Phys.org – Engineering

Modern “sustainable”‘ innovations in architecture are failing to slow climate change, but revisiting ancient knowledge and techniques found in traditional architecture could offer better solutions.This post was originally published on this site

Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how engineering materials, traffic control and multi-agent robots are made and utilized, thanks to research […]

Optical signal transmission can be significantly improved by limiting the wavelength of transmitted signals. Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is a technique widely used in optical communication, sensing, and laser technologies for selectively blocking certain wavelengths […]

A recent study provides evidence to help solve one of the key hurdles to large-scale manufacture of next-generation perovskite solar cells.This post was originally published on this site

Until now, when scientists created magnetic robots, their magnetization profiles were generally fixed, enabling only a specific type of shape programming capability using applied external magnetic fields. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent […]

A research team led by Dr. Jang Sung-roc at the Electrophysics Research Center of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has developed a “tailored pulsed power modulator for bias,” which can be applied in ultra-precision […]

A research team from UNIST has unveiled a novel solar desalination technology that efficiently harnesses sunlight to evaporate seawater and generate clean drinking water—completely independent of external electricity. Importantly, this advanced system addresses common issues, […]

A joint team from the University of Stuttgart in Germany and the University of Melbourne in Australia has developed a new method for the straightforward analysis of tiny nanoplastic particles in environmental samples. One needs […]

Soil liquefaction can be a major threat to the infrastructure and built environments in an earthquake-prone area. This happens due to substantial loss of soil stiffness and strength due to applied stress. Loose, moderately granulated, […]

Canada’s oil sands are an important source of energy and economic activity, but the bitumen that is extracted there takes a lot of processing and cleaning before it can be transported to refineries to be […]