Technology developed at UC Riverside has wide applications, from designing better cars and smartphones to high-tech baseball gloves Imagine an automobile crash test that uses test dummies pa... Read more
The worst has happened. You receive an emailed kidnap demand with a picture of your loved one in dire straits. You contact the authorities, and in a flash (relatively speaking), they have id... Read more
Caltech engineers show how to make cost-effective, ultra-high-performance microscopes Engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a method to convert a relativ... Read more
A new technique enables the conversion of an ordinary camera into a light-field camera capable of recording high-resolution, multiperspective images. Computational photography is the use of... Read more
When self-driving cars reach the masses, thanks may be due to a 19-year-old high-school student from Romania who developed an artificial intelligence that slashes the cost of the technology.... Read more
Today’s 3D scanners are either very expensive or require significant effort to produce acceptable results. Chester, UK based CADScan 3D team wants to change this. The team has develope... Read more
Imagine being able to store thousands of songs and high-resolution images on data devices no bigger than a fingernail. Researchers from A*A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Enginee... Read more
Applicable in reflective colour displays, anti-counterfeiting, and high-density optical data recording Inspired by colourful stained-glass windows, researchers from Singapore have demonstrat... Read more
Image by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr John Federici, a physics professor at NJIT, sees the use of terahertz rays as a critical technology in the defense against suicide bombers... Read more