AtScale appoints John Langton as VP of AI Engineering
AtScale announced the appointment of John Langton as vice president of AI engineering. John joins the AtScale executive team to lead engineering efforts for the company’s fast-growing ML/AI business. He will oversee the development of technical str.....»»
Using Berry phase monopole engineering for high-temperature spintronic devices
Spintronic devices are electronic devices that utilize the spin of electrons (an intrinsic form of angular momentum possessed by the electron) to achieve high-speed processing and low-cost data storage. In this regard, spin-transfer torque is a key p.....»»
Ant behavior inspires autonomous material assembly research
The survival strategies employed by one of the most aggressive, territorial and venomous ant species may pave the way to revolutionize robotics, medicine and engineering......»»
Harnessing sensors, smart devices, and AI could transform agriculture
Biosensing engineer Azahar Ali, assistant professor of animal sciences and biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech, is bracing for the arrival of a fourth agricultural revolution......»»
New insights on how light interacts with magnets for better sensors and memory tech
Professor Amir Capua, head of the Spintronics Lab within the Institute of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, announced a pivotal breakthrough in the realm of light-magnetism interactions. The team's unexpect.....»»
A novel avenue for engineering 2D MXene family via precious metals atomic layer deposition techniques
A team of researchers, led by Professor Soo-Hyun Kim in the Graduate School of Semiconductors Materials and Devices Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has made significant progress in precisely controlling pr.....»»
Emerging cybersecurity trends and expectations for 2024
In this Help Net Security video, John Dwyer, Head of Research at IBM X-Force, discusses how 2024 is poised to be an incredibly impactful year for cyber attacks, driven by world events and access to advanced technologies like AI. The post Emerging cyb.....»»
What’s new on Netflix and what’s leaving in January 2024
Netflix's January 2024 lineup includes Fool Me Once, Bitconned, This Is Us, Aquaman, Masters of the Universe: Revolution, and the first three John Wick films......»»
The best shows on Apple TV+ right now (January 2024)
The best shows on Apple TV+ right now include John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial, a must-watch for Beatles fans, and hidden gems like Loot......»»
Novel electrification strategy enhances low-temperature NOx removal
Prof. Zhang Jian's group from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cooperating with Prof. Zhang Zhaoliang's group from University of Jinan, has developed a novel electrification strategy to.....»»
Artificial design and biosynthesis of a single-domain catenated dihydrofolate reductase
This study was led by Prof. Wen-Bin Zhang (College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University & Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence) and Dr. Jing Fang (College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University). A single.....»»
Model suggests some asteroids that come close to Earth are torn apart by its gravity
A pair of astronomers, one with Luleå University of Technology's Asteroid Engineering Laboratory, in Finland, the other with the Southwest Research Institute, in the U.S., has found via computer simulation, that some large asteroids that come close.....»»
Apple hardware execs discuss "profound" changes in chip business
Apple's work to bring the design of components in-house is the most "profound change" for the company in the last 20 years, an interview with its hardware chiefs reveals.John Ternus [left] and Johny Srouji [right], via CNBCIn an interview recorded in.....»»
Bioengineers building the intersection of organoids and AI with "Brainoware"
Feng Guo, an associate professor of intelligent systems engineering at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, is addressing the technical limitations of artificial intelligence computing hardware by developing.....»»
Idaho board drops wolf-killing proposals submitted by trapper without ranchers" knowledge
Nearly two months ago, John Faulkner and members of the Peavey family, which owns Flat Top Ranch in the Wood River Valley, learned that an application with their names attached for state dollars to kill wolves would move ahead. But they never knew ab.....»»
Swift 4-D printing with shape-memory polymers
Shape-memory polymers or shape-shifting materials are smart materials that have gained significant attention within materials science and biomedical engineering in recent years to build smart structures and devices. Digital light processing is a vat.....»»
An advanced computational tool for understanding quantum materials
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME), Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia have developed a new computational tool to describe how the atoms within quantum ma.....»»
All-optical object identification and three-dimensional reconstruction based on optical computing metasurface
As object identification and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques become essential in various reverse engineering, artificial intelligence, medical diagnosis, and industrial production fields, there is an increasing focus on seeking vastl.....»»
Sustainable, more efficient synthesis route of hyaluronic acid polymers for biomedical applications
Hydrogels—polymer networks with high water content—can act as a tissue mimic, providing conditions for a viable culture of embedded cells, with various applications in biomedical engineering such as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine......»»
Mineral coatings could enable shelf-stable mRNA therapies
A protective mineral coating identified by University of Wisconsin–Madison biomedical engineering researchers could allow powerful messenger RNA therapeutics like COVID-19 vaccines to be stored at room temperature, making them more accessible to lo.....»»
3D material found to break down antidepressant that contaminates water bodies worldwide
An study published in the Chemical Engineering Journal describes a strategy to produce a material based on zinc oxide (ZnO) capable of degrading sertraline, an antidepressant that has been detected, like other drugs, in groundwater worldwide and is c.....»»