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Stephanie Slocum, Founder of Engineers Rising, Outlines the Challenges Faced by Women in Engineering
After working in the construction industry for over a decade, Stephanie Slocum founded a company with the mission of helping women to best navigate difficulties they might face while pursuing a...
Study explores the effects of bilingualism on the developing brain
Recent research in the field of neuroscience suggests that knowing and speaking more than one language could impact the speaker's brain structure. Some studies, for instance, have found differences...
A flexible microrobot that can survive almost any deformation
An International research team led by Dr. Oliver Schmidt, working at Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz) and Leibniz IFW Dresden has recently developed a microrobitic system with a wide...
A framework for indoor robot navigation among humans
In order to tackle the tasks that they are designed to complete, mobile robots should be able to navigate real world environments efficiently, avoiding humans or other obstacles in their...
LoCoQuad: An arachnoid-inspired robot for research and education purposes
Animal behaviors and the biological mechanisms underpinning them are among the greatest sources of inspiration for robotics studies. Over the past decade or so, countless research teams at...
A design strategy to produce stable and high-energy aqueous zinc-manganese dioxide batteries
The global demand for rechargeable batteries has grown exponentially over the past decade or so, as they are needed to power the increasing numbers of portable electronic devices such as smart...
Using skyrmions to create artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing
Skyrmions are ultra-stable atomic objects first discovered in real materials in 2009, which have more recently also been found also to exist at room temperatures. These unique objects have a number...
A new search for axion dark matter rules out past numerical predictions
The ADMX collaboration, a group of researchers working at universities across the U.S. and Europe, has recently performed a new search for invisible axion dark matter using a cavity haloscope and a...
Neuroscientists gather new insight about the genetic risk of developing schizophrenia
Past research in the field of neuroscience suggests that specific types of cells can contribute to the development of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. However, identifying the types...
An optically driven digital metasurface to bridge visible light and microwave communications
Coding, digital, and programmable metasurfaces are engineered surfaces that can be used to manipulate electromagnetic waves, first introduced by Prof. Tie … s colleagues in 2014. Due to their many...