Phys.org – Engineering

MIT engineers have developed a flexible, shape-sensing sheet that digitally reconstructs its own form as it bends and twists. The sensor is similar in principle to some motion-capture garments, which track a person’s physical movements […]

It’s 9:15 a.m. The wind is roaring at 110 miles per hour (177 kph); the sound is deafening. Dust swirls through the air. We are watching a single-wide manufactured home rock back and forth as […]

New work from engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows a technology normally used to spray protective coatings onto industrial parts could help address a costly problem in hypersonics: […]

Humans can move their limbs very rapidly and coordinate their movements with high precision to tackle specific manual tasks. While robots have become increasingly advanced in recent years, many of them remain less agile than […]

Assistant professor Shadfar Davoodi at the Skoltech AI Center has developed an approach for optimizing drilling in heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs that simultaneously predicts process characteristics, explains the influence of individual parameters and identifies the most […]

Heating and cooling buildings account for a large portion of global energy use. A research team in the Texas A&M University Department of Materials Science and Engineering was featured on the cover of ACS Applied […]

Scientists from Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF Group) and the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have published the results of laboratory and numerical experiments in the International Journal of […]

Decades from now, if a building is renovated and its facade panels are replaced, the removed panels could be reused on another building. But can they be removed without damage? Will anyone still know who […]

Researchers at Concordia University have found a way to use red mud, a waste product of aluminum production, to help turn low-quality clay and dredged sediment into useful ingredients for lower-carbon cement. They estimate that […]

To mitigate climate change, direct air capture of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere has emerged as an increasingly attractive option for limiting global warming. But scaling up systems to remove and safely store enough […]