-Printing Method Makes Printing Objects More Affordable and Eco-Friendly
- Revolutionary Molecular Device Unleashes Potential for Targeted Drug Delivery and Self-Healing Materials
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- A Smarter City Skyline for Flood Safety
- New Technique Lets Scientists Create Resistance-Free Electron Channels
- BESSY II: How Pulsed Charging Enhances the Service Time of Batteries
Monday, April 8, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Progress in Quantum Physics: Researchers Tame Superconductors
- Self-Assembly of Complex Systems: Hexagonal Building Blocks Are Better
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Researchers Discover 'neutronic Molecules'
- Machine Learning Enables Viability of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines
- Plant-Based Plastic Releases Nine Times Less Microplastics Than Conventional Plastic
- New Granular Materials Flow but Can Still Be Compressed
- Plastic-Free Vegan Leather That Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria
- Research Reveals Pre-Collapse Monitoring of Kakhovka Dam, Ukraine
- Intelligent Liquid
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Building Blocks for Greener Energy: Reconfigurable Elastic Metasurface
- Biofilm-Resistant Glass for Marine Environments