Software
Dec 12, 2018
New 'Doom' levels to come in Feb. 2019 from game designer John Romero
For a 25-year-old game, "Doom" is showing plenty of life.
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Analytical Chemistry
Dec 11, 2018
Researchers develop smartphone-based ovulation test
Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital are developing an automated, low-cost tool to predict a woman's ovulation and aid in family planning. Capitalizing on advancements in several areas, including microfluidics, ...
Materials Science
Dec 11, 2018
Field-responsive mechanical metamaterials (FRMMs)
In a recent study published in Science Advances, materials scientists Julie A. Jackson and colleagues presented a new class of materials architecture called field-responsive mechanical metamaterials (FRMM). The FRMMs exhibit ...
Engineering
Dec 3, 2018
Creating digital twins of materials
To ensure the digital networking of production systems and the optimization of material-specific requirements, we need to measure, analyze and replicate the changes in material properties in a process in which "digital twins" ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 27, 2018
New technology for the first experiment with the greatest source of X-rays in the world
Flow focusing technology (also known as GDVN, Gas Dynamic Virtual Nozzle), has been one of the key elements in the success of the first experiments carried out by the European XFEL project, the greatest source of X-rays in ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 21, 2018
Capturing the frugal beauty of complex natural tessellations
Surface tessellations are an arrangement of shapes which are tightly fitted, and form repeat patterns on a surface without overlapping. Imagine the pattern of a giraffe's fur, the shell of a tortoise and the honeycomb of ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 12, 2018
Developing a 3-D collagen model to test magnetic-assisted osteogenesis in vitro
The cellular and molecular mechanisms of magnetic stimulation-based bone regeneration require further understanding at present. To evaluate the phenomenon in the lab, a three-dimensional (3-D) native collagen model was recently ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 7, 2018
Integrating land-atmosphere interactions into climate-predictive models
Ian N. Williams is a research scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he is principal investigator in a program called Land-Atmosphere Coupling and Convection in the Water Cycle.
Education
Nov 7, 2018
Making grad school possible for minorities
Eze Ahanonu was first introduced to engineering in middle school, when he attended Summer Engineering Academy at the University of Arizona. Somewhere in between designing aerodynamic car bodies in SolidWorks, 3-D printing ...
Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2018
Plans for a modular Martian base that would provide its own radiation shielding
The idea of exploring and colonizing Mars has never been more alive than it is today. Within the next two decades, there are multiple plans to send crewed missions to the Red Planet, and even some highly ambitious plans to ...
